‘Nother post for Dave (and that mysterious person called Twitch)
A comment reminded me of something long overdue:
pics of the greenhouse being in use.
The outside seen from various angles:
The inside:
The terrace:
A so-called “balcony tomato” for cultivation in a pot…
… among the first we bought, and thus already starting on tomato production.
Although some of the tomatoes outside the greenhouse aren’t far behind:
tomato blooms
Hm, beans…
And back inside some of the seeds have been busy:
Don’t always believe “best by” dates. These Okra seeds were only supposed to keep till December ‘07 - and the package had already been opened!
The following pics are of the new ones I came across by accident in a home-improvement market. It was the only package they had (left?), and I immediately grabbed it.
The okras on the package look darker and more shiny than I know them, so let’s see what the plants will produce - if the filthy German weather doesn’t kill them dispite the greenhouse, that is.
And why are they “spineless” anyway??? Got no backbone, the fucking cowards, eh?!
+++ out of cheese error +++
+++ melon +++ melon +++ melon +++
May 18th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Aha! So that’s where you’ve been, sneaking around in an old comments section! I gotta say you’re lucky you showed up when you did. You just saved yourself from a major rodent infestation.
Ooooo, cute fuzzy little okra. We’ve never planted that. And is that rhubarb I see in that second picture? The large green leaves look kinda like ours, anyway. It’s been an unusually good year here for rhubarb.
We just planted tomatoes yesterday morning. The spinach is starting to come up already. I can only hope the rabbit doesn’t get it this year. Although it might have been wacked by the fox just recently. The neighbor had the bloody corpse in her yard to prove it.
Course with rabbits you never know, they come in bunches. So there might be more than one. 
I spent part of yesterday afternoon murdering dandelions in the back yard. *rubs hands together* The ones in the front yard are destined for the trash heap today.
The new weed puller I got works slick.
Now if things would warm up and stay warm we might get somewhere.
May 18th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Wow! A post for me! This is so exciting!
It looks like you have a very good set-up to grow lots of fresh veggies. Home grown tomatoes are really delicious. Store bought ones are always picked really green and they never taste as good as a tomato that fully ripens on the plant.
Are you going to deep fry any of those okras? Crispy okra is the best!
So, have you got an ant colony computer in the back yard?
May 19th, 2008 at 12:43 am
@ Lynnette: I don’t need to sneak around there; I’ve got email notification.
Anyway, you can thank the bad weather for that.
I had a long weekend as the new boss doesn’t take overtime for granted but insists you take free time some other time for it - Friday till Sunday off, yay. Alas, it was raining most of the time, so I caught up with stuff inside the house and then spent most of today at the pc.
They are cute, aren’t they?!
Now let’s hope neither greenfly (they do seem to love okra plants…) nor the cold get them and I will have a yummy fuzzy harvest.
Yup, that’s rhubarb, want some? I hate the stuff, and my father only very occasionally uses some of it, so we always give most of it to our neighbours and my colleagues. The plants have been there for years and are really good; we always have a good rhubarb harvest!
Funny thing (I think), in one Pratchett book Nanny mingles with a mob, and when the mob wanders on and leaves her behind, she stands there half-heartedly waving a torch in the air and mumbling “Rhubarb, rhubarb…” In German the same word - or rather “Rhabarber” - is suggested for crowd mumblings to make it appear that ppl are talking at cross purposes. Makes you pause for a second, eh?
Dandelions, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
Yeah, tell me about it. They’re forecasting frost for the night after next, so we gotta wrap up our tomatoes and probably better move the teeny weeny okras inside the house for that night.
@ David: Well, as you might vaguely recall the foundations post was for you as well. So there…
Indeed. All home grown veggies are better than the shop bought ones.
If I get a good harvest I might fry some, yeah. But don’t forget I like ‘em cooked and oozing slime as well.
Not yet, but maybe it’ll build itself.
I dunno, but looking at the melon plants somehow made me “say” that…
May 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Hi Mel
I don’t like Orka, we cook it with a lot garlic. and by a lot i mean A LOT.
We used to have a big backyard and fron garden back in baghdad and every season we would plant something new. but grandpa’s house had a bigger backyard and a really big greenhouse. I’m sure you two would have a lot to talk about and he would write you a longer comment. but since i understand almost nothing all I can say is that I enjoyed the photos and the beautiful colourse
take care
May 20th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Well yes, I do recall the foundations post. I recommended that you dig them deeper.
So, what sort of melons are you growing? Water melons?
May 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Tomato production huh? Sounds peculiar!
May 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
38 degress Fahrenheit this morning. Cold, cold, cold…brrrr. All the little tomato plants are shivering in their beds.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:55 am
I have been eating kiwis this week. Very sour, but quite tasty I think.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Hi Mel, what’s happening? Has your computer been abducted by aliens?
I am currently reading one of the newest new Dune books. It is called Hunter’s of Dune. It picks up the story at a point after Chapterhouse: Dune which was Frank Herbert’s final installment in the series. So far, it is quite good. Frank’s son Brian and a co-author have really expanded the Dune universe. I think they have done a pretty good job.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
OMGZ my blog is so totally back.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
hello mel, i hope u’r having a good time.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Hmmm, you know, this spamming thing works easier if you type a line and then copy.
Except you gotta remember to put the right number of spaces inbetween or you just get half a heehee.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:44 am
@ Attawie: Hhhhhhhhm, garlic… *drools*
Okra…. *drools*
@ David: Yes, and I dug ‘em deeper. You just wanted me to spend more money on cement, admit it.
@ Frans: [stereotyping] What? You’re Dutch. You should know aaaaaall about tomato production. [/stereotyping]
@ David: Scrill. Tshikkabirrrrrr.
@ Lelly: Yay! you lucky girl.
@ the Artist Formerly Known as the Kid: I guess I am. ‘N you?
@ Lynnette: *frowns*
I invited you to comment on my blog and toy with my smileys, not spam here.
You are aware I know your IP addresses (home and work IP I presume)….
*stern and threatening look*
Half a heehee indeed…
May 31st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Awww, I was just teasing.
Sometimes I need a break from all the serious stuff. Some people can be real stick in the muds on other blogs. 
Everyone knows my IP addresses.
I always use the same ones.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:23 am
So, how are the baby veggies coming along? Any interesting or funny veggie stories you would like to relate?
I heard that a watermelon sold for $6000 in Japan. It was some sort of very rare black watermelon. I suppose the buyer thinks its better than Viagra or something.
Btw, could you please translate “Scrill. Tshikkabirrrrrr.”? Its been keeping me awake at night for the past week.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Scroll taskbar as spoken through a beer induced haze?
June 11th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
@ Lynnette: Everyone knows your IP addresses? I strongly doubt that.
@ David & Lynnette:
Hi Mel, what’s happening? Has your computer been abducted by aliens?
Scrill. Tshikkabirrrrrr.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Everyone knows your IP addresses? I strongly doubt that.
Are you saying I am being paranoid?
Scrill. Tshikkabirrrrrr.
So, that’s a yes?
June 12th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Scrill. Thikkabirrrrrr……?????
oO
Translation, please.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
“Scrill. Tshikkabirrrrrr.”
So, is this what your computer says when the aliens insert their probe?
June 20th, 2008 at 8:05 am
So, how is the prickly pear? Any fruit yet?
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Looks like Mugabe wins after all.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
I saw Muggabee on TV today. He has a Hitler mustache. Bastard! His head really needs to stop a bullet!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Shhhh, David, you’re starting to sound like me.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Hey, mabrouk your win
.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Wait a minute please.
Loading……
Reviving Caesar..
23% completed
56%
79%
88%
96%
99%
mission complete
Caesar is now ready to communicate…
Nice greenhouse!
June 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
@ Lynnette, Mafdet, David: Good as the suggestion sounds, I doubt it means “scroll taskbar”.
Not the probe thing either I guess.
I think my pc was trying to speak their language, and as I don’t know it, I have no clue what it means.
@ David: I dunno; maybe lack of bees inside our house?
@ Lynnette: It’s so depressing what’s going on there now, yeah….
@ PH: Welcome back. Long time no see. Now leave a relevant comment, please.
Well, yes, you can say I am so totally not into soccer…
@ Caesar: Are you….. are you… an AI?????!
Well, yes, I like the greenhouse too.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
What I was reading in the paper today about Zimbabwe was horrible. *sigh* If there is anyone who shoud be on trial, it’s Mugabe. Although I’m starting to like David’s idea more and more.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am
The Caesar has awakened!!!
Mel, perhaps you could put the prickly pear outside where the bee are?
Lynnette, someone said something about Muggabee going to Egypt and possibly getting mummified. Works for me.
The new Hulk movie is really really good!!
July 1st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Damn, I even previewed this time!
…where the bees are! However, if there are Muggabees in your yard, you might want to keep the little cactus inside.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Lynnette, someone said something about Muggabee going to Egypt and possibly getting mummified. Works for me.
Sounds good to me too.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I think the program froze again though (Caesar).
Muggabee going to Egypt and possibly getting mummified.
I think he merely got venerated though…… again….
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
No! I’m here! There is nothing wrong in my program! I was idle for a while. By the way, some friend called me this morning to tell me that I passed all the 2nd course final exams!
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Yay!!!!!
*opens bottle of champagne*
*toasts Caesar*
*drinks it all herself*
July 6th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Congratulations, Caesar!
Mel, shame on you, you could have left a little…
July 10th, 2008 at 1:22 am
And now to something completely different: What were the first symptoms of your “black hairy tongue” again, Sis?
July 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
@ Lynnette: *staggers*
@ sis: Whoops, you poor thing. Get over the evil effects of your medication soon!
July 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
You have the black and hairy tongue disease? Maybe you were just stung by Muggabees and are confusing the symptoms.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
@David: If someone managed to put a few Muggabees into my penicillin capsules, that may well be the case.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Now if Mel had left a little of that champaigne, Mafdet, you could use that to forget all about that black hairy tongue.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
But, alas, there’s no champagne left…
July 17th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
What’s been happening lately in Melville?
July 19th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
+++ MELON MELON MELON +++
error at adress 41, Treacle Mine Road
divide by cucmber error.
reinstall universe and reboot.
+++ MELON MELON MELON +++
upto book 23 now! thass right! i just finished reading my 23rd consecutive discworld book!
so how are you? been a looooooooooong time since we talked or anything..
sorry, am busy. job. a crappy, albeit a PAYING one.
sigh.
so how are you?
July 24th, 2008 at 2:22 am
reading The Truth and going strong!
(also reading Swedish language lessons AND Marvel Zombies limited series. i wonder if all this is getting mixed up in my head. something isn’t.quite.right.)
July 26th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
23?
23?!
Oh God, I’m so far behind. That’s what I get for getting sidetracked by history and fluffy serial killer books.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Melantrys is wishing everyone a happy eid and cannot be online due to computer problems! so if you are a fellow camel-driver(ess), HAPPY EID FROM MELANTRYS!
oh and me as well
September 30th, 2008 at 12:43 am
oh and i did finish all Pratchett books some time ago, now reading Catch 22 for the nth time.
if you can, check out World War Z, that book is made of pure class and win!
October 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Hello there,
I hope you fixed your pc matter!
I issue a free gardening magazine, we are indoor-oriented and would like to begin the new age with a new kind of contents.
We are contacting selected people around the web who love to grow itself for hobby or to resell, or just cause veggies’ prices are crazy.
We would publish reports (how to built, step by step, a greenhouse would be a great entry, for example), articles, diaries, tests, growing-related experiments.
In Italy we often give to our collaborators greenhouse supplies or hydroponics systems or something.
For the rest of the world we only can offer some free ad space on the magazine (we have a paper version and an online one, we are pretty popular), and your name and link showed with everything you want to send us.
Obviously we translate the articles for our readers.
So, sorry if I have been boring, and if I wrote a comment (just cause I can’t find a direct email, it’s not in my intention to spam).
I’d be glad to read what you think.
Thank you, have a great day!