Inside and outside in June

5 June 2009

I’m trying to catch up a bit here with my garden record. The photos were taken on Wednesday, but the posts didn’t get written on the same day because I hadn’t done the ones from Saturday either, thanks to my apparent case of Phantom Jetlag that comes from being envious jealous of Lauren’s trip to America.

These posts get a little repetitive, I know, with all the “it hasn’t grown yet”, “it’s grown!”, “oh, a slug ate it”, but the blog record means I’ll know what to expect when next year. So I’ll know when I have to go out and look for slugs and when I can stay indoors watching CSI.

The plants that are getting a bit more warmth are indeed doing better than the others. A few of the cucumbers under the plastic bottles have appeared, but the spares that I planted and kept indoors are doing even better. So now I have too many cucumber plants. However, two beans on the end of the runner bean row didn’t come up, so I’ll put the fifth cucumber in that empty spot. Perhaps with written instructions to the slugs to leave the hell alone. Several of the runner beans have been bitten all to buggery, but are still trying to send up new shoots.

Also still indoors are my cherry tomato plants. They’re still pretty small and I only remembered last night that they were going to have to be planted out at some point. But … my babies!

The aubergines started life indoors, but have been outdoors for about a month and haven’t grown all that much more. That doesn’t mean they have had adventures though. One had about an inch long strip of the side of its stem bitten away and doesn’t have much strength, but refuses to die. Or grow.

Yesterday I went out and found another aubergine off on an adventure, something having dug it up in the middle of the night. The plant was as flaccid as can be, so I brought it inside and put it in a glass of water, where it perked right up over the course of the morning. It’s still there, because it’s so damn cold outside. I’ll plant it back out tomorrow, when I do the other things I need to do in the patch. Not that I can remember what any of them are. I knew I should have written them down somewhere.