Anybody else already get started? We have something like 9 billion tomato varieties this year, 50 million different peppers… and then a whole bunch of other stuff we probably shouldn’t be growing – since we could hardly care for the ones we had last year. But that is gardening right? Taking on too much, and griping about it the whole time… right?
What do you have going on in your garden… err basement… or… greenhouse?
We bought some tiny Passion Vine plugs at the beginning of the season for 99 cents a piece. If they lived fine, if not we were going to be out 2 whole dollars. Well they have lived and are thriving. The vines that we bought at maybe 6 inches are now running over the top of our 6 foot fence. Blooms began to show up the past couple of weeks but they had yet to open.
Until today!
James went home for lunch and took a picture for me, just in case something happens to the flower before I get home from work. He knew I would be PISSED if I missed it.
In the side view you can really see all the layers of this flower and this is what I am drawn to. They are so different and so beautiful. Alien-like at times.
In this view you can also see that the leaves have been chewed on quite a bit. Our passion vine houses two very fast growing caterpillars. We decided to leave them and let them have a constant food source. I’ve enjoyed watching them grow and hope to catch them in their cocoon.
To easy to show off blooms this month, we have lots of veggie blooms – so why don’t we get to it.
Above is our eggplant putting off its first bloom, we have never grown eggplant – so this is indeed the first eggplant bloom of our careers. Thank you… thank you.
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