garden update:
- okra (my pride and joy): is still growing like a champ, can't get over how tall it is! it also has incredibly beautiful flowers that bloom from time to time, and then usually fall off after a heavy rain.
- lettuce: has started to go to seed, and when friends tried to harvest some for a salad on friday it tasted pretty bitter.
- cherry tomatoes: are ripening bit by bit, but what i think is late blight is starting to take over, even though i have been trying cut off affected parts of the plant when i see them. seems like now i'm not doing so quickly enough...
- herbs: the dill and cilantro never really worked out, unfortunately, but the basil, thyme, oregano and sage are still very happy! i may start to dry some of those out for winter use, in case they don't make it through the cold months.
PNC is putting up a green wall on one of its buildings in downtown Pittsburgh and it looks like the plants are almost all installed. The first photo shows when they were just getting started in mid-August. The second one i took this a.m. I'll get a better quality close-up once they take the scaffolding away... and once i figure out how to fix error E21 on my camera (lost the manual!)
i noticed the other day that someone ripped off part of the shepard fairey mural at the corner of 37th street and penn. just seems silly that people do stuff like that.
garden update:
