Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Another Typical Day

that looks like a meal right there
As we plow through these, the dogs days of Summer, and start to feel Autumnal clues in the air, the Bloomfield backyard urban garden aka yarden still keeps putting out hits! Like the Summer of Love, 1969, you can feel the love produced by my two little herb and veggie plots all Summer long. Broccoli continues to flourish. Tomatoes have begun to ripen. The basil, oregano, dill, and, of course, mint only get bushier as time goes on. Now, some fat little yellow worm ate through the stem of my zucchini plant, so that motherfucker died. The plant I mean, not the worm. Fat little worm gorged him or herself long before I figured out what happened. Oh well. The carrots turned out great, and the green pepper plant continues to put off nice little tennis ball sized fruits. Yarden 2014 for the win.




fat little worm destroyed my zucchini plant





Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Open for Business

I just divvied up this week's harvest into manageable packages to distribute among friends. Nice...



Saturday, September 14, 2013

Harvest Bouquet

I let a lot of the broccoli flower for two reasons. 1) I have plenty and it still keeps producing more and more, and 2) the yellow flowers look nice. So I picked all the blooming broccoli flowers as well as the purple mint flowers and made a bouquet. Sorta cool...



Thursday, June 20, 2013

JoeSoGarden Update -- Poppin' Off

The garden has really exploded over the last month. I need to reign in the tomatoes before they destroy the onions. The broccoli has sprouted nice, large, dense heads. The carrot row looks like a little forest, and the triangle plot got some transplants and a row of yellow and pink flowers. I've made mojitos twice with the mint. The cilantro has turned into coriander and the basil looks fantastic. Take a look!

broccoli head
broccoli plants
carrots
onions, crushed by tomato plants! 
cilantro, grown from seeds, very easy and fast
basil
cilantro from seedling that flowered into coriander (I guess?)
need to figure out how to handle those tomato plants in the middle/right...
the other little plot with some flowering plants
broccoli transplants from the other side ... need a splash of water
this will have yellow and orange flowers in the fall
mint for mojitos