Garden Blogger’s Death Day

July 31, 2009 at 10:17 pm (Death Day, Growing Tomatoes, Square Foot Gardening)
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Today is Garden Blogger’s Death Day with Kate and Crew over at Gardening Without Skills.    Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I don’t have any deaths to post about.  Thought I was going to for a minute. 

I like to train my tomatoes to a single stem, but I figured this year I’d try letting one grow the way it wanted to grow.   After it sent out three branches, I couldn’t handle it any more, and I started pinching out all the suckers again.  Well, right in front of the tomato was the four borage plants (four in one square foot).  They were shading the tomato, and since I like to eat tomatoes more than I care for the taste of the borage leaves, I decided to pull the borage plants up.  When I got to the biggest one, I bent down and started pulling.  I was thinking as I was pulling it that, gee, this one has deeper roots than the other three. Maybe that’s why it’s bigger than they are.  As soon as I pulled it out of the ground, I realized that it was the tomato plant…the tomato plant loaded with little tomatoes.  I stuck it back in the ground and watered it …and watered it…and watered it.

Oh, wait a minute.  I just thought of something.  Let me go out and take a picture.

(Me going outside in the dark taking a picture of dead plants…neighbors wondering what my problem is)

That “watered…and watered…and watered” reminded me that I forgot to water this:07-31-09 (6)

These are some lettuce plants I transplanced and stuck in the shade in anticipation of the weather warming up.  I noticed the plants were starting to bolt, and then I kinda forgot about them.  They died due to my negligence.  Call the Plant Police.  I’m guilty of neglect.  Throw me in jail and throw away the key.

Maybe I can get time served since I’m taking good care of the tomatoes’ siblings and their cousins, the cucumbers.

(Today’s Harvest)07-31-09 (5)

Happy Gardening!!!

Toni’s grasshopper pic just reminded me of something.

Is this a grasshopper?07-26-09 (26)

Now…Happy Gardening!!!

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The Peas Have Perished

June 30, 2009 at 5:04 am (Death Day, Growing Peas)
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In keeping with Garden Bloggers’ Death Day hosted by Kate and Crew over at Gardening Without Skills I give you …

The Peas05-30-09 (11)March 16, 2009 – June 21, 2009

We’re saddened to have to announce that The Peas have passed on.  The Peas started life under trying circumstances, but through it all they persevered.  It is said, “That which does not kill you makes you stronger,” and despite being exposed to snow and freezing winds and even a hail storm, The Peas grew strong and tall.06-21-09 (14)

However, looks can be deceiving.  In recent times, The Peas had stopped producing their beautiful blooms.  The plant was in a virtual coma and the outlook for The Peas to recover and start producing proflic pods of succulent snow peas or snap peas was bleak.  The hot weather had taken its toll on the poor Peas.  So, on June 21, 2009 the decision was made to harvest the last few pods that The Peas had to give of  themselves, and the plug was pulled.

The Peas will live on, however.  The bodies were donated to the compost pile.  In a little while, the spirit of The Peas will be scattered throughout the whole garden…the circle of life continues.06-23-09 (14)

(OR)

I get a whole lot more string beans per plant compared to peas, so out they went so I can plant some more beans.

Happy Gardening!!!

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Garden Blogger’s Death Day

June 1, 2009 at 9:22 pm (Death Day, Square Foot Gardening)
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Kate over at Gardening Without Skills is hosting a Garden Blogger’s Death Day.  I’m willing to share my dirty little secrets…so secret that I have no postmortem photographic evidence.

So, here goes.

My tree rose…06-24-08 (7)

…DEAD!!!  Didn’t make it through the winter.  Nor did the rosemary…

12-12-08_Rosemary

…the sage…12-11-08 (3)

…or the fruit tree.09-15-08 (2)

The label said that this plant was cold hardy…08-25-08

What a lie.  DEAD!!!

Everything I started in the soil blocks that started out so well…04-06-09

DEAD!!!   No, put out of their misery…euthanized.  I’ll own up to this one.  Radishes were not the best choice to start with soil blocks.  Not a single one of them made a bottom after they were transplanted.  (The flowers that were transplanted into cups and later transplanted into the garden are alive and well).

Then there’s the radishes, lettuce and spinach I planted where I usually plant the elephant ear…05-17-09 (11)

…this is the one and only radish that made a bottom before they went to seed.   Euthanized.

Oh, my goodness.  I’m a latent plant murderer!!!

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