Finally a day that I can spend at home alone, as a stay at home mum, it is surprising how little time I have at home with nowhere to be, though my youngest spawn is ten. Maybe I'll spend some of my day catching up on laundry, tidying, and dusting, but there will be blissful uninterrupted reading. Yesterday I arrived home in the afternoon to Kalayna Price's Grave Witch in the mailbox, I bought it on an amazon recommendation, a bit like genius on iTunes. I think it serendipitous, this book arrives just in time for my first day off in almost forever, a perfect break from hectic reality.
Because I have the time, I thought I would take some photos of what's growing in my garden, firstly, because I'm proud of my first attempt at growing our food. And secondly, because it's great to have a comparison for later on.
These are my dwarf butter beans just over two weeks ago, and today.
Zucchini, These little babies are going to make me very happy!
My tangled tomatoes, I mistakenly planted 9 of them very close together, and next to the broccoli which is apparently not a good thing. Underneath them is my basil, I have read that not only do they taste great together, but growing them together is beneficial as well.
This is the melon of some sort, found the day I started to plan out my veggie patch, and the day before I was to plant my pumpkins.
This is what it looked like, and I, thinking I was an expert on such things, was so sure that this surprise plant, growing from nothing I'd ever planted, was in fact a pumpkin. I'm glad I didn't rely on that, knowing now it is a melon, or I wouldn't have bought and planted the pumpkins in time. I moved it from where it was and planted it in the newly turned, weeded, manured, and mulched bed, and brought three new pumpkin plants to plant with it.
the day after I moved it, I was sure I'd killed it...
A few weeks later it looked like this and now, it's probably the happiest plant in my yard... I am happy to hear any theories on what melon this may be, Any! The curiosity is killing me. My son Micheal is hoping for rockmelon, and has already staked his claim on the fruit, I'm thinking honey dew.
The celery, It seems to be the slowest growing thing in my backyard, I keep looking impatiently at those perfect little stalks with a predatory eye.
Our green mignonette lettuce, these have been adding some green to the spawns sandwiches and rolls.
Lastly, my cabbage seedlings.
The white butterflies have been busy on these tiny leaves too, I'd better start picking those eggs off.
This is not the whole of what's growing in the garden, and the other things will have their turn too, but I think this post is past long enough, I can ramble on forever about my veg, so I'll stop for now. Plus I hear the rubbish truck, and am desperate to take out the school holiday build up of recycling.
'til next post,
Bek.
This is your first attempt at growing food - but it's looking so great. I'll be interested to hear what your melon is - any melon is a good melon. I don't think it's warm enough for me to have any success with one though. I grew celery for the first time last year. It is slow but a fantastic plant to grow 'cos you can just cut a stalk off here and there and it keeps growing. Perfect. Whenever I buy a whole celery it goes droopy in the fridge.
ReplyDeleteHey Veggiegobbler and thankyou! I am really proud of how they are growing,almost every indoor plant I've had has died, I didn't think things would go as well as they are. I hear you with celery, and I am counting this as the thing I learnt today, I had no idea you could harvest it like that, now I'll always have crisp and crunchy celery.
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