{"id":3999,"date":"2011-06-23T06:47:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2011-06-23T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:47:37","slug":"smith-jones-the-lorelei-a-midsummer-nights-status-report-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3999","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Jones, The Lorelei: A Midsummer Night’s Status Report – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Midsummer Night’s Status Report – Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

I continue the roll call of how my gardens are doing.<\/p>\n

Sunflowers<\/strong> – I planted a border of a one – two foot high variety on two sides of Smith. It is lush and full of promise.\u00a0 Some volunteers from last year are already blooming.\u00a0 Sometimes it pays to be a little careless with seeds.
\nZinnias<\/strong> – What a disappointment!\u00a0 In past years, I’ve had a lovely patch of a dozen or more.\u00a0 This year: two! I made several plantings but virtually no germination.\u00a0 The two are in the Lorelei and will produce at least some flowers.
\nCosmos and etc.<\/strong> –\u00a0 I scattered some various flower seeds in the center of Smith.\u00a0 Enough germinated that I think I’ll get a good display though now, they’re only about six inches tall and only green.
\nMarigolds<\/strong> – Still from seed I gathered from plants two falls ago, I have several dozen of these old friends in borders here and there.\u00a0 Some are blooming already.\u00a0 I depend on marigolds to add splashes of color.\u00a0
\nMums<\/strong> – I started a couple dozen from cuttings<\/a> I took from three existing plants.\u00a0 All have formed many new little branches from the first twig I stuck into soil.\u00a0 Should make excellent gifts this September.
\nTomatoes<\/strong> – Planted Roma, a beefsteak variety and a slicer, but somewhere between starting seeds and setting in the garden, I mixed them up.\u00a0 I don’t care.\u00a0 Planted in all three gardens, I have about 20 in all.\u00a0 If they produce as they ought, I’ll be swimming in ’em.\u00a0 I hope so.
\nEggplant<\/strong> – Planted a dozen plants in Jones.\u00a0 I’ve pinned a lot of hope on these babies.\u00a0 They better produce!\u00a0 At this point, most of the plants look pretty anemic.\u00a0 Depressing.\u00a0 Or maybe I’m impatient.\u00a0 Thinking about adding bush cucumbers to the bed, in case the eggplants don’t do anything.
\nPeppers<\/strong> – Last year we discovered we love pickled peppers, so I planted about twenty plants this year.\u00a0 Most are doing well.\u00a0 One is producing a lot of small, yellow, mildly hot peppers.\u00a0 I expected 5-6 inch yellow, mildly hot peppers.\u00a0 Wait and see if they grow more.
\nCastor Beans<\/strong> – Four or five gorgeous red plants already tower over Smith.\u00a0 I love these unique, inedible but beautiful garden denizens.
\nOkra<\/strong> – Thirty healthy little plants still grow in containers.\u00a0 I started them late, but they look good.\u00a0 Will set in the ground this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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