Day 10 - RED PEPPERS! ... and potatoes

Burans ... SWEET!





One potatoe, two potatoes, three potatoes ... more!

Day 9 - 3 Pots of Potatoes

I managed to get on the roof today and pot up 3 pots of potatoes (one round potato and two of the fingerlings) ... I used compost like the video a post or two back suggested so we'll see. It is supposed to rain today, tomorrow and the next day so that should give them a good start. I used 100% cotton pillowcases from Value Village - a nice heavy green one and two fleecey beige ones for the fingerlings and I put them into large cardboard pots (where I originally got them from I'll never remember) ... they've been up there since forever and I've been meaning to put them out in the recycle but they are the last things on my list and each year I conk out before they get brought down.

I also decided to bring the left over eggplants and peppers to the garden to plant them in the original tomato patch since it still had room.

video on greenhouse

Planting Potatoes

I found this video on You Tube ... it looks easy enough. I went to Value Village and bought a 100% heavy cotton pillow case which will hopefully work for this ... I might need a container for it to sit in ...

The Roof Tally So Far (minus more than a few or so)

These eggplants and peppers still need to be potted up or given away!



The Tally
16 Tomatoes
I Pot of Mint from Allotment
1 Pot of Rosemary
1 Pot of Sweet Peas, 4 ivy, cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) <- rennet cheese-making substitute (eat the stem)
1 sm pot lavender
7 pepper plants in 4 pots
2 eggplants in 1 pot
1 orange eggplant in a pot
chives & mustard greens
1 pots of sages
1 strawberry
Parsley(s), Gayla's Mint, Bloody Dock (needs to be repotted - I just read it will get pretty big ... not quite like the mustard greens)

I Still Need to Plant
Gayla's Naranjilla, Edame (3), cippolini onions, basils, eggplants, edible flowers, beans, peas?
ornamental glasses and ground cover



Find out the name of the third thorny plant I got from Gayla ... Morelle de Balbis (Solanum sisymbrifolium) but I don't think that's what it is from some reason.

Day 8 - Too Hot to Pot (Water Monitor Begins)

The Dit is doing well ... it's in with two broadleaf basils



I just went up to the roof and realized it's just too
hot to pot - i'll go back when it's quite a bit cooler!

Day 7 - Almost Done Planting on the Roof

Not such a great photo I know but it's as good as it gets! I am so tired.

It took days to finally get all the bags of soil, compost, 3-in-one, soil less mix and what nots up there and just a handful of hours (that's five:) ... to put most of my plants into containers. Lots of lettuce got tucked in under tomatoes ... more tomatoes this year than last. The 'Dit' finally got it's own pot and ditto - the other Whipper.



Now I'm doing a rain dance ... I wish I didn't have a pink rug - it doesn't go so well with muddy feet - albeit it's kind of dusty rose ... and I know What the What dusty rose am I nuts (I sometimes kind of really hate that I love dusty rose ... but I do ... it goes well with my toe nail polish I noticed tonight and that made me smile a big one ... it goes with taupe ... and I really like taupe ... it reminds me of raspberries in the dew ... I like it with my mango, vanilla and chocolate furnishings ... vanilla chocolate raspberry ... I like it with silver ... I like pink and black ... it's kinda like terra cotta ... aged terra cotta ... wine is a deeper version ... walking on it with muddy feet feels good too ... dustier rose & anything goes!

mid-August tomato haul from the allotment - no more time for paperwork

Maybe what I kind of don't like is that it's been stereotyped as a girl colour inferring it's one of the weaker ones ... OR ... maybe what I don't like is that it shows the mud). I also once thought of living surrounded in wall-to-wall dusty rose as being a little akin to being in a living womb kind of ... so walking around with mud on your feet inside of a womb - not coOL.

WHY ISN"T IT RAINING - it said it was going to?

Day 6 - Furniture is Moved

I believe a decision to place the greenhouse frame against the North Wall is final. It seems a perfect fit lengthwise with the gate to Charles' deck just on the other side of it giving enough room for the long storage containers to hold the irrigation system(s) with pots in front where the sun hits them in the afternoon. This arrangement also allows me to put a straight length of canvas over just the sides to give me complete privacy from both neighbours - can't ask for more - taking the canvas down when I'm not on deck will allow for full sun on the plants.

Whippersnapper's first red tomato

Yesterday the Whip produced it's first red tomato (way in the back - look way back ... there's a 2nd blushing peachy in front of it and two more getting there)! This was grown from seeds started on 20 February.