Remember last week when I said the peas were about over? Well not so much. The vines look terrible and spotty and brown but the peas just keep coming!
There are a few new things this week...
1) As the fruit was ending, I pruned the currants and made that area nice and neat:
Now I just need to figure out how to dress up the space under the bushes. I'm thinking it might be an excellent place for summer lettuce and a backing trellis of brown-eyed susan vine.
2) I made a new compost pile:
The black bin was not cutting it. Not only was it woefully undersized for the amount of organic waste in my home, but nothing was decomposing in there. I noticed that the pile of old hay stacked up next to it was rotting faster so I made a big pile out of both, and enclosed it in a 4x4 foot wall of cinder block.
3) We have garlic:
The stalks have been getting kinda fall-overy, so I decided to see what state they were in, and Voila! there is a giant head of garlic where a single clove once was... like magic!
4) Imagine my surprise to find this hibiscus bush blooming behind our garage:
I thought it was a tropical plant but it seems to be doing quite well next to the alley.
5) The corn is blooming!
Yesterday the neighbor's landlord came over to mow their grass and commented how surprising it is to see corn growing in the city, and I noticed that the flower had started to open. We are well past knee-high and it's not even July 4 yet. :)
I posted more pics of blooms and tiny fruits growing in our garden in our photo gallery.
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You are a gardening machine!! Looks great. Glad you're having fun with this. :)
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