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Its growing!

Published Sunday, May 08, 2005 by lecram sinun | E-mail this post

Sunday. Ahhh… I really needed this 3 day weekend. If for nothing else, to keep some of my sanity intact. The rest of my sanity gave me the pink slip years ago.

There are tomato plants budding all over my vege garden. Little terrorist tomato underground holdovers from last years crop. It’s both cool and annoying. Annoying because they are cropping up all over the place – the random chaos of nature I suppose. I’ll probably pot most of them and give them away to some of my apartment living friends.

vege garden 05

The rest of the garden is taking off quite nicely. With the recent unexpected rains the growth rate has accelerated. Have to keep an eye on things... pretty much had a jungle out here last year... an edible one... but a jungle nevetheless. Lets see… I have cilantro, Fresno chilies, burpless cucumbers, sweet peppers, zucchinis, and 2 types of tomatoes. A good salsa or gazpacho garden. Should be getting the first of the produce in June or so.

11 Responses to “Its growing!”

Anonymous on May 09, 2005 11:19 AM

Hmmm...is that a little garden table the glass and plastic cups are standing on, and a chair (or two) that's taken up residence next to your patch? Or just my wishful imagination?
lecram sinun on May 09, 2005 11:51 AM

The garden table is actually a stool... but everything else is right on the mark.
Lelly on May 09, 2005 2:50 PM

Ooo bugger! Seem to have posted that last comment under my real name! (and yes the cherry tree is quite old now, thank you very much!)
lecram sinun on May 09, 2005 3:02 PM

Yeah... looks like you'll have to vacate the batcave now, Cuz. Ahhh... cilantro is what we use to call "chinese parsley" back home... top left of the pic.

Hey Blith... I concur that its quite nice watching the greens grow in summer with a drink in hand. We usually slurp the "devil's brew"-- half gallon of cheap white wine, splashed with fresh lime juice and a half bottle of voddie... stirred and served with ice. (in the old days it was a version of the "california cooler")
airplanejayne on May 09, 2005 3:13 PM

Lecram,
so..how'd ya' grow that beautiful wine glass on the stable? Every time I try to grow them, they break.
But seriously, your garden looks good. I've got fruit and nut trees out at my place, but the birds always get more than I do.
:)
lecram sinun on May 09, 2005 4:31 PM

APJ, wine glasses can only be grown on a stable.
airplanejayne on May 09, 2005 5:08 PM

ohhh, so THAT'S my problem....stability....hmmmmm
ScarySquirrelMan on May 09, 2005 7:15 PM

i could have done without a picture of your stool.
vertebrate on May 10, 2005 1:59 AM

Let's back up a bit. Burpless cucumbers? You all know about these? I couldn't even dream of creating such an unlikely image. How life outstrips art.

Oh, and cilantro/chinese parsley. What would that be in England?

Other than that, how nice it would be to sit looking at your vegetable garden, drinking something corrosive.
lecram sinun on May 10, 2005 8:40 AM

Vert,
I started growing the burpless about 4 years ago. Apart from the fact that they taste great... the average size is between 12-14 inches - real screamers!
Anonymous on May 12, 2005 9:04 AM

I like a good burp when I eat my cucumbers.....