The Garden Produceth

The garden is starting to burst. Our basil harvest was massive! Almost more than we could handle, fortunately Wendy was here to help us.

 

 

 

Wendy Watering

We are getting lots of tomatoes, our beets are almost finished, carrots are starting to come on, eggplants and peppers are just starting.

The pepper plants are packed like the post office before christmas:

Although most of my pepper plants are going for quantity, I have one plant that is putting everything it has into one giant pepper.

Going for Biggest Pepper in the Garden prize

Goddess of the Harvest

The garden groweth

The garden is showing signs of life, most of our seeds have sprouted and our transplants are taking root. The weeds are a constant battle but that is not surprising.

We ate the Pak Choi already and the radishes are next. Chard is starting to look ready as well.

Lori weeding

I will be mulching soon, need to find a bale of straw somewhere.

And being a part of a community garden is fun, nice people and surrounded by vibrant life!

Spring has Sprung!

Well Spring is definitely here, in fact it feels like it has been here all winter. I have been living the dream in California for almost 5 years now and I cannot get over how great the winters are. Its like spring for 5 months of the year. But there are some subtle changes and the leaves are coming out, more flowers are blooming, bees are doing their thing.


And, after waiting for almost 2 years, I have a plot at the local community garden! It is exactly 1.5 blocks from where I live and so I am totally stoked. It is not much to look at just yet. Here is a before picture, actually this is after a couple hours of work but I forgot to bring my camera.

Ready for planting

It is about 20' by 20', you can grow a decent amount of veggies in that space. When I have a garden I tend to focus on things that I cant afford at the store. This year, as with other years will be dedicated to peppers. I love them! As it is March it is getting a bit late for some of the cool weather crops, I will try out some carrots and beets as well as some chard and pak choi that I started in flats. Fortunately, I was told I would be getting the plot about a month ago, so I had time to start transplants.

In my garage, maybe the neighbors think I am growing pot

So the center flat is almost all peppers, I think I have 13 different varieties, from small to large, mostly sweet but a couple of hot thai peppers that sounded interesting. Also in the same flat are eggplants (3 kinds). I don't even like eggplants but they are fun to grow. To the right are the tomatoes, 4 kinds, 2 beef and 2 saladette. I started these later because they dont require as much time to grow before transplanting. In the left tray is a hodgpodge of things. I used a bunch of old seed and apparently none of the lettuce germinated, or the spinach... So I have a lot of chard and pak choi, with some random flowers thrown in for fun.