Patio plantation: progress report 5/8/25

I stay so busy, it’s hard to keep up the garden, let alone the blog. Now that I’m on vacation, maybe I can catch up a little. When I’m not in the hotel room or ship's cabin with my keyboard available, I’m going to dictate on my phone like I’m doing now.

I’ve lost track of where we are with this blog, so I will go on with our status as of May 1st.

The mushrooms did OK, but we didn’t harvest them before they dried out, and we can’t use them. I’m going to get another kit and take another swing at it.  With the patio garden, I’m going to post some pictures that’ll show where we’re at as of May 1. On May 8, we’ll be leaving for 10 days, an Alaskan cruise. I’ll be busy getting ready for that. I return to work the day after we get back. That means I won’t be doing much in the garden for a couple of weeks. Jane has a few days after vacation that might allow her to do a little in the garden. I won’t be able to post an update until two or three weeks after this post.

Just a few words to describe where we’re at right now. The potatoes haven't taken off. There’s nothing green above the surface where they were put in the soil. On the other hand, onions and scallions are doing really well. Hard to say how we’re doing with the carrots. Just recently put in the cucumbers in the the enclosed bed and some peas in one of the containers. The peas look like they might do OK, but the cucumbers don’t look so well. If  they don’t succeed, we may have to restart them. Here are some pictures.


Onions and potatoes
Peas, I think


Scallions
Carrots


Cucumbers



 

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