Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Seasonal progress, greening thumbs

The LBC garden is growing nicely.  The beans are shooting right up; hopefully we'll have better luck with them this year than last.  We put in some raspberries and rhubarb, both of which are doing well.  There are flowers on the cantaloupe, too!  Oh, and I mustn't forget the tiny okra seedlings, which I hope will produce as well in the LBC garden as the ones in my own garden did last Summer.  

Elsewhere -yes, we do have an elsewhere this year!- things are progressing nicely as well.  Up in Mason, Ohio, at the home of my good buddy Chris, we're trying out the "fire and forget" concept, whereby I drop off a grow-box (of, in this case, zucchini and cucumbers) and the single instruction to not let the water reservoir run dry.  So far, it looks like I've been able to make a gardener out of my friend: