Eggplants; Large Gardening Day
I love Japanese Eggplant sometimes called “Millionaire Eggplant”. I was fortunately able to purchase six today. They are very small so hopefully they will survive and bare some fruit. They like it hot and so far this growing it is anything but. It was end of the season for “Two Thumbs Up” green house in Pass Creek so they were having a blow out sale - 2 for 1. I got two containers (six little plants) of the eggplant and it was the kind I prefer (double bonus) and I got 2 squashes, Table Queen Acorn and Green Hubbard.
Yesterday I asked Bob to turn my magnificent compost but I had to take out my pepper and eggplant plants first ~ I have them in there to stay warm at this time. I saw the pepper plants but I just couldn’t see the eggplant – did someone borrow it. So Bob goes to turn my magnficient compost with the pitch fork and he says. “Hold on a minute something is stuck on this thing”. It was my very healthy waiting to be planted eggplant – now busted ~ guess what my reaction was – it wasn’t pretty!
Large Gardening Day:
Yesterday I continued to rassle with the rest of those darn Blue Bells and the chick weed in my no-longer-rose garden so I could get the bedding flowers planted. It got done and it will hopefully be spectacular but it was a lot of work – I mean my body doesn’t get that good hurt any more ~ it is more like what now hurt.
Then I moved onto the large vegetable garden. I started to putter in the end (tires) which I planted at least 3 weeks ago. Hmm . . . why isn’t anything coming up? Well the Blue Hubbard is up as well as the Parsley and Cilantro but where are the squashes and cucumbers? So I replanted the Barbra and Zucchini squashes and the cucumbers. We have had so much rain that maybe the seeds floated away or maybe the red wigglers have eaten them?
Then I moved down to the front of the garden and did some weeding. That end is looking pretty healthy and most everything is up and getting to the point of thinning out.
At the end of the large gardening day (I call it that because I put so much time and effort into it) I put my big, comfy cushion on my Muskoka chair and proceed to tell Bob that I think next year I will either plant all garlic where the veggies are at this time (that depends on how the garlic does this year and if I make enough money selling it to make it worth my while) or even plant grass seed. My reason is that there is only two of us, I don’t harvest other than freeze (I don’t even like frozen vegetables and Bob isn’t a vegetable fan for the most part). The no-longer-rose garden is plenty big enough for what we want in fresh veggies and I grow a lot of veggies and herbs on the deck in big pots any ways. I could easily move the two remaining rose bushes to another garden area then till and fertilize the no-longer-rose garden and away we go – easy, less time consuming and a lot less watering and expensive fertilizing. I am not even worried about the Blue bells because I have a plan which I will divulge another time. Bob is not so keen on the idea of shutting down the big vegetable garden since we have invested in a $1,000 dollar electric fence but we can easily move it over to the no-longer-rose garden and have it still be aesthetically appealing. I think I have quite a good and sensible argument.