Rantings & Ravings

Hummingbirds in our Garden

Our Kitchen Scrap Garden is really taking off. The celery, potatoes, and romaine are putting out flowers, and ginger is getting another leaf. If Farmer Google is right, potato flowers should mean that the plants are making potatoes under all that soil, to be harvested after flowers and most of plant have died off. […]

Monarch in the Herb Garden

We see the first glimpse of red on the tomatoes. The eggplant is going full force, even after a sneak attack of little green caterpillars (who have been summarily evicted). A couple of bell peppers are ripe. We had to stake up the jalapeño plant, it fell over from the weight of the peppers.

We’re […]

**Week 5** - Tomatoes are appearing!

Our first eggplant has set up, and the mini-pepper plant is more peppers than plant. The windowsill gardening continues.

The space that looked so empty just over a month ago is full now.

It was scary to take those first snips, but the herbs have settled in nicely and we needed a little something to go with our lunch. Parsley and chives are the first harvest of our garden

It started like this….

In the main plot: 4 tomato plants (Sweet Million, Early Girl, Indigo Rose, Better Boy) 2 bell pepper (Better Belle, Lunchbox Red mini), 1 eggplant (Millionaire), and 1 jalapeño.

In the herb planter: parsley, thyme, tarragon, rosemary, chives, and not showing yet is cilantro (planted some coriander seeds out of the spice cabinet).

One […]