Dabney Garden Blog

So today I saw this lady in a tank tops and cutoffs carrying a two-year-old wearing only shorts.  Does this adequately illustrate how warm it has been?  We haven’t had days below 70ish, except that one when it rained. 

As a result, the garden’s looking great.  The tree-trimming seems to have made the carrots happy, if nothing else.  I was able to harvest about ten little tomatoes and a few peas today.  These are the first ready peas I’d seen, even though I wrote about seeing a blossom December 22nd. Probably haven’t been looking closely enough.  And as a result, missing tastiness.

Today I saw a cluster of seven honeybees drinking water off a still-wet soaker hose.  

The bean plant(s) near the wall were not looking so happy, and I’d been meaning to pull them out for a while.  I bought a potted rosemary plant with the intent of putting it in the corner when the bean was done-it’s probably the best placement for a perennial bush.  I finally replaced the bean today.  When I pulled it out, I got another double-handful of dried bean pods out of its unreachable depths (and converted them into 1/3 cup of beans).  I also found some sprouting beans, which I replanted near the snow peas.  

I also put some more of Alex’s sprouting onions into the ground, including nine cloves of garlic.  While the garlic may bulb again, the onions should be let to go to seed. They already had 3-6 inch bulbs, and likely won’t improve upon that.

My indoor starter flats are really happy.  I planted them sixteen days ago, and all four types (basil, kohlrabi, oregano, and parsley) are up, in that order.  They certainly follow the light of the desklamp- when I turn them, three hours later they are leaning toward the light again.  We’ll have more herbs for the wall bed when it gets warm for good.  (Who knows, maybe that’s now?)