Things looked pretty dicey for the first month or two; we had SO. MUCH. RAIN. Happily, nothing was drowned completely (or overcome by mushrooms) and, in comparison, my plants are looking pretty good now!
Despite my son's best efforts, I have managed to enjoy two red tomatoes from this plant this summer.
Happily, our many repeated conversations about waiting and tomatoes needing to turn red seem to have taken hold; there are four more green ones hanging there now! Now that the danger of early harvest seems to have passed (mostly), we'll see if the weather holds out nice and warm long enough for them to ripen.
However, there was not much to be done to save my poor dill. I noticed a few little worms that eventually grew into caterpillars, and that lead to my dill getting munched to smithereens. I guess one little plant can't sustain *14* caterpillars. On the upside, I learned a fair amount about these little critters. I'm pretty sure they were Swallowtail caterpillars, but that's only a guess 'cuz they didn't have the decency to stick around and make their cocoons where we could enjoy them. Nope, they dined and dashed.
The flowers that are planted in the last square of the planter are ones that Townshend and I nurtured from seeds. That marigold he planted at the zoo, and the poppies I found at the dollar section of Target. We had three poppies, but only one plant survived the transplanting. Still, they are growing impressively! I've saved some marigold seeds for next year so we can try again. Have you ever seen a marigold that enormous? It's like a marigold bush!
As for the vertical portion of my garden, it's done pretty well too. Here it is in June:
And, here it is more recently:
All in all, not a bad year! As always, just enough happy results to make me want to try again next year and some new ideas to try out.
1 comment:
Yay! Homegrown tomatoes at your house, too! That little city garden looks like it's done quite nicely for a first year garden. Next year ought to be great!
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