October 8, 2010

photos of my garden plot

Here are a few pictures of what’s growing now in my community garden plot. My lettuce is finally looking good. I have lots of oak leaf coming along. I can start tinning this soon. At home, I have smaller lettuce seedlings that are looking good too: mostly Prizehead, escarole and red romaine. Other greens growing include: red bok choy (I think), mizuna, escarole frisee, spinach and arugula. The broccoli is forming its second set of heads now that the weather has cooled off. Some of these are quite…

October 6, 2010

wet aerial view

Seems like it’s been raining all month! Plus temps are falling. Summer’s gone. Cukes and tomatoes are looking ragged. With the dampness, I haven’t done much work outside and chores are waiting. This weekend is forecast to be dry. I want to clear out the cold frame, replace the plastic and fill it with baby seedlings that are growing inside. I’ll also plant clover and winter rye under the tomatoes and in the empty beds. At my community plot, I’ll plant garlic. Maybe also consolidate the fall greens and put…

September 28, 2010

my kitchen garden

Here’s the vegetable garden I grow on the side my house. This is the view from the east – the shady side. That’s the potato bed in the foreground. The cold frame is at the far right in the bright sun. It is mostly full of cucumbers right now. They are amazing this year. I pick 2 or 3 a day. Much more than I can eat. I will make another batch of pickles soon. On Sunday, I removed the melons from behind the cukes (they did not do well…

September 24, 2010

my plot on last day of summer

Lucky I have the giant sunflowers and big purple hyacinth beans this year, because right now, there’s not much else going on in my garden plot. Well I do have a big patch of basil, a patch of sweet potatoes that I really have high hopes for, and nice chiles. But not much else. The beans all succumbed to the beetles. It was a terrible year for beans in all plots at our community garden. I have empty pole bean tepees and empty shell bean beds where I had to…

August 30, 2010

end of August garden aerial

I’ve worked on several projects in my side yard the past two weekends. I have been fixing up a little flower garden next to my cold frame (bottom center of this photo), I’ve mulched and weeded the vegetable beds, and I’ve set up a new grape arbor just to the left of this photo. I’ll post separately on each of these projects. If you want to, you can click on this photo and mouse over to what’s planted where.

August 6, 2010

aerial

My side yard garden has had better years. It’s so shady! But the cold frame is filling up and tomatoes are s.l.o.w.l.y growing. I planted my Solanacea (tomato-related plants) here (instead of my community plot) for rotation this year. Click on the photo to see what’s growing.

July 24, 2010

photos of my vegetable plot

July 22, 2010

my garden after vacation

I love exploring my garden after being away. Every bed has surprises. Especially the squash beds! I will have to get my squash bread recipe out to use the big ones I discovered. (Or sneak them over to the compost bin…) I have an enormous Long Island Cheese pumpkin already. Must be about 1 foot diameter. Also a couple other types of pumpkins. My popcorn needs fertilizer. I meant to do this before vacation, but ran out of time. It is 5 feet tall now, and tasseling. The ears will…

June 29, 2010

Mom and Dad’s vegetable garden

Can you believe the size of these vegetables! Twice the size of mine.

June 1, 2010

garden aerial – with house painter

Ah yes – the house painter is here. We are (he is) painting the house green. I’ve always wanted a green house! And down below, my garden is doing good. The covers are off the cold frame, but its still early in the season. All the beds are planted but the plants are still small. Seems to me that I’ve spaced them too far. I’m tempted to fill in all that extra space.

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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