"95% Done" or "A Summer with the Godfather"

95% COMPLETE!

I spent two days this week putting most of the plants I started earlier this year with the exception of eggplants and a few rogue pepper plants that I couldn't find room on the porch for. The almost finalized list includes the following:

PEPPERS                                                     HERBS
7 Melrose                                                     4 Dill
4 Early Jalapeno                                           1 Cilantro
1 Carnival                                                     5 Oregano
                                                                    1 Thyme
TOMATOES                                               2 Siam Basil
2 Thessaloniki                                              16 Genovese Basil
2 Amish                                                       1 Mammoth Basil*
1 Medal Gold*                                            2 Sage
2 Black Icicle*                                            
1 Pink Ponderosa                                         LETTUCE ETC.
1 Marglobe                                                  Mesclun
1 Black Cherry                                            Spinach (Giant Noble)
                                                                   Mustard Greens (Southern Giant Curled)
CARROTS                                                 Chinese Kale
Danvers Half Long                                      
Snow

SQUASH                                                    EGGPLANT
 1 Straightneck Early Yellow                        Japanese Egg  
 1 Black Beauty Zucchini                              Louisiana Long Green
                                                                    Black Beauty*
BEANS
Yard Long                                                   RADISH
Trail of Tears                                               Helios
Dragon Tongue                                            Sparkler White Tip
Saint-Esprit A Oeil Rouge

GARLIC                                                     CUCUMBERS
Bavarian                                                      Marketmore
Bogaty                                                         National Pickling
Carpathian
German Red                                                ONIONS ETC.
Hnat                                                            Leeks (American Flag)
Kettle River Giant                                        Yellow Onion (Stuttgarter)
Transylvanian                                              Red Onion (Red of Florence)

*Obtained from other gardeners

That being said, hopefully everything will grow. The Squash and Cucumbers have been planted despite knowing that some cooler nights are coming soon (hopefully not below 48F) and some have had to be replanted because squirrels dug them up.

My Relationship with Vito Corleone

I would like to say I was thinking clearly when I designed this experiment but alas, it was the product of shear laziness. I decided to set up some of my larger tomatoes with the cages I built the previous year. Then, because I didn't want to wash the remaining cages with a bleach solution prior to setting them in, I simply placed them in the ground and tied them to a stake. A set up very much similar to garden the Don had in The Godfather (see below)

The garden of Vito Corleone (still from The Godfather- 1972), complete with Vito Corleone's corpse

 

 

 

"Vito Corleone" tomatoes next to the caged tomatoes

Note that this will be the first year I will have to actively prune the crap out of these guys, but I am willing to try it.


OTHER MISC. PHOTOS

Spinach, Radish, Mesclun, Peas, and Chinease Kale

Onions, Basil, and Tomatoes