The Backyard Chronicles 11

Update on our backyard. Somehow if you leave your radishes growing, they eventually sprout flowers. Cool!

Top-left: WHOOPS! Top-right: Bell pepper prefers hot weather Bottom-left: We have lots of basil! Bottom-right: Lots of mint also.

The Backyard Chronicles 10

Cilantro flowers!

This is the state of our backyard as of yesterday. Things are definitely starting to grow, slowly. The radish is growing nicely but I still have to move it to a deeper box.

And I need to plant these squash sprouts soon, like right now! The basil on the right actually smells like basil!

The Backyard Chronicles 8

I guess this is about week 8 into our backyard project. I suuuurreee have learned a lot about what to do and what NOT to do, failure is the best teacher right?

Sorry Howard, all of your artichoke sprouts, except for 1, decided to hate the outdoors and died but the radishes, in a week, are growing fiercely.

Here is my tin of gai lan, kale flowers, growing in a tomato can and to my surprise the mustard green that I thought were gone started to sprout again, happy days!

The Backyard Chronicles & Ikea Planting 7

We spent a good Saturday afternoon transferring what was left of the sprouts into planters. *Above Howard’s artichoke. We found chives and cilantro growing in few of the planters. We had these last year and they grew on their own, wow nature! Surprisingly leaving the sprouts in the sun for a whole week in the yard, some of the dormant seeds started to sprout and we some mustard greens back, hurray!! Come on warm weather!