Friday, September 5, 2008

my harvest from yesterday...


my newest seeds that have been planted - lettuce, fava beans, red and yellow onions, sugar snap peas, snow peas, chinese cabbages, broccoli...etc...




my california native plants are still alive. i will eventually have to find a spot for them.


one of the locations in the left garden where i have cultivated the soil. i planted a fava bean seed there last weekend. i'll probably give it another week to germinate. i seriously want to remove all the plants in the left garden (except for the european plum tree) and thoroughly cultivate that area, like i did for the right garden. i think because i didn't do this in the first place, the plants in this area are having a harder time to grow. the soil is just too compacted with the clay. i just may do this in the near future...


the plum tomato plant...its scragly but hanging in there, if those small beetles like things dont damage all of my tomatoes.


the chaotic growth of the sweet 100 tomatoes. tomatoes are still being producte but this plant sure has seen better days...anything that i can do to help it?


the new pea and bean bed.


as with the last group of soybean plants, THIS is the only flower-looking thing i have seen so far on these plants. they look like buds, but i never seem them actually open. maybe they are a night-blooming plant?


salad mix. the reason why they are so bunched up like that is that i had them growing in 2" x 2" peat pots and i have planted them all together here, in the pea/bean bed


here is an overview of that pea/bean bed.




cucumber plants - for the most part, they are growing strong with a few cucumbers popping up here and there.


my last hopes in eating some bell peppers from my garden. these two were grown from seed and planted between the two grape plants. they look quite strong *knock on wood* and they are now blooming so here is to hoping! the bell pepper plant that had the peppers growing on it...well, something is happening to it. it has wilted. ive stopped watering it for a week no changes...i started watering it a bit more this week, so far no changes...i have no idea what is wrong with it. so i think i am starting to give up on those plants in the left garden.


our small 2-plant vineyard. no grapes this season, but maybe next.


i think the sweet potato plant is the MOST happiest plant in the ground. very prolific, nice ground cover...im just wondering what is growing below the soil...it has not started to flower yet, which seems to be a sign that potatoes are growing. i think its supposed to start dying back before i try to search for edible roots. i have to do some researching...


more pea and bean plants. i also have a carrot bed between the first two bean plants.


the watermelon plant. it has that small watermelon there, but no changes have occurred to it. i'm leaving that one on until i see the vine, which it grows on, start to die.


the new zinnia plant that i bought last weekend. it should bloom soon.


more pea and bean plants.


the almond tree with more bean plants and some lettuce growing underneath it. i have seen the outer shell on some of the almonds start to open up...its no where completely open, but i see a slight crack...we'll see what happens. (and if the squirrels around here leave my tree alone!)


these are pictures of the very first plot i planted with fall crops...(this is a spinach plant)


michihili and pak choi


broccoli, pak choi and beets


beets and pak choi


broccoli, beets and swiss chard


this is from the 2nd planted plot...swiss chard and beets


broccoli and swiss chard


beets


this is the latest cultivated plot. it is still waiting for the garlic cloves that should be coming in any day now. it still has some time to work in the nutrients from the compost and organic fertilizer i placed on it after cultivation.


the latest planted plot. in this plot there are all the red and yellow onions that sprouted for me, plus a few carrot sprouts.


right plots overview


just a few pictures of flowers from an orange marigold and spanish tarragon growing between one of the right garden plots.




so the tomato plant that i am unsure of what the name is, is starting to grow some really large tomatoes. i was told from the seller of this plant that it could be ernie's round, so i guess i will stick with that name...its just that from what i've read, this heirloom variety is rather rare, which makes me doubt that this is, in fact, an ernie's round species.


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