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it’s hard for me to blog wen i’m home from the hospital, have chemo brain and family staying with us to help. so, this morning i snapped a bunch of garden pics for my twitter feed. check those out here and follow me on twitter, subscribe to or watch my twitter feed, “tweet, tweet” on the sidebar when you’re waiting for me to blog.
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dear readers, i know you are just bubbling with excitement at the prospect of a new mysetery melon. behold!
what will she be? a watermelon, perhaps?
mystery solved. those are pumpkins growing from the compost pile! more specifically, those are last thanksgiving’s floral arrangements. i’m hoping they are at least the white pumpkins we used. so, there’s still a little mystery left.
it’s a good thing that these are doing well, because all of the organic, heirloom varieties i planted in the garden-with-crappy-soil are floundering and being attacked by squash bugs. i think i might try more hot pepper wax spray on those pests.
the neighbors are of course full of helpful chemical poison suggestions, but as you know, that’s not how we roll. any non-toxic ideas? and nothing involving soapy water buckets and early morning bug drowning, please. that is definitely not how we roll.
let’s just take a break from all of this woe-is-me chemo business for a second. remember that garden i planted? i snuck out to have a look at it today. the “garden soil” we had delivered is pretty useless, so things have been off to a slow start in there. over by, and from, the compost pile, however, things are much happier! and by “things,” i mean plants.
i have a mystery melon growing from the geobin. i’m guessing watermelon, but what do i know? it’s something we ate, that’s all i can be sure of. maybe a cantaloupe? i’ve done zero research, but perhaps a kind reader will point me in the right direction. (i should post more photos of the developing fruit and flowers, huh?)
the trellis that is intended to hide our trash bin is home to a few heirloom tomatoes. i’m really excited about the tomatoes. free tomatoes are a good thing.
one of the greatest things about organic gardening + toddlers is that some nights you find a d’avignon radish in nuggetdaddy’s bathroom drawer.
whatchoo talkin’ ’bout?