A week later
As I mentioned in my previous post, our little herb garden isn’t doing so hot a week later.
For one, it seems that we were supposed to put the fertilizer fairly soon after potting them. So when some leaves turned yellow we thought it was just a case of malnutrition and we poured some liquid fertilizer late last week.
And as of this morning, the herbs and veggies are doing okay though two of the lettuces seem rather dodgy:
Herbs and veggies galore
And here’s a close-up of the dodgy lettuce:
Dodgy lookin' lettuce
However, if that looked bad, what I saw on the free tomato plant we got surprised me even more:
Time to go ...
While this surprised me, I didn’t do anything about it except water it. I figured the dead leaves will wither, fall, and turn into compost. Michelle, however, checked it online earlier this evening and decided it had a case of either a fungal or viral infection. Either way, it was time for the freebie to go. So shortly afterward I yanked the plant out, put it into a plastic bag and tied it up, hoping the other plants will be okay. We saw some of the other leaves and we think they’ll be okay.
Herb garden
My girlfriend (and I) decided to start a herb garden. As usual, this remained just a “decision” until last week when we got a chance to see a herb garden at her godparents’ place. After remarking how we’ve been meaning to start one of our own they took us to town into a gardening store and we got ourselves a few pots, potting mix, and some starter herbs and veggies. Here they are in the first morning after we re-potted them:
Lettuces
Above are several types of lettuces … four types in fact. But hell if I can remember them all. I’m not quite sure why some of the leaves are broken. Throughout the week last week I noticed as I watered them that there were quite a few broken leaves. Maybe the wind? We did have some windy days last week.
Herbs
And here we have eggplant and capsicum (aka. green bell-peppers) along with parsley and mint. The eggplant and capsicum will be moved out this coming weekend, time permitting.
Tomatoes and basil
We got a free tomato plant from a good food event at Hyde Park last week and we had also picked-up a cherry tomato plant at the garden shop, and one of the other kit actually came with another tomato plant so we’ve got three tomato plants growing here along with basil as we’re told that ought to keep flies away.
I’ve got visions of the Hanging Garden of Kings Cross (you can think of Kings Cross as a modern day Babylon …) but as I’ll detail in a follow-up post, we’ve ran into issues just this past week and I’d be happy if at least one lettuce survives long enough for me to pick-up some leaves for a sandwhich or salad!
