Friday, June 11, 2010

Garden Update

Here is a little garden update. All of my little plants that I was growing inside have died. I think they stopped growing because they were too close together, did not have enough sun, and got root rot (or so I am told).

So I replanted new seed in these bigger boxes and have them outside. Yes that is a snake... it is FAKE... it keeps the chippies, birds, bunnies and squirrels out of my plants. As you can see this box looks empty... it almost is... I had 3 very well growing tomatoes in here... but something ate them!

I have been watering it still, thinking that maybe something might still grow. This morning I found this... yup a tiny little sprout.
I also used my cricut to label the box.
Here are my peppers. They are finally growing and have more than 1 leaf each.
Here is a close up of the plants.

and the new label.

My cilantro is growing by far the best... yup another snake... it really works... since I added them, I have had no critters bugging my plants!

Here is a picture from above. The new leaves actually look like cilantro!

And the new label...

So I am learning... it takes patience to grow stuff. Maybe I will start earlier next year and have more success. I am excited to at least use some cilantro that I grew myself. We will see how the tomatoes and peppers turn out. I am going to go buy some little tomato plants to plant in the box.... we will see... maybe we will have salsa... maybe we will just have cilantro!

2 comments:

Dave said...

Man Kasey..Now I am never going to have anything up on you!! You are tooo creative!! I love the writing on the boxes!
Brandi

Tracy said...

I'm very excited for you. I may just try that snake idea in my garden. We have rabbits who come and nibble on our onions every day.
A little tid bit about cilantro that you may not know; after it has grown a nice looking little bunch of stems and leaves it will grow a thicker stem with different looking leaves (called going to seed). Those other leaves taste totally different. A cilantro plant once it has gone to seed becomes corriander. Not sure what you do with that herb/spice,so use the cilantro as soon as you can.