Trimmed the dead flowers off of the large thyme and cutting back on watering the dry herbs; tarragon, oregano, and thyme.
Next up, when I return next week, more seeds into the trays, as well as seeding in place of basil, salad greens, and lettuce.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013
A couple of trips to Portland this month has kept me from posting but not from keeping the garden up. The tomatoes are busting like I've never seen before, beans coming up, kale, chard, and beets doing well. I got two summer squashes for the back bed and a 'patio' version that I potted. I also got another Bearss Lime that I put into a container and repotted the 'dwarf' tomato into a larger vessel. I moved the parsley into the back thin bed by the hedge.
Trimmed the dead flowers off of the large thyme and cutting back on watering the dry herbs; tarragon, oregano, and thyme.
Next up, when I return next week, more seeds into the trays, as well as seeding in place of basil, salad greens, and lettuce.
Trimmed the dead flowers off of the large thyme and cutting back on watering the dry herbs; tarragon, oregano, and thyme.
Next up, when I return next week, more seeds into the trays, as well as seeding in place of basil, salad greens, and lettuce.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
April 28, 2013
Planted beans seeds, various Spanish and Italian peppers. As I have a feeling we'll finally be feeling real global warming here in the Bay Area, if the past month is any indication, I figure to take advantage of something approaching real pepper weather this summer.
Parsley seedlings
Early Girl
Carmello
Costuluto Genovese
Sungold
Better Boy
Roma
Greens box
Garlic - having to pull the flowers now
Tomatillo and peppers
Herb pots
Bay laurel tree
Satsuma blossoms
Lemon
Oregano barrel
Sunday, April 21, 2013
April 21, 2103
It's been a while since the last post but will be adding one each Sunday for the current season.
I'd planted fava beans in the driveway bed back in October in order to rejuvenate the soil but since I injured my leg in November I had to let them grow to maturity. Very glad I did since the harvest turned out so well, both in yield and in quality. I hadn't really appreciated fava beans until I could prepare and eat them straight off of the stalks, now I'm sold on them as a winter-spring staple from now on.
I repotted all of the herbs that held over from last year as well as the new replacements I got this year.
I also could not plant the garlic seed cloves until I was off the crutches the first week of January. However it doesn't seem to have affected the yield or growth at all as it looks like it's growing right on schedule this year.
Tomatoes were planted a couple of weeks ago and are well on the way:
I'd planted fava beans in the driveway bed back in October in order to rejuvenate the soil but since I injured my leg in November I had to let them grow to maturity. Very glad I did since the harvest turned out so well, both in yield and in quality. I hadn't really appreciated fava beans until I could prepare and eat them straight off of the stalks, now I'm sold on them as a winter-spring staple from now on.
I repotted all of the herbs that held over from last year as well as the new replacements I got this year.
tarragon, mint
Back row: parsleys, dill, Italian oregano
Middle row: mint, dwarf tomato, catmint
Front row, lower right: mint
Back row: parsley, dill, oregano, chives
Middle row: dwarf tomato, lemon verbena,
Front row: mint, thyme, greek oregano
I also could not plant the garlic seed cloves until I was off the crutches the first week of January. However it doesn't seem to have affected the yield or growth at all as it looks like it's growing right on schedule this year.
Tomatoes were planted a couple of weeks ago and are well on the way:
Back: Costuluto Genovese, Sungold
Middle: Carmello, Better Boy
Front: Early Girl, Roma
Started the greens bed but for some reason can't get the lettuce and mesclun started so will be trying again. Chard, kale, beets, arugula, and radishes coming out now.
The Greek oregano wintered over ok. Leaves just started showing up again about 3 weeks ago after I did some fairly heavy pruning on the vertical dead growth from last year.
Bay tree resumed its growth after the scale issue last fall was resolved with the spray.
Cleaning out the fava bean bed
Lemons still busting out. Going to clean them out to bring to Jerry tonight.
And the satsuma is picking up flowering as strongly as it did last Spring, its first strong harvest since being planted in 2009.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
October 24, 2012
It's been a while, hasn't it? :-)
As we got the first real rain of the season this week, I picked the remainder of the tomatoes and cleaned out the box putting the cylinders away.
The satsumas are really kicking in this year with fruiting and, although a tad tart, are much sweeter than the few that came out last year. And the production seems like it will be much higher this year, to the extent that we'll probably have enough to avoid having to buy any at all this winter.
I also picked the peppers (padron and Italian frying) although the plants still look capable of producing more fruit for a while.
I sprayed the bay laurel with the insecticidal soap about a week ago and it looks like it might have done the trick. The leaves are still crappy looking but I think the progress of the scale has been halted. It remains to be seen what the tree does from here.
The basil is still growing but that may not last much longer as they are getting pretty woody now.
As we got the first real rain of the season this week, I picked the remainder of the tomatoes and cleaned out the box putting the cylinders away.
The satsumas are really kicking in this year with fruiting and, although a tad tart, are much sweeter than the few that came out last year. And the production seems like it will be much higher this year, to the extent that we'll probably have enough to avoid having to buy any at all this winter.
I also picked the peppers (padron and Italian frying) although the plants still look capable of producing more fruit for a while.
I sprayed the bay laurel with the insecticidal soap about a week ago and it looks like it might have done the trick. The leaves are still crappy looking but I think the progress of the scale has been halted. It remains to be seen what the tree does from here.
The basil is still growing but that may not last much longer as they are getting pretty woody now.
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