Gardening

June Gardening

Our garden is blooming this month, despite the June gloom! Check out the cucumber flowers.

Anne Trueblood

Anne Trueblood

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June Gardening

Our garden is blooming this month, despite the June gloom! Check out the cucumber flowers.

To start with, check out this root system that's in the water portion of the hydroponics:

Roots in the water!
Here's the whole table. Note how small the cucumbers started off
Our first chives sprout
Uh oh, trouble! This root is super tiny again.
Chives sprouted!
Check out all the roots on this red lettuce!
A harvest of lettuce leaves
Check out the lettuce stalk, it's pretty thick
The leaves are so red
More lettuce harvest
Our first cucumber!
Meanwhile at Grandma's, here's a potato flower
Again that the root is tiny, and about to snap itself off
Our new table setup
Another harvest!
The stalk is pretty tall now on this lettuce
More flowers and cucumbers starting
View from my desk
Remember our first cucumber? This is it now!
So many flowers!
And more cucumbers starting
Foggy day with cucumbers all across the balcony
Red red red, lettuce!
More chives!
Putting my feet up with the plants around

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