Fiber Dreams

Flowers and veggies

Anne’s garden is growing like a weed. Hers gets that stuff that falls from the sky… I’m not quite sure what it is. She calls it rain. Rain? Hm. I have to use a hose to give water to my plants, and mine are in pots, not the ground, so are encumbered, but they seem to be growing nonetheless.

In the top row, second picture from the left, you can see the pot in back with the rosemary in it. The original onions are in that pot, too, and they’re growing like mad. They’re quite tall, and getting rather big around at the base of the stem. I wish I could dig them up and see how they’re doing without hurting them. Waiting for root veggies to get big is so difficult!

The petunias are all blooming nicely. I think I need to feed the ones in the long, rectangular pot, though. The leaves aren’t quite as green as they should be, and though blooming, they’re not growing very fast.

Second row, second from the left. That’s the thyme. Yes, that trailing plant with the tiny white flowers is thyme. Yum. Clearly, it needs a bit of pruning we need to use some.

Second row down, second from the right. All that lush greenery is the one chocolate mint slip that lived. That’s right. All that from one tiny slip. Every time I brush by it I get that lovely chocolate mint aroma. I have to admit to brushing by it on purpose, just to get the enjoyment of its fragrance. It’s sharing the pot with my favorite color of lobelia, which also seems to be rather happy.

Center row far right. Tomatoes. With lots of flower buds. Here, let me show you another one, there are a couple flowers open, and ready for business. Remember how all five seeds sprouted? Well, I never did pull any of the plants. I couldn’t decide which was to loose its life, so they’re all still there. I finally put the cage around them about a week ago. Not a moment too soon. They’re growing like mad, and are more than three feet tall. Flower buds all over the place. Woot!

Bottom row, first two pictures. The cucumbers! They’re looking a little peaked, but not as bad as they were the day before. I fed them. The only plant food that I had that was even close was a tomato formulation 8-24-8. I did a little searching online and saw that cucumbers like 10-20-10. Either I gave them something that will help, or something that will kill them faster. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Especially since there are a couple baby cucumbers on the vine that are starting to get to a good size… Still nowhere near big enough to eat, but they’re looking like lemon cucumbers finally. I love lemon cucumbers. Ooh boy.

Bottom row, far right. That’s one of the baby bell peppers. It’s already starting to turn yellow! I am so looking forward to eating home-grown yellow bell peppers. Yum!

Knitting

Wendy is knitting the same shawl I am from Victorian Lace Today! How fun is that? I started first, but I don’t want to make any bets on who finishes first. She’s a quick knitter. While perusing Wendy’s blog this morning, I saw that she’d found an errata pdf for VLT. If you’re knitting anything from the book, make sure you download that file.

Yes, I made a little sock progress yesterday. Finished turning that heel, picked up the gusset stitches, and did the first round of decreases.

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