Pictures - Part Two

Corn seedlings on the left, and recently planted flower seeds on the right (various flowers).

Home-made compost on the left, pot of recently planted seeds - mostly zucchini and cukes. (yes, I am lazy when it comes to labeling).





Onions - self-sewn last year. It is an open pollinated species (old australian yellow), so it should be okay.

Pictures - Part Three

South Garden

Onion patch on the left, garlic patch (somewhere in the middle) on the right. This garlic was something I bought from the supermarket. it was labeled as garlic grown in Gilroy so I thought it could do well here (i was too late in ordering garlic to grow from seed companies (in February)). It grew the average 5 - 8 leaves, but the plants are kinda small. I should've given them more room (less plants around it). The leaves are starting to turn yellow, so its probably time to dig them out. I should get other varieties later this summer to plant in october or so.

"Flower" patch on the left, south garden area being used for cover cropping this season on the right.



Mint.

Pictures - Part Four

South garden overview on the left, 4-species cherry tree and corn/melon patch on the right (east garden)

more of the melon (Charantais) and corn (golden bantam) patch



Grapes - Merlot (which I plan to dig up and replace with table grapes) and concord grape.

Pictures - Part Five

The zucchini and cucumber bed (east garden), to the right of the grapes.

Sweet pepper patch and the almond tree at the very end (east garden) on the left, overview of the north garden on the right.



Tomato/pepper patch up close.

Pictures - Part Six

Tomatoes (I am growing a type of cherry tomato and san marzano tomatoes), and strawberries (everbearing - Sequoia and another one that starts with a "Q" - the name eludes me...)

Zinnia, marigolds and alyssums border the tomato/pepper patch in the north garden.


Beautiful calendula flowers - self-sown.

Pictures - Part Seven

Lavender and Calendula flowers (north garden). Beautiful combo.

Apples (Early Summer) growing on a 4-species apple tree, and a European plum (I've been waiting for fruit on this tree for 2 years!). Update: I actually found that I have two (!) plums growin on that tree...I can't wait to see how it tastes!




Overview of the apple (far left), dwarf nectarine (nectazee, middle), and european plum (right) in the north garden. (cherry tree, far right - technically in the east garden).

tada..

forgive the pulled out woody herbs to the right...

more images to come as time allows.



(feel free to click on the image above to view a larger version).

Note: I grow my veggies/trees/flowers/plants on the outer edges. Since we have a child, we would like to keep our lawn space for play space for now. But I do have an eye on that space as raised bed areas....