Friday, May 20, 2011

Growth, at night too!

When you first plant your garden you get really excited. You have grand ideas of the crops and produce you will be picking. You go to bed and dream not of sugar plumbs, but buckets of tomatoes and bushels of corn all garnished with the great healthy herbs your growing! Then you wake up and realize that you put them in the ground and they have not grown but more then a few inches.

So you get your camera out and document every little change you can find.





What I found was that my green bean plant had stretched out it's tentacle and grasped onto part of its cage. It was finally big enough to use the cage. Made me happy.

So as you can all see, the little changes make all the hard work worth while. Very pleasing to see the plant filling out its living quarters.

But once the thrill of your tiny growth has worn off you start to get bored. and at this point there is almost nothing you can do but wait. Sit and watch them grow.
I deal with this problem of boredom by going and buying more fun things for the garden.
I went out and purchased 10 of those solar powered lamps that are super cheap. I actually went to the dollar store to get them! great buy. I was thinking when I got them home I would have about a 75% rate of success. But to my great surprise all of the one dollar lights worked. HOWEVER they are not very bright. They really look cool but stay light for about 3 hours before dying out.


 If you want some of those cool lights


OK, thank you all for reading! have fun, and get out there and plant some solar lights!

20 comments:

  1. Patience, Patience, Patience lol.

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  3. You are doing better than me. My poor zucchini did not appreciate the cooler weather we had here earlier in the week. The tomatoes were very happy though. I don't get it...whatever. Hopefully the zucchini bounces back! Keep up the good work!

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  4. The lights are pretty nice to me, even if for just a few hours.

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  5. aww its like a little baby watch it grow!

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  6. i love the visible growth pictures

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  7. So what kind of cages to you have? did you buy them online? what are they made of and what are the measurements?

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  8. i love the lights at night :3 i need a garden :(

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  9. The progress is looking good, must feel awesome to grow your own food :D

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  10. good progress! I should pick up some of these lights myself

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  11. I'm trying to grow jalapenos in my apartment window... hopefully it works!

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  12. "So you get your camera out and document every little change you can find. "
    I cant see the change? or it's the actual change haven't changed that's why it's changed? NOT! YES!

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  13. those lights actually make the garden look very nice. Almost like a fairy playground.

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  14. those lights are an excellent idea, i may get some

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  15. aww cute plants-- giving me all the reason to go outside in the 90 degree heat and start a garden.

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  16. thats pretty cool. my friend is going to start his own garden!

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