Remember how small the onions were when we planted them? Now they're a half a foot tall!
It's been a battle against the grass Jona's landlord seeded in the front plot. He didn't mean any harm. We've done a ton of weeding in the areas with the onions and upcoming swiss chard, basil, beets, and spinach. We're not sure exactly where Erica seeded the above, so we're waiting for things to sprout before encroaching on the space.
This evening, we painted a table bright pink. But more importantly, we purchased and planted the following from Gethsemane:
1. Blondkopfehen tomato. It will produce adorably round, small, yellow fruits. Heirloom variety, so we're going to save seed.
Blond = in terracotta pot, center
2. Green Zebra tomato. It will produce smallish green striped tomatoes. Cool, right?
Green Zebra on left, Thai Hot peppers on top, Blond on right, basil on bottom.
3. Rhubarb. We won't harvest this summer, but hopefully will get a nice bunch next summer and in the future.
yum yum yummmmm. Also note the cute signs in background.
4. Spider Plant. We have not named it yet. In the running are: Principal Patty, Zanadoo, Tarantula, and Maggie. No image yet, but it's for the indoors. We hope the cats will enjoy it as much as these cats:
5. Delicata squash. THE squash-fries squash! Probably Erica's favorite squash ever. Hopefully it produces. This was our splurge at Gethsemane...couldn't resist...
It's a winter squash though so we're going to have to wait a few months.
Additionally, we transplanted marigolds along the corner of the rhubarb, seeded sweet peas (only 6 though, free from the Academy for Global Citizenship, a charter school in Chicago), and planted the rest of the onion babies.
JoJo found this little plant growing in the front plot and rescued it. She thinks it might be related to the backyard's adorable purple, thorny bush.
Joanna seeded catgrass for the inside, to distract the cat-sicles from the spider plant. We also discovered a compost pile under the front porch which is sweeeeeeeet. And we built a border around the garden with bricks and rocks and pieces of wood!
The backyard looks nice, though the lettuces are slow-going. We only see the Oakleaf sprouts so far. We'll survive without more lettuce though, as Jona's been getting tons in her CSA share from Tomato Mountain Farm. The beets are getting nibbled on, not sure why. We thinned a bit of the mustard spinach, which is growing pretty leggy (but tasty). Attempts at transplanting volunteer squash sprouts failed.
Forefront: beets. Background: mustard spinach. Doesn't get a whole lot of sun back here anymore because the ginko tree regrew its leaves. boooo.
Regular spinach is not thriving, but is growing steadily. Parsley sprouts are adorbs and fancy cuz of their frills. We love it!
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