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Garden report!
Plants: not dead yet!
The peas are, for the most part, thriving, much to my surprise. Nine seedlings came in a compartmented plastic pot-thing, and I managed to break or injure several stems while pulling them out, so I was not optimistic. But most of them are actually growing! I need to get pea-stakes of some ilk, since I may actually need them.
Strawberry: I see nine (nine!) teeny little green baby strawberries! And it's madly putting out blossoms, too! So I think the next step is to find some bird-netting to protect it from the birds. XD There is also something that finds the leaves delicious: two leaves are decorated with lots of half-moon cutouts on their edges.
Tomatoes: Both plants are thriving, and one is starting to put out little blossoms. So it looks like I may need to get a couple of tomato cages. (Sensing a theme here? Not bothering to get equipment that I might not need, back when I first got the plants? XD)
The onions are lengthening, the basil has finally decided it's going to grow and is doing so with gusto, the cilantro is ebullient, and my sweet cayenne raised from seed has deigned to put out another leaf. The chives aren't doing much at the moment, and the bell pepper and dill are pretty much as they were when I planted them, and naturally the potatoes are still bare patches of dirt with, I expect, rotting pieces of potato buried in them.* But overall, successful so far!
* I find being pessimistic about this sort of thing increases my enjoyment greatly when something actually doesn't die.
The peas are, for the most part, thriving, much to my surprise. Nine seedlings came in a compartmented plastic pot-thing, and I managed to break or injure several stems while pulling them out, so I was not optimistic. But most of them are actually growing! I need to get pea-stakes of some ilk, since I may actually need them.
Strawberry: I see nine (nine!) teeny little green baby strawberries! And it's madly putting out blossoms, too! So I think the next step is to find some bird-netting to protect it from the birds. XD There is also something that finds the leaves delicious: two leaves are decorated with lots of half-moon cutouts on their edges.
Tomatoes: Both plants are thriving, and one is starting to put out little blossoms. So it looks like I may need to get a couple of tomato cages. (Sensing a theme here? Not bothering to get equipment that I might not need, back when I first got the plants? XD)
The onions are lengthening, the basil has finally decided it's going to grow and is doing so with gusto, the cilantro is ebullient, and my sweet cayenne raised from seed has deigned to put out another leaf. The chives aren't doing much at the moment, and the bell pepper and dill are pretty much as they were when I planted them, and naturally the potatoes are still bare patches of dirt with, I expect, rotting pieces of potato buried in them.* But overall, successful so far!
* I find being pessimistic about this sort of thing increases my enjoyment greatly when something actually doesn't die.
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We've got a raised bed on the edge of the patio in this house where I'm putting the plants - I've dug the holes for them to about the depth of the pots they were in (and using those biodegradable pots that you plant with the plant, mostly). I managed to plant both tomato plants about 6-8 inches deep before reading the instructions and finding that I was supposed to pretty much bury the plant (80% of it was supposed to be under ground!). Luckily, someone forgot to tell the tomato plants that and they're both doing just fine.
Tonight we went by Lowes and bought two plant cages for the tomatoes and some bamboo stakes and twine for the peas. I'll put them out on Wednesday, since I'll be at piano Tuesday night. What I'm going to do for the peas is put a few stakes out, then string the twine back and forth to make a sort of twine trellis. It seemed the cheapest, least elaborate way to do it.
We also got bird netting, and I'm going to cut one of the stakes into 3 pieces and tie the netting to them to form a cage over the strawberry plant. I expect I'll do the same for the tomatoes once they start fruiting.
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I couldn't find what I *wanted*, which was a simple metal cylindrical cage to set down over the plants. What I ended up with was a cage that looks rather flimsy: two stakes and two semicircular metal pieces that hook together to form a circle. I shall probably have wish I purchased the one that contains *two* circles instead of just one, but they were cheap and I can go back and buy more if need be.
I'm more worried about the birds - my parents never used bird netting to protect ripening tomatoes, but they also planted many more plants than I did and there was always a bird tax. :) If I let the birds have some of them, I'll have hardly any left.
ETA: Finally got the site to cough up the products! This is what I got (http://www.lowes.com/pd_24818-52487-831343_4294936085_?productId=3027971&Ntt=support&Ntk=i_products&pl=1¤tURL=/pl_Lawn%2B_4294936085__s?Ntk=i_products$Ntt=support). This URL theoretically leads to the one I will probably wish I'd got (http://www.lowes.com/pd_24877-52487-831350_4294936085_?productId=3028006&Ntt=support&Ntk=i_products&pl=1¤tURL=/pl_Lawn%2B_4294936085__s?Ntk=i_products$Ntt=support), but the site is so slow it's not yet loading for me. Not happy with either of 'em because they both look flimsy, but I'll probably have to go to an actual nursery or garden store to get a non-flimsy cage.
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