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Jul 31, 2007 | 7:48 PM PST
Tags: Telephone peas , Green feast peas , snowpea , rocket , lemon in pot , tomato
I browsed a different nursery this weekend and found rocket and garlic plants. I planted out the rocket in my peas bed. I didn't label which peas were which and they're developing at different rates and shades of green which is exciting! They are telephone peas, green feast peas and Chinese snowpeas and are now two months old and very resilient, despite several heavy frosts. They developed some rust-like brown spots on their lower leaves, but I can't work out whether they have rust or have been frostbitten. Anyway they seem happy as there are no predators in the winter and they're are wrapping their curly tendrils around the string supports I made for them.
I need to organize some shade loving plants and maybe companion plants for the grapes in the front yard. It is tricky though.. I live in an inner city area (if you could call it that - I don't feel that where I live could really be called a 'city'). Since I moved into this house, I've tried to keep the front yard as tattered and trashy as when I moved in, hoping to discourage thieves from taking a further look inside. This strategy didn't work as I was broken into a couple of weeks ago, so today I cleared away some of the rubbish that people throw over my fence. I'm going to give it the same love as the back yard, and take out some home insurance!!
Earlier in the week I visited my parents house. Last time I was there. I planted some tomato, chilli and eggplant seeds in pots for my mum. Their climate is warmer, and the tomatoes look great ! Chillis/eggplants are a little bit slower.
Jul 24, 2007 | 3:15 AM PST
Tags: cucumber , Bell Peppers , onions , long green eggplant , pak choi , pole beans , snowpea
Hi all! Do not be mistaken - these aren't my veggies, this is the picture from the seed shop of the seeds that arrived today. We'll have to see whether my summer peppers will look as cute as this picture! I'm new to peppers, and I thought that it would be fun to buy the mixed seeds and wait and see what color that they will be. I also got purplette onion, Louisiana long green eggplant, green dragon F1 cucumber, mei quing choi F1 pak choi, stutttgart long keeper onion, purple pole bean and snowpea goliath.
If you have grown any of these please tell me some stories - did they grow abnormally or get sick? Were they easy peasy? What to watch out for? I love hearing ppl discussing their vegetables and I've only grown most of these in video games! As a virtual farmer, I got to see all of the stages of vegetable growth in pixels, but not irl.
