Tag Archives: My garden experiment

I do miss having my garden – not that they wouldn’t be spending the winter at my parents’ house anyway, but it’s sort of sad knowing that they won’t be coming back – there’s just nowhere to put them here! … Continue reading →

I know many of you laughed when I said the avocado plant was ominous, but look at it now: ‘What’s so ominous about that, Anne?’ I hear you say. What’s ominous is that it’s growing its own minions! Look at … Continue reading →

Alas, we’ve hit that point in the gardening season when I’ve kind of lost interest and keep thinking ‘They’re plants – they don’t need me! They’ll be fine.’ I’m really only actively looking after two of them now because the … Continue reading →

One of my sunflowers is actually looking like a sunflower!

It’s not the drones – I haven’t seen them since the wasps showed up (don’t worry, I…took care of them) – I think it must be a female since it’s not all black like the drones are and doesn’t have … Continue reading →

I opened the door to my balcony this afternoon to go out and water everybody and promptly stopped and said ‘Holy fuck!’ Apparently, I have discovered a new species of cucumber: Stealth cucumber. I’ve been repeatedly checking on this little … Continue reading →

After about a month of pure laziness – shame on you! – the meyer lemon plant is finally doing something… It is starting to flower! I don’t know why I find the avocado plant so ominous, but I do: I … Continue reading →

As I was getting ready to have my dinner, I went out to water my garden and discovered that my ear of corn was finally ready to be picked! Very exciting, no? But once I picked it, I realised ‘Well. … Continue reading →

A baby cucumber! It’s more spiky than I was expecting, but maybe that’ll go away as it matures. Maybe? And then these flowers on the pumpkin plant appeared, like, overnight: Very exciting!

I’m so behind on things I wanted to post about – a movie review, a book review, Next-Door Neighbor’s name (!), and my garden! My garden is up first, though, because things happen so fast – it seems like the … Continue reading →

I thought it was time for a garden update! After a terrific thunderstorm this morning, I assumed everybody would be quite droopy and waterlogged, but quite the opposite – everyone seems to have grown tremendously. I happened to take some … Continue reading →

Look who also showed up yesterday! Alas, it is not the ailing lemon plant… It’s a new lemon plant! A Meyer lemon plant! It is very exciting. I will be spending the day being a good garden owner and reading … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful, sunny day today (well, for most of the day today – it’s raining and chilly now), so I decided to get planting! Remember my seed experiment? Well, all that’s left is one of the sunflowers, so … Continue reading →