First harvest!
Jul. 24th, 2010 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mouse_rants...such as it is. I tried planting garlic, but I think I planted it at the wrong time - the instructions say to harvest it about now, as the leaves start to die....can you have garlic scallions?
guess I'll use them as green garlic, and see what I think. I did leave a couple of plants in, guess I will let them go through the summer, and see what happens.
Have many (albeit small) tomatoes: Early Girl
and Jubilee
and something called San Diego, but it's in the back corner getting cozy with the nasturtium. Harvested the Jubilee, a San Diego and about 4 Early Girls.
This is my Romanesco, which miraculously has formed a head
although it seems to be thinking about flowering again. I'd like to let it go a bit longer, to see if it fills in a bit - we will see.
Speaking of flowers, I also have what I though was a red romaine plant, which has bolted and bloomed, but I took what leaves I could off of it and had them as part of a salad for dinner. They actually tasted like mustard greens - quite spicy, which actually worked really well with the salad. Harvesting them also helped identify what it is that is eating holes in the leaves of things - little teeny tiny almost transparent baby snails. Which I was going to give a tour of the sewage system, but amazingly, the ones I washed off crawled back out of the drain, so I rescued them and put them out on the lawn (well, I really can't have them wandering around the house).
Tidyed things up a bit today, and moved some things that have been hanging around in nursery pots into more substantial ones - the sun came out just a bit in the afternoon, enough to convince me I could do the work without freezing to death. I guess I shouldn't whine about the weather, when it is hot enough elsewhere it's a wonder there hasn't been a plague of heat-stroke (although I can think of a couple of Senators I wouldn't mind that happening to) - but really, this is _not_ why I live in San Diego.
guess I'll use them as green garlic, and see what I think. I did leave a couple of plants in, guess I will let them go through the summer, and see what happens.
Have many (albeit small) tomatoes: Early Girl
and Jubilee
and something called San Diego, but it's in the back corner getting cozy with the nasturtium. Harvested the Jubilee, a San Diego and about 4 Early Girls.
This is my Romanesco, which miraculously has formed a head
although it seems to be thinking about flowering again. I'd like to let it go a bit longer, to see if it fills in a bit - we will see.
Speaking of flowers, I also have what I though was a red romaine plant, which has bolted and bloomed, but I took what leaves I could off of it and had them as part of a salad for dinner. They actually tasted like mustard greens - quite spicy, which actually worked really well with the salad. Harvesting them also helped identify what it is that is eating holes in the leaves of things - little teeny tiny almost transparent baby snails. Which I was going to give a tour of the sewage system, but amazingly, the ones I washed off crawled back out of the drain, so I rescued them and put them out on the lawn (well, I really can't have them wandering around the house).
Tidyed things up a bit today, and moved some things that have been hanging around in nursery pots into more substantial ones - the sun came out just a bit in the afternoon, enough to convince me I could do the work without freezing to death. I guess I shouldn't whine about the weather, when it is hot enough elsewhere it's a wonder there hasn't been a plague of heat-stroke (although I can think of a couple of Senators I wouldn't mind that happening to) - but really, this is _not_ why I live in San Diego.
