Garden update
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janestarzWhile life goes on, in the most literal sense of the word, so does the garden. While I sometimes take the time to reroute the tendrils* of my pumpkin plant, today I noticed something really spiffy. On its way to world domination the pumpkin has found the tomato's support structure and is literally making its way up to the roof of the shed. Whether this is to be desired remains to be seen.
The large leaves and yellow trumpet flower is the pumpkin. The rest, also known as The Degrading Mess is what remains of my tomato plants.
To make matters even more interesting: in the category of "what you don't see won't hurt you", my courgette plant is planning to take over the world in its own way. Under a mass of leaves (both courgette and pumpkin, who are both overgrowing the spring onions between them) lies a dormant shape. I still expect it to burst open at any moment, sprouting a mass of thousands of courgette-coloured Giger aliens. (Since there's fanart on the internet already I suppose this happens more often.)
I guess to grow a monster courgette, you just need to lose it for a while under a mass of leaves and you end up with a 45 cm specimen (pictorial proof below). Actually, part of me is rather curious how much larger it will grow, and what will happen once we get night frost, and whether the ant colony has already made it their winter ski lodge.
There are more coming, all those small stalks with dead flowers on their butts will one glorious day make me a lot of soup.
Meanwhile, the Oak I placed in the cupboard spontaneously sprouted new leaves, the kidney-root (Eupatorium purpurea) is now in bloom after its near brush with death when I uprooted it to get rid of the firethorn a few weeks back, the galinsoga is brave enough to return despite my previous wrath & scorntm, the california poppies have survived my scouring of the weed ghetto, and I really shouldn't forget there's still spring onions to be harvested and eaten.
Even when I don't pay attention to it, the Garden Will Gloriously Go On.
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*) "Om de tuin leiden" noemen we dat.
The large leaves and yellow trumpet flower is the pumpkin. The rest, also known as The Degrading Mess is what remains of my tomato plants.
To make matters even more interesting: in the category of "what you don't see won't hurt you", my courgette plant is planning to take over the world in its own way. Under a mass of leaves (both courgette and pumpkin, who are both overgrowing the spring onions between them) lies a dormant shape. I still expect it to burst open at any moment, sprouting a mass of thousands of courgette-coloured Giger aliens. (Since there's fanart on the internet already I suppose this happens more often.)
I guess to grow a monster courgette, you just need to lose it for a while under a mass of leaves and you end up with a 45 cm specimen (pictorial proof below). Actually, part of me is rather curious how much larger it will grow, and what will happen once we get night frost, and whether the ant colony has already made it their winter ski lodge.
There are more coming, all those small stalks with dead flowers on their butts will one glorious day make me a lot of soup.
Meanwhile, the Oak I placed in the cupboard spontaneously sprouted new leaves, the kidney-root (Eupatorium purpurea) is now in bloom after its near brush with death when I uprooted it to get rid of the firethorn a few weeks back, the galinsoga is brave enough to return despite my previous wrath & scorntm, the california poppies have survived my scouring of the weed ghetto, and I really shouldn't forget there's still spring onions to be harvested and eaten.
Even when I don't pay attention to it, the Garden Will Gloriously Go On.
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*) "Om de tuin leiden" noemen we dat.
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Date: 2012-10-12 06:22 pm (UTC)