To the Window! To the Wall!

cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/4367

This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown.

I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment!

Hopefully as a one off, I moved all of my content on Tacoma Gardening to orbiting.observer, my new lemmy instance. Long live fernchat!

cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/33565

Back in January, I had a small potato from the market that went green, so I decided to quarter it and plant it in this old wicker basket. The soil eventually got heaped up to slightly over halfway. Not too bad!

cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/24160

It's lovely to have these critters flying around the garden. I really need to get on iNaturalist and start learning the names.

cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/13399

The picture up top is a Sugar Pie pumpkin that I'm going to try and trellis vertically. Look at that flower!

My pet cilantro is flowering as well. It's been hot and dry, so it decided to skip the 'lets make herb' part, understandable. The flowers still can make a nice pesto!

We've got marigolds going around the property!

The nasturtiums are in full bloom, and delicious in our salads.

The tomatoes are doing their thing, yay!

cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/5370

Here's my square foot garden! It's a new as of this winter. Currently I have:

• Tomatoes
• French Filet Beans
• Jade Bush Beans
• Spinach
• Lacinto Kale
• Red Leaf Lettuce
• Little Gem Lettuce
• Leeks
• Onions
• And Scallions, Oh My!
• Radishes
• Carrots
• Early Jalapeño, but it's very sad :(

Also: far too many vegetables in pots and bags in Garden Overflow Nexus One: like pumpkins, arugula, potatoes, more tomatoes (oh no!), strawberries, parsley....

cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/2156

Today's harvest! Red leaf lettuce, little gem lettuce, radishes, and carrots I picked too early because I was too curious!