#veg patch

Been putting off making planters for the new veg patch for weeks 😅 really got to get on with it now though.

Main issue is that the entire area is sloped. Like really sloped... into a beck sloped. So... that's going to be fun 🤣

You like my amazing, very professional, sketch? I am technically a qualified joiner honest 😂

They've been sitting on my window sill since this post and they seem to be happy and healthy so far. I built my mini greenhouse today so I'm ready to sow some more seeds this week...

A lot bulbs poking their heads up in the garden. A purple crocus and some snowdrops are even flowering. Here's a snowdrop pov u r worm:

The last time I told you about my Squashes, a litlle over three months ago, I was very happy about my growing Red Kuri Squash, and hopeful about my butternuts...

It turns out no butternut squash grew from these beautiful flowers in my Bean and Squash Square, but my Red Kuri Squash got slightly bigger and heavier, and a deeper orange colour over the Summer and the beginning of Autumn. 

I kept watering it regularly, oftener when it was hotter, never directly on the vine (or the fruit), but at its feet. Over time, the vine browned; I kept the squash on it nonetheless. It seemed happy!

And today, I finally cut it from the vine and harvested my first (and only) squash, a beautiful 475-gram/1.05-pound Red Kuri Squash!

Given the proper Adventure growing Squashes has been over the past few years, I am absolutely delighted with my little harvest this year. I have learned, I have been patient and I have persevered, and I have a gorgeous little squash as a reward! 

My rooftop community garden illustration, pre-colouring!

Might release this as a coloring-page for people who like to obsessively colour in silly little details. Like me. 

(By which I mean I’m a person who likes to colour silly little details, not that I AM a silly little detail, but I guess that’s also true.)

Always wanted a veg patch of my own, and now my 1st seeds are in the ground!

Tales of Today

So I finally planted out the rest of my seeds. Plus the small plants that I had growing on my windowsill. Cross your fingers for them.