Garden, July 10. No new plantings since last spring. I got a garlic, newly growing from cloves I planted last spring. I pulled it up because I thought it was a weedy piece of grass.
It looks like a small onion, but it smells like garlic. We CAN grow garlic.
And plantains. They need attention, but they grow really well here.
The little feathery seedlings are dill, which self-seeded from such seed bearing flowers (below).
The flowers are at the upper left, and the skimpy roots are at the lower right. After they have gone to seed, dill dries up and is refreshed by the baby plants from its seeds. A possible project would be to see where the dill from the seeds I saved could grow in our yard in different times and places. Dill and plantains have completed the life cycle by dying back and propagating for future crops. These are self sustaining.
Garlic could become self-sustaining.
Basil (right of center)is growing well here, but not a few feet away, where it could not sink its roots in.
Carrots are taking off now.
Parsnips are growing well.
Kohrabi (light green in front) with a tomato plant behind it.
More tomatoes are visible among the plants in the upper left quadrant. The newly planted tomatoes, which had sprouted in June among the front yard plants, have all disappeared. I wonder if snails eat young tomato plants.
Cabbage has not done too well here. Here is a barely growing cabbage.
Lettuce grows, and I am going to see if I can get some seeds from these plants. Some of it may have seeded itself. The trouble with lettuce here, is that after snails become active, I am afraid they may pass on dangerous parasites that they leave on the lettuce leaves, unless I cook it.
