Garden Madness 2009, #2

[nonelvis]

God, what a long and stupid day. At least I finally remembered to go outside and photograph some of the flowers, like this dwarf dianthus in one of the front pots:




I put lobelia in the small blue pot out front. It could not be prettier.


Not that we don't always have columbines in the garden, but for some reason, they look especially nice this year.


Fuchsia-colored cosmos seedling that's going to go in the front garden this weekend. Is there a flower more cheerful than cosmos? I'm not sure.


And finally, this year's seedlings, or rather, the ones I just bought last week after the asters, anemones, and black-eyed susans I didn't really need but planted anyway. There's pink and fuchsia cosmos; three cherry tomato plants (black, red, yellow); a Paul Robeson tomato; marigolds, to keep the tomatoes company; some cantaloupes; a cucumber or two; a couple kinds of basil; poblano and corno di toro peppers; and the plant I really didn't need: more bee balm. In my defense, it is supposed to be bright scarlet.


I cannot, however, really defend any of the seedlings other than the cherry tomatoes, which we won't be getting in the CSA share because we didn't spring for the pick-your-own option. Yes, all these veggies I'm growing will be on top of the ridiculously large harvest we get from Drumlin Farm. I know I'm screwed vegetable-wise and I JUST DON'T CARE. Clearly I'll just have to spend the rest of the summer eating panzanella and pickling stuff like crazy.

Comments

[fonticulus.livejournal.com]

Having too much veggies can't be a bad thing. You can always dry the basil, freeze the peppers, and can the tomatoes.

Don't cosmos just scream summer? There isn't a summery-er flower.

[nonelvis]

That's what I'm telling myself. I will just preserve stuff like crazy! Maybe I'll even buy a food dehydrator to make my own sun-dried tomatoes.

I wish the cosmos would self-seed and stick around, but the spot I have available for it is only partial sun. If it were full sun, I'm sure I'd have cosmos every year.

[platypus]

Mmm, cherry tomatoes. I think my five (five!) tomato plants are an exercise in futility, with my southeast-ish exposure and the way the shape of the building blocks light in the early afternoon, but I can't stop trying. I have some lobelia from last fall that never took off -- I sort of gave up on them and left them all scraggly and pathetic, and then this spring they exploded.

I bet the dianthus would be really pretty in an extreme macro shot :)

[nonelvis]

It's early yet in the year -- plenty of time for your tomatoes to take off!

I might try more macros of the dianthus, because I love its edges. You can get a better look at it in the original size shot.