thrillingdetectivetales: Davie and Alan from the play, Kidnapped, kissing on the moors. Both men's faces are obscured. Davie has a hand on Alan's cheek. (PLANTS - teal plants)
Everything in the garden is progressing reasonably well! So far I've only lost the cucumbers, which is fine, considering that I didn't really have space for them anyway. The heat has jumped up quite a bit these last few weeks and scorched several of the plants, including my highest producing strawberry, so I'm going to have to either buy a curtain or rig one to filter some of the direct sun. In the meantime, pepper update!

Last week I planted a LOT of pepper seeds and have been waiting for them to germinate and a few from the first batch are finally starting to peek through the soil! This is pretty exciting news for me because I didn't do anything special beyond putting the first round of seeds in one of those plastic Jiffy greenhouses.

Back here so it doesn't take up so much space. )

I should have some leafcutter bees arriving on Friday, which is very exciting. It's possible that they'll stick around where the masons didn't, but the actual forage I have in the garden right now is slim pickings for that volume of bees, so I doubt it. At the very least I'm having a lot of fun watching things grow. It's giving me some good ideas for how to angle my life in terms of both life and career desires.

I hope everyone else out there in internet-land is doing well in strange times.
thrillingdetectivetales: Davie and Alan from the play, Kidnapped, kissing on the moors. Both men's faces are obscured. Davie has a hand on Alan's cheek. (Default)
...as have roughly two of the Gerbera daisies. (Technically it's a half each of two separate Gerbera daisies, plus one smaller pot, but, semantics and what have you.)

Anyway I continue to be cursed with a black thumb for flowers even while the edible plants under my care seem to be doing very well indeed. Something (possibly the cucumber beetle I found on the smaller, completely dead Gerbera daisies) has been eating one of my lemon balms, too, which I don't appreciate. Here's a quick list update of everything I've got on the go at the moment:

Back here because there's honestly a lot happening. )

Put out the bees last week and most of them hatched. Will have to stick my fingers around and check on the remaining cocoons but want to give them another day or two of warm weather to emerge. None of them have stayed, so far as I can tell, but I didn't really expect them to. One of them came for a buzz about my ears while I was tending to the plants today, which was nice.

I'm glad to have a hobby that gets me out of doors with my hands in the dirt again. If everything goes according to plan, I will have to actually start space planning my patio in preparation for full-grown plants. Berry bushes should arrive sometime this week. Package tracking has them on the 21st but things have been coming in earlier than expected so I live in hope.

Will come around with another, non-garden related update later, but this about all I have energy for at the moment. Ta!

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