• she/her

My hobbies are all excuses to collect pretty colors. I enjoy knitting, sewing, running, trombone-ing, gardening, & sci-fi short stories. Coding when necessitated and occasionally for fun. Microbiology for fun & (non-)profit.


The weather service thinks the 100°F weather has finally gone!

This morning I have planted seeds for Early Wonder Beets, Touchstone Gold Beets, and Danvers 126 Carrots. All seeds are from Botanical Interests, gotten in their 50% off sale in late spring.

The beets are in the dill buckets, and I think they'll do fine. The dill were very polite about their roots and the soil is a good texture. Even if I don't get big roots, I'll be happy with tasty beet greens. I'm leaving one of the Dwarf Fernleaf volunteers-- it came up during late July/early August and just hung on through the hottest part of the year and has flourished with the break in the heat. If I'm lucky I'll get some seeds from it!

The carrots are in the Large Leaf Basil bucket, which was NOT polite about their roots. I cut them up and mixed and churned and tilled as best I could to get something the carrots might grow through, but I still have my doubts. We'll see how it goes and take notes for next year.

The Everleaf Emerald Towers Basil is getting a bit stressed/root bound because I haven't been trimming it as aggressively as I should have lately. I'm going to take a big chunk of it for pesto and that should help it out. I've been expecting it to bolt, but am only seeing a little bit of intention. I'll keep harvesting it until we get a hard freeze, hopefully!

The Dukat Dill also had some volunteers since I didn't get the seed heads in as quickly as I should have, but I didn't keep them around. I love the taste-- it's so much stronger than the dwarf variety-- but none were really established. I think next year I won't plant Dukat Dill or Large Leaf Basil-- being so big, they seem to have had trouble supporting themselves in a container in the heat.

... I still might try Dukat again next spring, though, it really is delicious. I'll just start it earlier.


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