Mikhailah's Blog

A Gardener's Diary - Tropical Wave has just about gone!
Jun 10, 2007 | 4:14 PM PST

I think that tropical wave we had has officially heralded the rainy season here. June begins the hurricane season which ends in November.

I haven't been in the garden for a few days now. I've just been observing fro the window.

The 'red pear' tomato seedlings on the patio really need planting out now, so....

Our middle son and myself are taking a trip to the DIY store and the garden centre tomorrow, before he begins his internship for the summer. He's great for lifting large objects! I have to buy the reinforcement steel to make my cages. Plus a few other things. I need to buy some food for my hungry pumpkin plant, I have the granules but I think I need something soluble, granules tend to burn if I'm not careful, and my pumpkin is sooo pretty I would hate to spoil the look.

I'm thinking to move my flower plants into the gravel paths in the back. Right now they're all on the patio. I think they need more sun, not too much though!

I'm also gathering ideas for an arbor type structure between the pathway, not sure if to use wood or metal. I'll hunt around tomorrow. Something contemporary, I think.

A Gardener's Diary - Tropical Wave, just passin' through!
Jun 8, 2007 | 2:09 PM PST

Well, we're seeing the tail end of a tropical wave here. Happens everytime, I plant some potatoes and we have a deluge of water. Hopefully this planting will survive, they're only a few inches tall. Last time they turned yellow, then brown, then the died.

margaret scaremonkey is dead (my scare'crow' I put up to scare away neighbourhood monkeys!). she got waterlogged with all the rain we've had over the past couple day, and flopped over my beets, thank goodness she didn't fall on them!

All my cukes have been harvested now, and I have one cabbage left.

The bush beans are flowering and growing baby beans now, and my beets are plumping up nicely.

The romaine lettuces are doing well, nice and bright green, they seem to be growing much more rapidly than the oak leaf variety I have.

Bought a new hose, it guarantees that we'll never have to buy one again, mmmm, if only I could get that in writing!

All this wet weather means I haven't been in the garden too much this week. Which is nice sometimes, it's nice to see the bigger changes when you skip a few days. Though I can see from the window that more hot and sweet peppers are turning red and my pumpkin is getting bigger and bigger and wandering aimlessly down the bed.

I'd like to plant some more romaine lettuce now, though I may put down some more oak leaf, right near the english peas where it's shadier, it would be cooler for them there, they're not liking the sun right now!

I'm still growing my tomato seedlings to plant out. (beefsteak, Sun Yellow?, Tigerella, Gardener's Delight and Red Pear).

The asters and mum's are still growing, no flowers yet.

Strawberry seedlings? No show as of yet, still hoping.