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May. 16th, 2010 08:05 pmUgh. Sulfur dioxide does not belong in my lungs. (Yes, all the windows are open now. I support chemistry in the apartment. But we need a hood.)
The icon is of eggplant that I had growing in a strawberry pot (there were also strawberries) when I lived on the barge. It's not of the eggplants I have growing right now, as the light is just all wrong to get a decent picture of them, but it almost could be - they're really quite similar. (Um, yeah, I was going take a picture of the eggplant when the light got better, but I ated it.)
Yes, I have eggplant. A lot of solanums can be overwintered, so in addition to our by now venerable peppers (Kendrick's pepper tree currently has eighteen full sized peppers in various states of ripeness, and several smaller ones and even more flowers) I overwintered one tomato and two eggplants. And now one of my eggplants has one full sized eggplant - which might be eaten tonight - and three smaller ones. The other eggplant seems to be producing only male flowers at the moment... but it's the smalled one, anyway. And the tomato has many flower clusters, and is frankly doing better than I'd expect (tomatoes don't last indefinitely) and I have a ginormous bell pepper which should be ready soon. And all the herbs are leafed out.
I planted beans today. I also finally got around to checking the worm bin, which I have been neglecting... um, for a while now. I looked in, and saw a bunch of kind of wet looking dirt, and figured I was probably too late. But just a little more poking revealed worms. This is one of the reasons I'm so fond of invertebrates. You can neglect them terribly, and most of the time when you check in on them, expecting to find their corpses, they'll just be sitting there, starting to wonder where the food is. (I had a bunch of kale that both K and I had neglected, thinking it belonged to the other... and a bunch of dried leaves. The worm bin is well amended now.)
So, two more projects and my immediately garden plans will be complete. First, I want to work compost into my big flat planter thing, and plant summer squash. I have not yet succeeded at growing summer squash here - I keep succeeding at growing winter squash instead. I think there was a seed mix up. Anyhow, I bought new seeds and this year - squash! (It always befuddles me when I hear people say that they have too much zucchini. How does this happen? - Mind you, I think the answer is that I like zucchini more than more people.)
The other project might take more arranging, and yet I'm even more excited about it.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xiphias mentioned that he'd gotten a fig tree, and I fell into fig nostalgia. And then I type "bonsai fig" into google. And yeah, a lot of those are other ficuses - but there are bonsai figs with fruit. Oh, yeah. I'm not sure if it will be properly bonsai'd mind... But I'm getting me a fig.
Oh, and to anyone who missed this bit - all of this is in our apartment, indoors, without so much as a window box. (And at the moment without supplemental light, my full spectrum CF having burnt out.)
The icon is of eggplant that I had growing in a strawberry pot (there were also strawberries) when I lived on the barge. It's not of the eggplants I have growing right now, as the light is just all wrong to get a decent picture of them, but it almost could be - they're really quite similar. (Um, yeah, I was going take a picture of the eggplant when the light got better, but I ated it.)
Yes, I have eggplant. A lot of solanums can be overwintered, so in addition to our by now venerable peppers (Kendrick's pepper tree currently has eighteen full sized peppers in various states of ripeness, and several smaller ones and even more flowers) I overwintered one tomato and two eggplants. And now one of my eggplants has one full sized eggplant - which might be eaten tonight - and three smaller ones. The other eggplant seems to be producing only male flowers at the moment... but it's the smalled one, anyway. And the tomato has many flower clusters, and is frankly doing better than I'd expect (tomatoes don't last indefinitely) and I have a ginormous bell pepper which should be ready soon. And all the herbs are leafed out.
I planted beans today. I also finally got around to checking the worm bin, which I have been neglecting... um, for a while now. I looked in, and saw a bunch of kind of wet looking dirt, and figured I was probably too late. But just a little more poking revealed worms. This is one of the reasons I'm so fond of invertebrates. You can neglect them terribly, and most of the time when you check in on them, expecting to find their corpses, they'll just be sitting there, starting to wonder where the food is. (I had a bunch of kale that both K and I had neglected, thinking it belonged to the other... and a bunch of dried leaves. The worm bin is well amended now.)
So, two more projects and my immediately garden plans will be complete. First, I want to work compost into my big flat planter thing, and plant summer squash. I have not yet succeeded at growing summer squash here - I keep succeeding at growing winter squash instead. I think there was a seed mix up. Anyhow, I bought new seeds and this year - squash! (It always befuddles me when I hear people say that they have too much zucchini. How does this happen? - Mind you, I think the answer is that I like zucchini more than more people.)
The other project might take more arranging, and yet I'm even more excited about it.
xiphias mentioned that he'd gotten a fig tree, and I fell into fig nostalgia. And then I type "bonsai fig" into google. And yeah, a lot of those are other ficuses - but there are bonsai figs with fruit. Oh, yeah. I'm not sure if it will be properly bonsai'd mind... But I'm getting me a fig.Oh, and to anyone who missed this bit - all of this is in our apartment, indoors, without so much as a window box. (And at the moment without supplemental light, my full spectrum CF having burnt out.)
