Gramma's amaryllis bloomed again. None of us have ever seen an amaryllis bloom in the summer! I was just reading a care article that stated that if kept in an evergreen state (where the leaves are allowed light and water all year instead of storing the bulbs for the winter), amaryllis will continually bloom. Plants are boundlessly interesting aren't they?
When I had decided that none of my pepper plants (from seed) where going to grow in time, I bought some pepper plants from the nursery. This is one of them, and its already got this beautiful little pepper on it! I can't wait to taste it, but it's got a little more growing to do.
The Boston pickling cucumbers are growing. Just a few so far, but there are lots of flowers and buds.
A handful of blueberries that I pulled off yesterday. They were a little tart still, so I'll be waiting a little longer to pick them. The second bush is going strong now that we caged it away from deer and bunnies.
We got our first yellow squash just today! We fried it up with some onion and zucchini (from the farmer's market) and was that ever good! (We also got corn, canadian bacon, cucumbers, peaches, and red onions. Yum, yum, yum!)
These are the garlic heads, going to seed. They're even growing already! We learned from a farmstand at the market that in order to get bigger heads, we need to pinch off the scapes when they grow. That will prevent all the energy from going into the seed and instead encourage it to grow larger bulbs! Guess what we'll be trying next year!
Until next time,
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