Well it has been a long while since my last post, but as you can see there has been much agricultural progress. My tomato plants, pictured above, are growing like weeds. They grew rapidly when in their individual seed pots, but since transplanting them into the larger pot above, they have really taken off. The average last frost date in Boston is May 5th, so I cannot put them outside yet, but given the recent streak of nice weather, I might start hardening them off a touch earlier than anticipated. My pepper plants are also doing quite well. They do not seem to grow with the same vigor as their tomato neighbors, but they are looking very promising. However, not all of my plants have faired so well…
The majority of the plants that I planted many weeks ago were not meant to be started indoors. In fact, only the tomato and pepper plants are supposed to be treated in this fashion. That being said, I haven’t had much success with my cool weather crops. The only plants that didn’t die off are my pole beans. They grew quite well for a number of weeks before starting to yellow and look a bit down for the count. When I saw this turn I left them for dead, not watering them or putting them in places that receive ample sunlight. I want you all to know that this is in no way a reflection of my future parenting skills, but does resemble my patience on the golf course.
The pole bean plants withered rather quickly, losing much of their green color and stopped climbing up the wires they were clinging to. However, the other day I noticed that the uppermost leaves of the plants still looked really healthy. I went in for a closer look and saw that most of the plants had little flowers on them, which was pretty exciting since flowers translate into future beans, which would also be a pretty good band name. Maybe Future Bean Philosophy, or Future Bean featuring Saucy Garbanzo. Anyway, a couple of days later I checked on the progress of my future beans and saw that THE FUTURE IS HERE! Check out my first bean! I can’t wait to eat it and all of its kin.
Last thing…I planted a bunch of arugula, spinach, and swiss chard up on my roof since they can tolerate the potentially chilly temps ahead, and they have already sprouted. MORE UPDATES TO FOLLOW!
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April 23, 2009 at 5:54 am
John Maloy
I think as band names go you should just go with Flowers Translate Into Future Beans… clearly a twee indie band with little chance of commercial success, but they, of course, are in it for the music, man… and the legumes.