Last week our pea plants outgrew the supports that we built, stretching out much higher than we imagined they would, and toppled over. I thought the plants were going to be in trouble and was trying to figure out a way to increase the support and push the plants back up. They were much too [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Let it Pea
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2007 on June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The peas tumble 4 ya
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2007 on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The peas have many, many flowers on them this week. They’ve been looking really good, up until now …
The plants outgrew the supports in a major way this past weekend, while we were away. Today, they toppled over, and have all but broken. It’s hard to make it out in the photo, but that’s them [...]
Another caterpillar, and a tomato lesson
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2007 on June 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We spotted this guy on a dill plant. I think he’s the big brother (or mother, or father) of the one I photographed last week. I took a few good pictures of him but then spotted a foamy egg sack looking thing a little ways below him on the same plant, so I pulled him [...]
Caterpillar, my Deer
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2007 on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a very rainy few days, so the weekend was pretty much a wash as far as getting any actual work down out there. This morning it seems to have let up and I managed to get some photos without becoming too saturated.
The above shot is the forest of dill that we’ve got going [...]
