All I need is the animals
Jun. 13th, 2009 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenThe day dawned overcast and muggy, which meant that hanging laundry outside to dry wasn't going to work. Especially since overcast turned into occasional bits of rain. Sometimes it was sunny and rainy, just to mix it up a little.
Laundry was still done, I just hung it inside to dry. I find that air drying in any form, even the kind that has to be done over a couple of days thanks to humidity, gives a result that I prefer over machine drying.
While the laundry was in the machine I took care of the plants. The tomatoes haven't come in yet, but their vines are doing very well. Ironically the plant for the grape tomatoes is bigger and bushier than the big boy. Go fig. They are starting to show flowers though so that's good. And, of course, they smell like tomatoes. 8)
The basil has been strange. Normally you can't beat it off with a stick but this year four of the plants have just withered and vanished, leaving one and a half left. One seems fine, the half I'm not sure about. They all came from the same batch so I'm assuming whatever it was was something they brought with them. If necessary I'll buy more. We'll see how the remaining one and a half does first.
The parsley, OTOH, is doing great.
The morning glories and moonflowers haven't begun to bloom yet, but they are growing. Every few days I have to unwind them from the main stake and wrap them around the spiral cage that they're supposed to be climbing. But they're not dead yet and I think that's the key part to all of this. Once they bloom we'll see what made it and what didn't. At least for the morninig glories, as the seedlings I got had only blue flowers, but the seeds were multi-colored. So if there are multi-colored morning glories we'll know the seeds made it in spite of me touching them. Moonflowers I have no idea.
Now if only I could get some goats and chickens... ;)
Laundry was still done, I just hung it inside to dry. I find that air drying in any form, even the kind that has to be done over a couple of days thanks to humidity, gives a result that I prefer over machine drying.
While the laundry was in the machine I took care of the plants. The tomatoes haven't come in yet, but their vines are doing very well. Ironically the plant for the grape tomatoes is bigger and bushier than the big boy. Go fig. They are starting to show flowers though so that's good. And, of course, they smell like tomatoes. 8)
The basil has been strange. Normally you can't beat it off with a stick but this year four of the plants have just withered and vanished, leaving one and a half left. One seems fine, the half I'm not sure about. They all came from the same batch so I'm assuming whatever it was was something they brought with them. If necessary I'll buy more. We'll see how the remaining one and a half does first.
The parsley, OTOH, is doing great.
The morning glories and moonflowers haven't begun to bloom yet, but they are growing. Every few days I have to unwind them from the main stake and wrap them around the spiral cage that they're supposed to be climbing. But they're not dead yet and I think that's the key part to all of this. Once they bloom we'll see what made it and what didn't. At least for the morninig glories, as the seedlings I got had only blue flowers, but the seeds were multi-colored. So if there are multi-colored morning glories we'll know the seeds made it in spite of me touching them. Moonflowers I have no idea.
Now if only I could get some goats and chickens... ;)
