Yeah, it’s been a while. I’m taking my giant comprehensive exams in 32 days and have been working a lot, so not so much with the time to blog.
Anyway, here’s some garden porn! Things are growing! Vegetables are being produced! Life is wonderful!
Yeah, it’s been a while. I’m taking my giant comprehensive exams in 32 days and have been working a lot, so not so much with the time to blog.
Anyway, here’s some garden porn! Things are growing! Vegetables are being produced! Life is wonderful!
I was going to have some guest garden porn today, as I thought I was flying home to my parents’ house in Michigan this morning to spend a week visiting up there, but when I got to the ticket counter at BWI it turned out that my ticket was in fact for tomorrow. That’s something that would have been good for me to notice before I woke up at 5:45 to go to the airport, but things being what they are, I’m going to make the most of it. Expect some garden porn from my parents’ garden later this week.

One of my eggplants is starting to come in. Soon I'm going to have to find a good recipe that uses eggplant. Incidentally, baby eggplants look like they come from another planet. (Click to embiggen.)
This week: my first cucumber! The garden is making the transition from a pretty garden to a fruitful one… little cukes coming in all over the place, tomatoes and peppers getting started, and even the beginning of an eggplant! I picked this cucumber today… but I haven’t cut into it yet to see how it tastes.
Sorry I missed a week in there… the cucumbers are coming in! Last week I had about a hundred male flowers and one female one (the females are the ones that actually have the cucumber behind them). Now I’ve got more female flowers growing in and getting fertilized – in a few weeks, I’ll have full-grown cukes!
Sorry about the delayed garden porn… my friend Nirvana is in town from LA and we’ve been seeing the sights. This week’s garden porn: the cucumbers are blossoming all over the place! Also, the sweet peppers seem to have re-blossomed… which maybe means they’ll do a little growing for once?
Today’s garden porn: A beautiful, breezy, sunny early-summer day, and my cucumbers are in bloom! The yellow flowers are stunning – and they also mean that fruit’s just around the corner.
I also cut some romaine and arugula the other day… they’re delicious. Nothing quite like home-grown veggies…