urban kitchen garden design & guidance
1. Spinach was bolting – I cut it back and used it in an Indian lentil dish.
2. First sowing of cilantro bolted and I pulled it out.
3. California poppy is blooming.
4. Arugula is flowering – I must pull it out soon.
5. I pulled out the bolting red mustard and sowed basil around the bed edge instead.
6. The borage is blooming, encouraging lots of bees!
Borage blooms a luminous blue.
(True story.)
Overheard at the garden centre a couple of weeks ago…
Mother, to her 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son: What else should we plant in the vegetable garden? Do you want some more tomatoes, or maybe some peppers?
Silence from the son.
Daughter: I want to plant some flowers.
Mother: Sweetie, we don’t plant flowers with vegetables.
???!!!
Sweetie, this is for you!
Blooming California poppy and raab
The big change is the bamboo supports for the tomatoes, tomatillos, and lemon cucumber.