Posts Tagged ‘Pole Beans’

Garden Porn: Unpredictability

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

This is the fourth day in the last two weeks where the weather report has called for rain but we’ve had nothing but humidity. It’s felt like it was fixin’ to rain all day, but it hasn’t actually come… which might be because I brought my umbrella to the office. I’m starting to lose faith in meteorology as a science.

Anyway, the first beans are starting to grow on the vine, and the strawberries are flowering! The tomatoes are flowering too, but I feel like they’ve got a bit of growing up to do (once the weather gets a little hotter) before we’ll get anything good out of them. Here are the goods:

My first pole bean!

My first pole bean!

The basil is getting tall.

The basil is getting tall.

The strawberries are flowering.

The strawberries are flowering.

The tomato is flowering too.

The tomato is flowering too.

Garden Porn: Survival

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

The area had a frost advisory last night–or, at least, all the counties northwest of here, stopping at Washington DC. I covered up as many plants as I could just in case, but from the look of the ones I had to leave exposed, we don’t appear to have gotten any frost. I suppose that’s a positive part of the urban heat island effect?

Anyway, I took these pictures on Sunday, shortly after buying and planting some new seedlings… enjoy!

The whole garden... still a lot of planting yet to be done, but we're getting closer!

The whole garden... still a lot of planting yet to be done, but we're getting closer!

Pole beans... this is the first year I'm growing them.

Pole beans... this is the first year I'm growing them.

Yet more peppers... now in addition to bells, I've got Anaheims, jalapeƱos, and sweet peppers.

Yet more peppers... now in addition to bells, I've got Anaheims, jalapeƱos, and sweet peppers.

I'm also trying melons this year... but I need them to climb up the fence instead of spreading out, because I need the real estate.

I'm also trying melons this year... but I need them to climb up the fence instead of spreading out, because I need the real estate.