These four precious babies are the results of two months of tlc. I almost don’t want to eat them…
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Pickle Baby!
After a long wait, the gherkin produced female flowers. These are the flowers that have miniature cucumbers right behind the flower. No female flower, no fruit!
I brought two bags of compost back to the house, to pour onto my indoor garden (well, what is remaining: in advance of a two-week vacation, we harvested the greens: carrot greens, celery greens, beet greens [reds?], turnip greens, and parsley, and since the roots never really grew, I dumped the soil and we are finished with them).
So what is remaining, you ask? See for yourself,
from left to right: leaf lettuce, thyme, leeks, carrot, and parsley/celery
from left to right: green pepper, eggplant, cherry tomato, and cucumber
from left to right: basil and gherkins
We finally made it to Governor’s Island today, and stopped by the farm. I sorted and filled two (small) bags of compost! (my first time!)
The fact that this exists means Life is Good!
The indoor garden is growing growing growing. Considering they have only 4 hours of sun, and water when we remember.
Here is the latest view of the gherkins and friends (from l-r: gherkin, turnip, cucumber, fennel, iceberg lettuce, radish)
A look back at 277Q at 290 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A look back at 53K @ 437’s trip to the BBG.
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