Long Imperator #58
Expected germination: 8-12 days
Expected harvest: 77 days
36 seeds
07/18: Planted 2 per cell in 18 cells.
07/24: One cell excavated, perhaps by squirrel.
07/24: No visible change.
08/01: 12 of 36 (33%) have shoots 1/4″ to 1″ tall.
08/07: 14 of 36 (39%) have shoots 1/2″ to 1-3/4″ tall.
08/15: 14 of 36 (39%) have shoots 1″ to 3″ tall.
08/23: 12 of 36 (33%) have shoots 4″ to 6-1/2″ tall.
08/29: Planted out.
08/30: Stressed. 0″ to 5″ tall.
10/13: Harvested a couple of 2-3″ carrots.
Harvest: 87-TBA days
6 plants (pony-pack)
07/15: Bought.
07/16: Planted in upstairs window boxes.
–MJH
Expected rooting: 2 weeks.
Approximately 12 cuttings
07/08: Placed cuttings in jars of water.
07/16: Noted first roots.
07/20: Planted 1 cutting in pot.
07/22: Planted 2 cuttings in pot.
07/24: Planted all remaining cuttings in pots (about 6 cuttings).
–MJH
Expected rooting: 8 weeks.
9 cuttings
07/13: Planted 1 per cell in 9 cells.
–MJH
Pots awaiting new mint plants*
We sometimes refer to our Seattle house as “House of Blues,” although it is a very happy house. The exterior is painted in three shades of blue, and the nickname also signifies a love we have for certain Southern music.
My week of gardening included starting nine rosemary cuttings, planting six yellow portulacas in the window boxes for upstairs, and doing routine watering and clean-up of the front garden.
Today I noticed the mint starts had begun to root in their glass jars. They’d originated as a small bundle of organic mint from Safeway’s produce aisle and had been placed in water on about July 8. What valiant, assertive little sprigs these plants are! The roots form at the ends of the cuttings, not at nodes, and even the frailest little stems seem to be rooting. In the back herb-and-flower garden, four pots wait expectantly. When the mint cuttings have formed sufficient roots, they will join older mint plants from the front garden, which are already at home in the pots.
*In the foreground of the photo– strawberries.
Ed Hume / Gourmet Blend
Leaf lettuce, kale, endive, beet greens, spinach, swiss chard, sorrel, corn salad, radicchio, cress, and mustard depending upon availability.
Expected germination: 7-14 days
Expected harvest: 30-50 days
24 seeds
07/15: Planted 2 per cell in 12 cells.
07/18: No visible change.
07/24: Four to six cells excavated, perhaps by squirrel.
07/24: 10 of 24 (42%) have shoots 1/8″ to 3/4″ tall.
08/01: 12 of 24 (50%) have shoots 3/4″ to 2-1/2″ tall.
08/04: Planted out.
08/07: 2″ to 5″ tall.
08/15: 3″ to 7″ tall.
08/16: Begin leaf harvest.
08/23: 4″ to 9″ tall. Harvesting but thin.
08/30: 1-1/2″ to 6″ tall. Harvesting but thin.
Long pod / Cool weather broad bean
Expected germination: 7-14 days
Expected harvest: 85 days
12 seeds
07/15: Planted 1 per cell in 12 cells.
07/18: Three beans have pushed up enough to become visible at the surface.
07/24: Two cells excavated, perhaps by squirrel.
07/24: 5 of 12 (42%) have shoots 0″ to 3/4″ tall.
08/01: 6 of 12 (50%) have shoots 1/2″ to 2-1/2″ tall.
08/04: Planted out.
08/07: 1-1/2″ to 6″ tall.
08/15: 3-1/2″ to 12″ tall.
08/23: 7″ to 19″ tall.
08/30: 10″ to 25″ tall. In flower.
10/27: Started intermittent harvest. Good addition to soups.
Top - Spinach Leaf Miner Damage
Over a couple of days about a third of the swiss chard leaves developed large brown areas from the size of a quarter up to more than half of the leaf. The damage resembled Sunset pictures of Anthacrose and Excessive Sunlight but the circumstances weren’t right. Then we noticed small white blobs under the leaves but they weren’t fuzzy enough to be shed aphid skins. We have now decided that we’re dealing with spinach leaf miner.
The pictures are from a small patch that we just found on one of the remaining leaves. The white blobs – always in a row under the leaf at the edge of a brown patch – are the empty spinach leaf miner eggs.
Underside - Empty Spinach Leaf Miner Eggs
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