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A selection of floral and human erotics for the first Sexy Flowers Calendar in the universe, scale figure installation
Facing west along our balcony. Plants are starting to fill in, and the colour scheme is coming together.
Bethesda, Maryland, July 2018. Vorlon Russian tomato. I started germinating pepper seeds inside under wide bandwidth shop lights on New Years Day. Later in January and February I also started basil, lettuces, parsley, radicchio, cabbage, tomatoes and some other good stuff. Probably because of heavy Spring rains we started harvesting squash, tomatoes, onions, shallots, garlic and even peppers some weeks earlier than usual. We're losing some produce to our animal neighbors but we still have plenty for our own needs and to share with the folks who wander down our block.
Top row, L-R: French beans 'Cupidon', Asturian tree cabbage, Brussels sprouts, golden beetroot (just coming up), [in pots] climbing French beans, [in terracotta pot] peppermint.
Middle row: French beans 'Aquilon', Asturian tree cabbage (and a dove feather), pointed cabbage 'Greyhound', empty, pea shoots, [in pots] climbing French beans.
Bottom row: French beans 'Minidor', calendula (just coming up), lettuce, land cress 'Belle Isle', [in box] Brussels sprouts, nasturtium.
Still awaiting a clear yes or no on the grow-bag. The mint pot will be sunk into the soil as soon as A can be persuaded to come and dig the hole (not because it's going to be difficult, just on principle - he's going to be the one drinking mint tea all summer).
It's chilly today and forecast to go down to about 2C (including wind chill) overnight, so I'll be going out to cover my plot with fleece this evening. This week I noticed that my gardening book says to plant French beans out at the end of May - oops.
Should I open a sweepstake on when I'll fall off the edge of the planter while taking the weekly photo? The plank gave a definite wobble today...
This gives you the general idea of what the garden started out looking like this spring, and what it looks like now, at the beginning of fall. There is some variance in the viewpoint because 1) the end photos were shot with my slr, and the center with my phone, and 2) because I wasn't really planning on putting them together, or I would have planned better. It's still fun for me to see how much can happen in a season.
The weather's turned damp and a little chilly. I've only deployed the fleece once, though, and it was probably unnecessary. A few aphids have discovered my beans and yesterday I encountered a solitary snail lunching on my pea shoots.
Surprise of the week was arriving this morning to find the neighbouring plot, which was yesterday still untouched, transformed into... well... a kind of copy of mine! I still don't know who the gardener is, but they've planted some raspberries which had better not invade my half of the box... Still, good to have a fellow SFG experimenter around - I'd had a few comments about my plot being "very organised" and was wondering if anyone knew it was SFG rather than OCD!
Top row, L-R: French beans 'Cupidon', Asturian tree cabbage, Brussels sprouts plus baby kohl rabi, golden beetroot, climbing French beans 'Cherokee Trail of Tears' (gave up waiting for the council's ruling on grow-bags), peppermint.
Middle row: French beans 'Aquilon', Asturian tree cabbage, pointed cabbage 'Greyhound', fleece + rocks, pea shoots, (in pot) ailing bean plant and (in box) Brussels sprouts.
Bottom row: French beans 'Minidor', calendula 'Indian Prince', lettuce red iceberg, land cress 'Belle Isle', empty, nasturtium.
If you had week 4 in the sweepstake you get a refund because I cheated - my mum was there to make sure I didn't fall off the planter today.