Garden update – how everything is growing
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I didn’t spend much time last week in my garden. It rained most of the week, so I didn’t need to water. We have had some chilly windy days, so my sugar snap peas are holding on to the trellis and each other refusing to let the wind relocate them. I remember the first time I planted snow peas; I carefully helped all their long curly arms to get off of each other and onto the trellis. I trained and re-wrapped daily.
This year I let them find the trellis on their own. They are often one big ball of vines, crawling on each other when they finally secure themselves to the trellis. It’s fun to see how they cling to each other, kinda like we do in our family. There are often symbols of life found in my garden, helping me to be grateful for all I have.
my new sugar snap peas
swiss chard and kale
out with the old and in with the new, my old sugar snap peas – I cut them at the base of the trellis and will pull them off when they are dried out.
my broccoli
broccoli and bok choy, this is the first time I have planted bok choy. I think it will be great in stir fry
broccoli and bok choy
lettuce
I always have onions!
spinach
celery
broccoli
tomatoes
single stalk celery – this ones is doing great. I think I am going to put rubber bands on the other celery to see if it helps it to grow taller and bigger.
single celery stalk
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I am 70 and I recall my father, a Ky farmer, tell about raising celery in ‘field tile’ . by putting a tube over the growing celery before it bushes out, the celery would grow up through the tube to reach the light forming nice straight stalks. So, I started with cutting the top and bottom out of a soda bottle and placing it over my celery when it was about 4 inches tall..I am not sure if the tube should allow light around the sides or not, as the ‘field tile’ was ceramic tile and of course no light came through the sides, only from the top…My next experiment will be with a piece of black tubing to see if that will motivate the celery to
reach new heights forming stalks before it produces all the bushy leaves. Online education in gardening is fantastic, but it still takes trial and error to learn the most valuable lessons…Thank you for sharing with the rest of us urban gardeners..
Thanks for sharing this! So amazing all the things that make growing veggies fun and exciting! Let me know how it turns out with the darker tube. I am a science teacher so I love experimenting!
Best wishes to you and your garden,
Melanie
My tip for growing sweet celery is to blanch it with a sheet of folded newspaper when it’s approximately 8-10 inches tall, and tie loosely with twine. You can untie and adjust as they grow taller. After harvest, the newspaper can be composted. I give my celery a side dressing of bone meal for nitrogen at transplant time and halfway through growth, sometimes more often. Nitrogen improves your yield!
View this site with photos. It tells more than I can. Good luck!
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/celery/learn-about-blanching-celery-in-the-garden.htm