Painting my garden

[Ratatouille]

I can probably harvest this year. Might have to let the fruit ripen indoors if the summer is slow. The plant is perennial, so if you want, it can be overwintered as well.

In your climate it would grow huge, being able to leave it outside You should.try it one day.

The other is appelwortel indeed, I'm used to calling it yacon. Do you know it? I eat the tubers raw a lot, but roasting them is delicious too.

 

[Ratatouille]

The scaloped tubetongue I'm trying to sow for the first time ever is playing hard to get. I know my plants that need light to germinate, but apparently this one needs darkness to germinate? And once it's up, it needs light.

I read somewhere you need to cover the pot with something for compelete darkness and then give it light after it comes up. It feels unnatural though. In nature, there's sunlight at least a few hours of the day. Right?

So now I have these very tiny see-through seedlings of about a millimeter each. Not quite sure I'm doing this right, but we'll see what comes of them. I'll give them more light now. Maybe tweak my germination method if I plan on sowing another round of them.

 

[ahayastani]

In your climate it would grow huge, being able to leave it outside You should.try it one day.

Tamarillo is grown alot here in the hillside country. I'm not sure it will thrive here in the lowland tropics...

The other is appelwortel indeed, I'm used to calling it yacon. Do you know it? I eat the tubers raw a lot, but roasting them is delicious too.

It was on my growing list for this year but then found out there were no more tubers available It will be for another time

 

[Ratatouille]

Gardening is sowing 10 red broad beans, have them all rot, then sow ten again and have two germinate. Still, I planted them out in the garden. They should be good for one of those miniature meals of two beans each. Is that a thing already?

It was almost springlike day on the allotment. My field with different kinds of leek is coming along quite nice.

Lovage is joining the party again as well.

As is my edible daylillie.

My neigbour has a new weed killer. Quite a cute one..

Then there's the potted plants you sowed, forgot to label, put somewhere in a corner, forgot about and then discover again. Does anyone have any idea what this might be? My guess it's a perennial non-edible.

Sowed some green peas that I really like.

And protected them from the doves who are eyeing my garden already.

My 'scurvey-grass' is flowering. I leave some for the winter to harvest seeds from. Really like this stuff mixed in my salads.

The day was still not finished, so I went to the garage to sow some more. Leaving on my muddy boots, 'cause I'm bad-ass. (Yes, I know, the bar is quite low.)

I sowed two types of dill, an aster and a few tests with old seed, basil leaf and papalo.

I might sow the tomatillo as well in a bit, but I need to find out how to make room for them in the heated propagators...

All while I sat on my new chair. A Craigslist find of 5 euro. (It's not allowed in the house says Mr. Ratat.)

I think that about sums up my Sunday.

 

[Ratatouille]

Remember my translucent seedlings? Transformers, that's what they are:

 

[Tinkerbelle]

capsicum interloperium

 

[Ratatouille]

The day nobody thought would ever come. I'm culling seedlings and binning them.

I had a strict rule of no more than one tomato plant per variety. I have four of most now (some even five) and I still had seedlings left. They left me no choice.

 

[Nulle]

Today this must be your song ;-)

 

[Ratatouille]

So very fitting.