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Post by sunfrog on Jun 14, 2012 12:25:16 GMT -5
June 14th, 2012
Today I harvested 1 zucchini (my 3rd one) and planted 8 Cosmos seeds behind my garden and 2 Cosmos seeds in front of the shed. I have never seen a Cosmos plant in real life and I am afraid they will be monsterous. Next spring I will plant more if I like them.
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Post by shoegirl on Jun 14, 2012 17:47:26 GMT -5
Hey Sunfrog, cool garden journal! I should start one too...
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Post by sunfrog on Jun 14, 2012 18:12:25 GMT -5
 I was going to make a website for my garden journal but then I realized I could do it here instead. I come here every day. I need more flower seeds to attract butterflies and bees and such. Also, it will make things prettier around here.
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Post by shoegirl on Jun 14, 2012 18:16:10 GMT -5
Here the birds often drop seeds probably when they poop, and we get all kinds of flowers (and sometimes tree seedlings) that we never planted! Yup more flowers in your yard will attract more bees and butterflies for sure |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jun 14, 2012 19:57:30 GMT -5
8 cosmos seeds! From 8 cosmos seeds, a jungle will grow. LOLL.  Well, thats if you spread more cosmos seeds from the flowerheads when they dry up. |
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Post by sunfrog on Jun 15, 2012 10:30:29 GMT -5
Ohh! That's what birds do! I wondered why I needed birds in my garden. These don't look 2 meters high. Maybe I should plant more. Hmm.. |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jun 15, 2012 12:03:14 GMT -5
Urmmm .. I think you'll need more than 8 cosmos seeds to get that effect. Hee. And I thinks this particular mix is called Cosmos Sensation.
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Post by sunfrog on Jun 15, 2012 19:00:46 GMT -5
June 15th 2012Today I harvested 6 Basil leaves and 6 or 7 Baby Carrots. I took the basil leaves off the top to encourage branching. I've never done that before so I don't know what will happen. I read it online. I don't think I will plant baby carrots again. They are too adorable to eat. It made me sad to harvest them. The other day I ate a Red Delicious Apple and planted one of the seeds in a pot. Today it sprouted.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jun 15, 2012 20:47:40 GMT -5
How long before apple seed becomes tree wid viable fruities?
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Post by shoegirl on Jun 16, 2012 1:01:24 GMT -5
Quite a few years P-lite. I think it depends how big and how fast it grows though..
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Post by sunfrog on Jun 16, 2012 21:58:30 GMT -5
June 16th 2012Today I harvested 1 more zucchini, for a total of 4 this season, and 2 small turnips for a total of 4 turnips this season. Today was the first monsoon of the season! It was awesome. All the neighbors started cheering the rain including me an my mom. We were both outside hanging laundry at the time. Most of the laundry was saved but a few things had to be left on the clothesline. We sat on the porch and watched the entire thing. After the rain had passed hundreds of bugs came out to dry off but they were too soggy to fly. After the bugs came out many grey lizards emerged from their rock houses and began feasting on the soggy bugs. It was an awesome display of nature! As the bugs dried off they began to fill the air and they flew everywhere leaving the earthbound lizards far below. It was a pretty awesome thing to see. Yay for monsoons!
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jun 17, 2012 3:12:35 GMT -5
Huzzahhh for the DELUGE! I know how much Arizona needs them! Now your cosmos will sprout & spread here & therein! Huzzahhhh! |
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Post by shoegirl on Jun 17, 2012 10:36:27 GMT -5
Yay for rain. I love lizards, they are the coolest creatures! You can have some of our rain any day. We get way to much..
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Post by sunfrog on Jun 17, 2012 11:39:43 GMT -5
 I just googled Nanaimo rainfall. It says you get 1077.9 mm per year!! That's 42 inches!! And Pea you get 736.6 mm, or 29 inches of rain! Tucson only gets 304.8 mm, or 12 inches per year. Waaah! Why is your rain in millimeters? That's weird. Stop being metric. lol. 1077.9 mm is insane! That's so much! You should live on a boat. Sasha should have a boat dog house. Your shoes should be boats. How can you have so much rain? Do you have a lot of frogs there? I think I am going to go outside to plant some more cosmos. It's a beautiful cool morning here. I think I will plant 7 more.
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Post by shoegirl on Jun 17, 2012 16:00:16 GMT -5
Yes we do have quite a few frogs here. I think they are cute (the little ones anyways).
I only know the metric system. They don't teach anything else in Canada schools. When patients have questions about temperatures in the American system (what is it called again)? I have no idea how to answer them unless I go online to a computer and use a converter.
It's weird even other stuff in health care like labs tests I discovered in nursing school after buying some text books that proved to be use less to me for that reason that other medical lab values are different systems in Canada vs the US.
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I was going to make a website for my garden journal but then I realized I could do it here instead. I come here every day. 
Well, thats if you spread more cosmos seeds from the flowerheads when they dry up.
I just googled Nanaimo rainfall. It says you get 1077.9 mm per year!! That's 42 inches!!