It rained the entire time we were in Hell Pensacola, and the plantsies have rewarded us magnificently…
Up top there is one of the billion creepers the cucumber plant is sending out, desperately grabbing at anything it can find, much like its insane sort-of cousin, the wisteria. The other cucumber plant in that pot, if you listen very closely, is screaming ala Bugs Bunny, “Get me outta heeeere!”
The big plant there on the right is covered, COVERED I say, in blooms and tiny, hairy cucumbers:
The gioia della mensa tomatoes have bloomed and now peel back their blossoms in readiness for fruit:
The pineapple melon plant has blooms-o-plenty already, despite being about six inches tall:
The parisier market carrots are going like mad, no doubt put to shame by the insane population of radishes next door:
The Meyer lemon tree, whilst working dutifully on the existing fruit, has popped out about nine thousand more blooms, awaiting the arrival of the bees:
And how are the peas doing, you ask?
Let’s just say they learn well.
*Movie quote…who can guess it WITHOUT GOOGLING?
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on Apr 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am
So, do you leave everything in containers? That main photo (the curly sprout thingy) is gorgeous, by the way.
on Apr 11th, 2008 at 8:51 am
This year, yeah, since Husband has resumes out to various places and we weren’t sure if we were moving or not. I’ve since discovered I can’t freaking live that way, on eleventerhooks all the time. Plants are staying in containers anyway, demmit. And everything is doing great. We have the tomatoes all *inside* the pool enclosure, since the various bastard beasties that also love them are likewise as vigorous as everything else down here. The cucumbers (the curly thing up top), carrots, onions, radishes, melons and citrus trees are all outside the enclosure.
Yah, we have pesticides and we’re not afraid to use them.
on Apr 11th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Girl, I love that first picture with all kinds of serious love; not that sorta, “oh that’s just lovely” kinda puppy love. We’re talking long-term commitment kinda love. Awesome.
Thanks!
on Apr 11th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Why thankee! I love my cucumber plant who just. can’t. stop. with the curly things… http://flickr.com/photos/fabrica-imago/