Thunderstorm time! Almost each night now. Evening, sometimes into the morning. I'm fine with it as long as I can keep up my daily business, which is a lot these days. I did manage to sneak some gardening in, though - on the rooftop.
The rooftop garden was quite the mess. Everything was growing everywhere, bugs had taken over the green onions, and spiders had conquered every little space between the plants - without even considering eating the plenty of bugs. Not their favorite food, I guess. At least there were some ladybugs feasting away, and I hope that the spiders didn't get any of those.
So, Lily and I went to harvest. The onions had been in there way too long already, and weren't growing anymore. I used them as chives-replacement, anyway, but since we were in the middle of a strike, having a supply of onions is pretty nice, as some middle-women and men love to gouge prices. Pretty sure that none of the higher payments went to the farmers. Solidarity is not really thing anymore.
It was definitely worth it. We ate those onions for a week in every meal, and I re-planted most of the stumps, as I mentioned in my post about peas. Long live the onions!
Guess what? It's not only the stumps that are growing. As some of the onions were in seed production, I now have many very little plants of long (green?) onion coming out of the recently liberated earth! We'll see if they will make it. The last times, they didn't, just withered away quickly again.
The insides of the pots all looked like that. Most is grass or herbs that I don't have a use for. Sometimes it's Chia, Amaranth or Chamomille - that's fine with me, they look somewhat pleasant, especially the latter. Grass doesn't. So it had to go.
And yes, of course I also planted the peas. They're already a lot bigger than in the last picture. The rain does help a lot. I will have to put in the net or grid or wires for them to climb on this week.
This is what the garden looked like before the frenzy. I had watered everything a little to make it easier to harvest, and also so Lily could get her hands really dirty. And her clothes. No, that was not the idea, but she did it anyway. She did a great job harvesting onions and taking off the dry parts, though.
This is afterwards. A lot less onions. Since then it has changed quite a bit again, this was two weeks ago - as you can see by the peas in the picture above. And at last, a nice picture of one of the spiders that hang around there. I tried not to disturb them too much during my works, and they remained quite calm while the nets where swinging a lot under the work.
Isn't she a beauty? Or him. No idea about spiders, either. This is the third generation. The first, huge one was yellow-ish on the back. Ellie had a name for her, but I had forgotten it. Doesn't matter, she's gone, but left a thousand spiders. Some of them went down into the big garden, some staid up here. I'm happy with all of them.
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