Thanks! I’m gonna eat it then. I’m not squicked out and I just love arugula.
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That garden situation as shown in your first photo is absolutely gorgeous 
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Thanks! It’s a really beautiful yard. Super peaceful and shady and varied. At least when it’s not covered in shovels and the neighbors aren’t using chainsaws.
That’s why I put “sit on Adirondack chairs” on my weekend to-do list. I don’t relax enough when I’m out there.
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Can anyone tell what these are? I planted a lettuce blend, arugula, and (purple) kale in the area, but I noticed some are popping up in the garden bed next to mine, where those seeds were not planted. I’ve found some weird stuff in our garden due to non-composted compost being added in so wanted to make sure it wasn’t a weed or anything.
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Those look like squash seedlings. A very common survivor in compost.
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Thank you! That makes a lot of sense.
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Agree, squash. Thin them a bit if you want to grow some.
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GUIZE
MY WINTER SQUASH AND MY SUNFLOWERS AND MY CARROTS ARE UP TODAY
It’s actually rained and been cloudy a bit lately which has been wonderful for things sprouting, since they are moistened frequently and don’t dry up instantly.
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They look more like pumpkin seedlings to me.
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Don’t you start. 
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I mean, I’ve literally removed a slug from a tomato, cut off that bit, washed the hell out of it, and eaten it…
(It was an heirloom and that plant wasn’t making very many tomatoes!)
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Huh, I spread my homemade compost even though it wasn’t TOTALLY broken down (close, though, and most of what wasn’t broken down was eggshells which are good for tomatoes anyway). And I have never seen so many what I thought were weeds. I wonder if they are actually something useful? I don’t eat squash so that’s not it.
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Since my delivery order from Garden Center 1 was cancelled, this morning I masked up and walked over to Garden Center 2, which is maybe 6 blocks from me, right when they opened. I was only the 5th in line for the veggie yard (flower yard was WAY busier) and everyone was masked and people were mostly civil.
It sucked to have to hurry up and not be able to browse the way I normally would, but I knew what I wanted and, well, that probably kept the overall bill down, haha.
I got the potting soil and compost I needed (extra important now since my whole yard basically has to be containers only until the building’s roof is replaced, so I can move stuff out of the way of flying shingles).
Plant haul was as follows:
- 2 sweet basil
- 2 sweet banana peppers (wanted mini peppers, they didn’t have any, that’s OK, these have done well for me before. Regular bell peppers don’t do well here, our season’s too short.)
- Super Sweet 100 tomato
- Juliet tomato (which I’d wanted to grow this year but hadn’t found; Boyfriend likes this one a lot)
- Red Robin tomato!! I love this kind, it is squat and thick and doesn’t get tall but makes lots of little tomatoes. It already has tomatoes growing on it.
Did not find:
- Indigo Rose tomatoes (the guy said he hadn’t seen any anywhere this year, hmmm)
- Mexico Midget tomatoes - this one makes tiny little marble sized tomatoes and a lot of them. Of course, after I paid and was leaving, I saw a whole shelf of them in an out of the way spot. They were the bigger more expensive plants though so it’s probably for the best. I am happy with what I ended up with, mostly.
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Our tomatoes are starting to flower!
Best of beanies continues to crush it. Climbing that twine like a champ. Next stop: American Ninja Warrior.
Bush beanies looking strong. Except, uh, looking suspiciously like their pole counterparts. I might need to build an emergency trellis…
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Took some photos at the community garden today. This is the plot that is a 1-hour walk each way to get to. So I haven’t been able to do nearly as much as I’d hoped, also it opened nearly a month behind schedule because Covid. I usually do not have garden anarchy, I plan and I measure and I put in the nifty square foot markers. This year I’m just throwing shit in wherever and hoping for the best. Everything seems happy so far, though.
I will say, though, that this is the weediest bed I’ve ever weeded. I cannot keep up with the tsunami of weeds this thing is producing.
Might be carrots?
Almost certainly arugula:
Could be the Spicy Salad Mix I planted. Could be weeds. Who knows?
I came home and announced to Boyfriend, “I have WORMS!!” He looked unsettled and replied, “uh, on your actual person?”
This is my new tomato baby acquired today. A Super Sweet 100. It was VERY tall already so I tried the trick of planting it sideways. We’ll see how it does!
Trying a new cherry variety, Camp Joy. It’s almost ready to flower!
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Here is the little tomato that could - well this is the most advanced of the 18. It is happier now it gets covered in shade cloth each night. Put to bed with a blanket.
Overnight temps are getting down to 12 C.
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I planted a berry orchard today.
Tomorrow I go back and interplant flowering pollinator attractors like Achillea and Verbena.
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Wow, this looks amazing.
I just came here to announce I finally kept a blueberry alive in a pot for 12 months and it is flowering! I have killed several but seem to have finally become attentive enough.
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I am really happy with my little backyard. As much as I am an urban person through and through, I also love green and this all looks so lush. And just to reiterate again - having this sort of green space at my disposal to use as I see fit, as a renter, at our price point, in a good neighborhood is absolutely unheard of. I am so lucky.
Some of the greenery in the background isn’t mine; it will flower and draw tons of bees soon. Some of it is mine - raspberry bushes that escaped their containers and put out a shitload of volunteers that bear fruit.
I potted all the basil today. Dipping down into the 40s overnight so those will all have to be hauled indoors.
I was 2 containers short for the tomatoes, and on a whim I asked my landlord if he might have any big containers he did not need. He did! Free containers. Hooray. Tomorrow I will plant the last tomato and last pepper in them.
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