Garden Update, June 2008

Maybe by this time next month, we'll have been able to harvest something! There's lots of pictures this time, so I won't waste any more time with this "talking."

Overview:


Herb garden. Planted the peppermint in a sunken pot, transplanted the yarrow, and bought another lavender plant since the previous post about the perennial herb garden. We hope to collect viable seeds or propagate cuttings from all these herbs so we won't have to keep buying from nurseries.

Some of our pole beans have taken off. This one is doing the best and soon won't have anywhere to go.

Closer look at the bush beans (French green and butter).

Cucumber, and serrano pepper to the right. There are also two basil shoots in the serrano's pot, but you can't see it well.

Cuttings from rosemary, last year's spearmint, and this year's peppermint.

From left to right: planted some more nasturtiums, random beans from our cupboard, green onions, nasturtium.

The (mostly) nightshade section. We have immature peppers, as well as tomatoes forming on the Homestead and Roma varieties.

These overwintered carrots have been in the making for a looooong time. They've been in the ground since November or December 2007, I think.

*sighs* Harmony and I swallowed our pride and bought two pepper plants (probably courtesy of Monsanto or some other agricultural bully) from the nursery. This was prompted by Harmony having to pay around $3 for a green pepper the other day. Of the 6(?) sweet pepper seedlings we grew and planted, only one has survived. We have since planted more of our own seeds, hoping for a late harvest.
To rub salt in our wounded pride, both of the new pepper plants are hybrids. BUT, we take comfort in the fact that if these plants produce even the equivalent of 3 grocery store bell peppers, they will have been worth the purchase price.