Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2006 on August 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The garden is officially out of control. I missed last week’s update because the rain kept me from being able to take photos. This picture pretty well sums up the state of things this week. Yes, that’s a rotting tomato, and yes that’s a big ole’ slug feasting on it.
The squash plants are pretty well [...]
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2006 on August 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
All those little guys from last week’s squash photo are almost ready to pick. Some of them might get harvested tonight, some tomorrow.
Here’s a close-up of the fungus that’s spreading over the squash plants. I have no idea what it is and haven’t had time to research possible remedies, but it bums me out to [...]
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2006 on August 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve finally got usable chili peppers, and we’ve picked two small bowls worth already for use in pickles and some salsa. As it turns out, hot peppers from the garden are much hotter than what we’ve been buying in the store, and the oils linger on your hands for much longer.
Super Chili #1 looks good.
The [...]
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2006 on August 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Actually, a hard rain did fall. Last night, for about twenty minutes tops. The dinky little powerful storm managed to fell a pepper plant, shown above, and …
… totally beat up on the poor squash plants, breaking limbs and hammering the leaves and just generally making puddles and wetness for the leaves to lie in [...]
