I've been trying my hand at vegetable gardening lately, and so far it's been doing good. Usually I just kill plants. The 2 orchids I had didn't last long. I've had the bamboo growing for the last 5 years, but lately it took a turn for the worse.
I was going to take photos of them through the entire process from seed to where they are now but i was lazy, so these photos are from this morning. I also got work to buy me a new camera lens that is an amazing Macro lens. I think it made the photos look pretty good. Pretty crazy how just having a good lens can make a simple photo look really good. Since I got the new lens, I think i already took 200 photos or so of random stuff. I think i'll be using it a lot this summer, it just looks really good. Plus the ability to do normal photos with it or super up close stuff is amazing.
This weekend I'm building a shelf for the big self watering planter i bought. It's a really big planter, so they'll have lots of room. This way i can get them all out of that tiny pot together. It took over a month to get it, so it was either cram them together or let them die, like the one other zucchini. But i started a new one from seed, it's just behind the other one.
For anyone that knows plants, does anyone know how a zucchini grows? My one is pretty big, it's flowered a couple times, then the flowers shrivel up, and fall off. Is this supposed to happen? Where does the actual zucchini come in? Am I doing something wrong?
The whole setup with Christina's hanging basket in the background. So in that pot there is an eight ball zucchini, 2 container variety golden yellow cherry tomatoes, and a bush stye redskin red pepper. There is another red pepper in a pot of it's own. These are all going in the big planter, besides the zucchini, it was supposed to be just that in there from the beginning.
One of the little peppers. This is the only one that has started to hang so far. There around about 4 little ones on each plant. It's only 1/8" wide so far, so tiny, good macro!
Rocky looking coy
I really like this one him, came out a little more blurry then i wanted though, it's only focused on a very small part of his head.
Yeah, that's called extreme macro, that's one pad from rocky's paw. It looks amazing in the non scaled down version. you can click on it to make it slightly bigger, same with all the above ones.
3 comments:
I will ask my mom about your zucchinis - she was a master gardener in the past and usually grows zucchinis in her garden at home. I have to say though, something seems funny about having all of those plants crammed into one pot, so that might be part of your problem right there.
Yeah, i've got them in different planters now. It took forever to get the huge self watering one i ordered. So i got them all replanted yesterday
You are becoming quite a gardener. I love the picture of Rocky being coy. He is soooo cute.
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