Here's the latest photo of FarmTina, taken this morning:
The corn, in the top row blue bins, is doing amazing! I can't believe how much it already looks like cornstalks. I guess that's obvious because, ahem, it's corn, so of course it looks like corn. (SHUT YOUR MOUTH. I'm a city girl. I've never actually seen a corn plant in real life before this!)
Also, I just put in the Brandywine Tomatoes I've been raving about, in the left-most green Rubbermaid tub.
Still waiting to be transplanted (aka, still growing in my mini-greenhouse-kitchen): green beans, eggplant, and another tomato plant of a different variety. I'm so close to being done! Well, done with the planting anyway...
You can keep up with farm photos on my FarmTina flickr account.
A tiny farm in the middle of the city? It's like you're living inside a storybook. Watch out for Mr. and Mrs. Raccoon. They might steal your corn!
Speaking of corn, how tall will the stalks get and how many ears of corn do you think you'll be able to harvest? Just curious.
Posted by: Heather | Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Hi Heather! The corn is sort of an experiment: In order for an ear of corn to produce niblets, each ear needs to be pollinated multiple times. This is no big deal in a huge corn field full of bees and pollen flying everywhere, but here in FarmTina, I'm planning to manually pollinate the corn just to be safe. Don't worry, I'll walk you guys through the entire process when it gets there...
If my pollination plan works, each corn plant should bear 1-2 ears, and I have 10 plants.
Posted by: Martina Fugazzotto | Saturday, May 08, 2010 at 11:36 PM
Soooo... you are going to be posting photos of you artificially inseminating your corn? Your blog is officially NSFW!!!!! Hahaha.
Posted by: Heather | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 11:56 PM