Joining Amanda at Soulemama for a (container) Garden Update.
Everyday there is growth in our container garden. A new surprise. We have cucumbers, Oh! how we will have cucumbers- they're trying to take over the porch! I love it! And a mexi pepper. Snow peas, and garden beans. Flowers on the tomato plants. Little buds where we think brussel sprouts will sprout. (Our new experiment crop, we're unsure of everything this these. Where the sprouts will grow, how tall the plants should really be, and why it seems 6 of the plants have stopped growing. But it's always fun to try something new.) The lettuce died off, sad. It's been in the 90s for the past week, and it's just too hot for it. Keeping everything watered wasn't a problem, for a bit, a two week stretch of rain, gave the plants a needed boost. But now we're struggling to keep up, having to bump watering up to twice a day.
Soon we'll be eating more than just a few tasty peas and beans straight off the plant. We'll have tomatoes to add to our salads, and more than enough cucumbers for pickles (a favorite here) galore!
(Top from today. Below two days ago)
(top today, below two days ago)
And now for my long awaited Rice Update. (Joining along with Rachel of Clean) I've been waiting, and waiting for mold to grow on the Hate jar to do an update. It got to the point where all the jars were just pushed out of the way, and we forgot about them. No Love, or Hate going into them. Oops. But Rachel posted a reminder on her fb page, and I got to wondering.
We have mold!
But it's very colorful mold. Orange! And it's started growing in the Love jar too.
So about 6 weeks in, and there's mold in all the jars. Experiment complete. We may try again in the winter months, as I think the weather here played a part in it.
Read about the experiment here and here. And Rachel's original post.
Naughty cat likes to sleep in the plants.
I think there is so much that you can do with a container garden! I think that my plants always seem to do their best in containers...and not so well in the ground. I don't know why that is...probably all the weeds that seem to creep up that I just can't get to weeding :-)
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