Let me catch you up
on what's going down.
So... three weeks ago, I began to make cross-county trips to tend to the Trigram Garden. Among other tasks, I harvested some of the collards, lettuce and other greens; pulled some of the garlic that's kept coming back since 2007; tried to catch up with and stake the suddenly bushy tomatoes.
It didn't become consistently warm (hot, really) until about two weeks ago. The combination of 90-degree temps and a few days of heavy rain enabled quite a bit of growth just before Father's Day... so much that I was a bit dismayed at how things looked.
June 13, looking SE...
...looking west
June 21, looking NW...
...looking east
It wasn't so much how tall and crowded the plants had become -- that was the sort of effect I wanted. The problem was that so many plants had been pushed over by the rain and wind.
The Tarahumara sunflowers (the half that managed to establish themselves) were toppled over into the flax and corn. A mass of spindly stems from the bolted brassicas were draped over the pea trellises, and the peas were knotted up beneath them. The tomatoes seemed to have grown two feet in the span of a week and they were developing a southward lean that, if left unchecked, was going to cause them to topple.
There were so many little fires that demanded attention, I ended up walking away in order to find solace among the nightshades.
Datura leichhardtii grown from seed that I collected in India
Brugmansia sanguinea grown from seed that I bought online
The Solanaceae row on June 21
As noted above, I have a couple of Brugmansia sanguinea and Datura leichhardtii plants in this separate space. There are two Datura wrightii plants in between the D. leichhardtii. I also sowed a few other Datura species here and there in this plot, which is flanked by bull thistle, blackberries, lots of natives, and the odd mandrake.
Meanwhile, back inside the Trigram:
Morning glories getting their vine on
A knobby bit of broccoli
Bee's friend (Phacelia tanacetifolia) beginning to flower
Speaking of bees, here's some acrobatic bumblebee love amid flax
A couple of unripe Siberian tomatoes
And finally, some peas glistening in a pod
It didn't become consistently warm (hot, really) until about two weeks ago. The combination of 90-degree temps and a few days of heavy rain enabled quite a bit of growth just before Father's Day... so much that I was a bit dismayed at how things looked.
June 13, looking SE...
...looking west
June 21, looking NW...
...looking east
It wasn't so much how tall and crowded the plants had become -- that was the sort of effect I wanted. The problem was that so many plants had been pushed over by the rain and wind.
The Tarahumara sunflowers (the half that managed to establish themselves) were toppled over into the flax and corn. A mass of spindly stems from the bolted brassicas were draped over the pea trellises, and the peas were knotted up beneath them. The tomatoes seemed to have grown two feet in the span of a week and they were developing a southward lean that, if left unchecked, was going to cause them to topple.
There were so many little fires that demanded attention, I ended up walking away in order to find solace among the nightshades.
Datura leichhardtii grown from seed that I collected in India
Brugmansia sanguinea grown from seed that I bought online
The Solanaceae row on June 21
As noted above, I have a couple of Brugmansia sanguinea and Datura leichhardtii plants in this separate space. There are two Datura wrightii plants in between the D. leichhardtii. I also sowed a few other Datura species here and there in this plot, which is flanked by bull thistle, blackberries, lots of natives, and the odd mandrake.
Meanwhile, back inside the Trigram:
Morning glories getting their vine on
A knobby bit of broccoli
Bee's friend (Phacelia tanacetifolia) beginning to flower
Speaking of bees, here's some acrobatic bumblebee love amid flax
A couple of unripe Siberian tomatoes
And finally, some peas glistening in a pod
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