Geek Gardener

Hello there. I'm Matt and I'm a computer geek. My fiancée Nancy
is a big gardening fan and she gets a great suntan pottering around in our
garden dealing with plants and flowers and things whilst I waste away typing.
I have therefore decided to redress that balance by trying to grow something
myself this summer. This site tracks my efforts.

Sun 04 July 2004

A bud!

Filed under: — matts @ 11:15 pm

The nasturtiums are rampantly attempting to suffocate their pot and take over the entire patio.

Behind the leafy façade there is a spaghetti-like jungle mesh of stems competing for light and water.

And, amongst all that chaos, a bud has developed! I was wondering if the nasturtiums would ever get around to actually flowering - and now it looks like that they will (eventually) as Mr Batty found this yellow thing whilst waiting for the chicken to roast. I shall be monitoring carefully in the next few days for more buds…

Re-Ordered

Filed under: — matts @ 11:07 pm

To avoid sunflower one growing into the tomato pot (which is suspended about six feet from the ground from the old basketball hoop mounting) and creating some sort of sentient mutant tomato/sunflower hybrid creature capable of speech, I have re-ordered the sunflowers so that they are in reverse numerical order as you look at them from the garden. This means that number one is now on the right and number four is on the left. This replaces the previous father-son-daughter-mother (1-3-4-2) "family" formation.

Sunflowers one (shown here) and two also now have some beautiful leaf arrangements at their peaks.

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