The yard
This morning I went outside to yank things up–that’s all the gardening I seem to be doing whenever I get out there, because there are so many weeds. Want to see what’s going on in our yard?
My favorite thing right now is the little patch of native sunflowers:
Melissa and I saw some lovely lantana growing out in front of Guglhupf (our favorite bakery), all pink and orange and yellow and perfect. I looked at our list of plants a few days later and realized that we were supposed to have lantana growing in the yard. The problem is, the leaves look a lot like mint leaves and too many of our plants have gotten overcrowded by weeds and by other plants spreading (I’m looking at you, coreopsis), so I didn’t know where it was. Today, I know: It is just in front of where we have the pots of vegetables, and it was kind of choked off by the love-in-a-mist remnants that I only yanked out a couple of weeks ago. Now it’s free and blooming.
Our smaller tomato is going through a burst of productivity right now. I’m not sure whether it’s because I got more conscientious about watering it or if it was just time:
The bigger tomato isn’t producing much and never has–I think we needed to be pinching it back all summer, and we did not. The tag said it was a determinate variety, but given the monstrosity of a tomato plant we have out there right now, I do believe the tag lied.
