What are you planting this spring?

Aphids are very tiny bugs that you will often find in clusters along the vine and stems and undersides of the leaves of your plants. They suck the life out of your plants slowly. They can be different colors. Generally they don't leave big holes.

Bigger bites are probably something else. With all the rain, probably slugs or snails and I even see pill bugs eating everything this year.

Harvest update: Holy Giant Zuchinni batman. Sister-in-law's rooftop garden (house/cat/gardensitting, I am) is producing like mad. Ate first rooftop cherry tomato today. In the fridge, some beets and lettuce from my garden.

I'm jealous too. SIL's got it going on with the roof garden. My own tomatoes are wee flowers and suffering from something due to rain. But I reap the rewards of housesitting even as I also must scoop cat poop. Am off to my garden to pull some weeds. Enjoy your day.

Local, F. Greene. And when I say garden, I mean a few planters/pots on the roof. She's doing less this year, which makes sense, because its tough to bring up the soil and pots and watering isn't easy. (Way up is the fire escape or inside ladder that's similar.) But she's the kind of gal who can slap something together with a paperclip and gum, so it works for her.

Tomatoes-- from seeds and saplings and one volunteer that sprouted on its own.
Today's harvest surprise: Two red potatoes. I wasn't expecting that.

If you need help weeding, let me know.

Very nice Flexi. I shoveled some horse poop today. Built myself a compost pile finally.

Ha. No horses in the community garden, just horse poop. I have a plot, 10x20. This is a bed with potatoes, lettuce and a cubano pepper.

I planted them somewhere between 4 and 6 inches down. They are cool to grow, but they look sloppy for a while. You have to let them die back to let the potatoes grow fully, so for a while you have a plant that doesn't look too pretty. Then you dig 'em up, which is good fun.

I hear you can grow them in bags too.

Serious, yes. Because you are a fellow community gardener, I'll PM you. Must protect the garden from potato pillaging. Did you read Omnivore's Dilemma? It's like the mushroom foragers.

Tomatoes look great Flexi. Here's a red potato and baby carrot from my garden & corn growing in the boyfriend's garden captured on my crappy phone.

I forget the actual growing time of this corn--I'd have to look at last years calendar to tell you. I don't think it was early though--so maybe around 100 days? I'll let you know. This corn is still really young though...not taller than two feet yet, so it's got lots of time to grow. I bet you will be eating your cucumber by next weekend. Yay.