ON MY GOSH MY CORN IS TASSELING!!!!!!!!
Yes, my first 10 corn plants are growing up! They are teenagers in love! They are trying desperately to make little corns! HOW COOL IS THAT????
I’m so excited. I was getting worried… I mean, I have about another 30-40 days of probably okay good weather, so I’m hoping to actually have a few ears of homegrown corn this year, but I was getting discouraged when it was all just, well, green. I have been pretty busy the last couple days and hadn’t spent any time over the on ugly side of the moby, so this morning… I was SO pleased to see that the few first plants were actually tasseling!
You know, I need to stop calling the backside of the moby, the ugly side. Because it’s slowly becoming, not ugly any more. Look at all these beautiful sunflower plants! Reaching high and getting flower heads on them. Soon, another week or so and we’ll have flowers and corn and pumpkins all over there! Hardly ugly any more. Hmmm…. Backside doesn’t really sound good either. It’s the southside… Yeah, that sounds nicer. Southside of the Moby Estate. Yeah.
You can see how tall the stuff is getting… Gypsy is a pretty tall dog, she’s about 30 inches at the shoulder…
We can actually see the flowers from inside the Moby… that will be cool. I’d love to plant some dwarf fruit trees over on this side as well, but I’m not sure that will happen this year. I will be putting in a long raised bed either late this year or early spring, where the staked off flower and gourd plants are now. It will be easier to control weeds and edge it and all that.
The two southside beds are doing well, corn in there is growing good, but not tasseling yet. Probably within the week though, as they were planted about 10 days after the first batch. There are rogue radish in that bed, but they are not doing very good.
I’ve decided that radish are off the list at the moby farm. They are not doing well, not in two different batches. I thought they would be fun to show how quickly something can grow, but all I’m getting is big leggy top growth and very little radish. And there is the fact that no one in my family likes radish. HAHA… I planted them merely to show the kids how fun it is to grow such a quick crop and they have failed twice, in two different locations! They are off the team for next year, that’s for sure!
Have had a hard time with cucumbers as well. Water is surely one of the major problems… they have been so touchy! I am really making my lists and plans for next year already… seeing what is working and what is not. What is the point of slaving over a plant that doesn’t like our environment and that you can get at the farmer’s market for $6 for a peck! (And that is ALOT of stuff… Jessy counted over 50 pickles in our peck!) When you figure all the water and time and space for 3 pickles… (our yeild at the moment) that is just something that doesn’t need to take up space. Not when like our tomatoes or peppers or beans are doing awesome!
Broccoli and cabbage are doing really good too! We’re going to get even more broccoli after our first cutting… way cool.
The plant that has surprised me the most has been my cabbages. They are so pretty and big… dense heads. I can’t wait to make beautiful slaw out of one and use another for corned beef and potatoes and carrots in the crock pot this fall. I am definitely going to plant several more next year.
The Wheat Field…. otherwise known as the Kitty Jungle.
It was sure fun to plant it and watch it grow. But thrive it did not. But the kitties have sure had fun with it. There are kitty swirls all over in it, where they lay and wait for an unsuspecting antelope or maybe a water buffalo to pass by. I have laid in the hammock and watched them stalk each other in it. They love the stuff.
I need to go and cut a little bundle of the dried mini-heads for a little wreath or perhaps just a little shock of it for prosperity. Next year, that will be the corn field… that’s the plan at least.
The potatoes in the grow bags are flopped over and starting to get a little yellowy and finished. Not a lot mind you, but starting. I know you’re supposed to wait till the top pretty much dies off, but i think as soon as we’re out of the potatoes we have in the house, in the pantry, we are going to sacrifice one of the 3 grown bags and see what is in there! We’re just dying to find out how it went! Another week or so I think.
Marie, our first grape vine, is doing wonderfully! She has beautiful grapes on her vines and they are starting to turn beautiful and purple.
Louise, her sister vine and planted two days later, is not doing well at all. And they are right next to each other and get as much sun and water as each other! Guess Louise is just not really feeling the love here at the Moby. We keep hoping Louise will start to perk up and all. We got the vines just as a lark, they were 50% off at a local nursery and we thought they would be really cool growing up and over the fort on the side of the shed. We installed some big cup hooks and Marie is loving it. Maybe Louise will come out of it.
I tried one of the purple grapes, but they were really sour. I imagine it still has to ripen and all. They are called Sunbelt grapes, and it’s really neat to see them loaded with fruit already.
The mammoth sunflowers are finally flowering and wow, are they tall. At least seven feet, and a couple are eight feet at least. I can not even reach the top of a few of them with my finger tips! These are the ones that we actually planted.
One or two have actually bloomed… but I think they could probably use a good rain shower. I think we’re due for a couple days of rain this week and we really need it! I had to water this afternoon, everything is getting a little droopy. Next year, definately need to make some sort of drip irrigation system for the big beds. I’m planning it in my head, how to do it cheap enough, but easy too, probably with those easy connect hose connections. It would be much easier to use drip hoses throughout the day then to stand out there with the hose for 2 hours! It takes a good while to give all 600 square feet of garden water!
One of the fountain grass plants I got at the Mother’s Day sale at the Toledo Botanical Gardens is pluming. It’s very pretty. Up at the front of the Moby estate, with our little dwarf peach tree and some day lillies and our rock. I need to get a little more mulch and trim back the tree a little bit, but it’s nice to see the grass thriving.
My two big pots by the front door are looking very pretty. I love the bright greens of the sweet potato vines and the wave petunias. It’s not flowering too much now, and I think next year I’m going to put some tall annual grasses in them, to add some dramatic height to them as well as the overflowing vines. I love those big old pots. A neighbor gave them to me when she moved in Perrysburg and they weigh a ton with dirt and all in them, but they look nice on either side of the steps.
All over the black eyed Suzies are doing great! I love these late summer bloomers… lots of nice color. I got them last year when everything was discounted 75% and they are doing great. Pretty soon I need to start watching for more perennials deal like that. I want to just plant them all over the place and let them go to town. When they are only a buck or two at the most, even if you get half of them to survive the winter, it’s a great deal. Actually I only lost two of the ones I got last year and I think I got about 15 or 18 plants. Butterfly bush are doing great too. I probably should have cut them back a bit half way through so they would bush up a bit more, but that’s okay, because they are beautiful and tall, even if they are a little leggy. We’ve seen a lot of different butterflies, they just love the stuff.
Well, that’s the tour! I didn’t do one last Sunday, because it was kind of the same as the week before, and I got sidetracked. But this week was really starting to change and all, so that’s neat to see the changes. Got another good month of gardening, I think… I planted some late crop brocolli and spinach and peas. I think they will do well before the fall really get here. My last crop of green beans are already putting forth little beans, so I think in a week or so, we’ll have yummy green beans again. Pole beans are okay, but I love the green bush beans best.
Hope everyone else is having a great time with their gardens! I’m so excited to have harvest almost 20 pounds so far. We have so enjoyed our garden meal additions… yeah, sure, we couldn’t live off it yet, but it’s a lot of fun to garden and it’s very rewarding to go out and pick a fresh tomato and slice it up for a meal. Hmmm…. I think home grown BLTs for lunch tomorrow… on homemade bread with our own tomatoes and local bacon and lettuce from the Farmer’s Market… sounds goooood!
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