Veggies in raised beds are coming along well!
Planted my asparagus bare root plants!
I dug up this patch of ground and amended the clayey native soil with sand, pumice, wood chips, potting mix, and fertilizer, and finally added some baby basil plants for companions… So glad to own my own home so I’m able to place long term perennial plants in the ground at last!!! I also found this adorable little salamander in the bag of used potting soil that I poured into the hole
I’m a bit behind this year.
It’s July and I only just put in the summer veggies…. But most of them will still keep going until almost Christmas in our climate so it’s not too late!
Plant babies coming along!
Earlier this spring we lost a lot of seedlings to fungus gnats and it was really demoralizing. Not a great gardening year for us. But doing what I can to get things going again….
Fava bean harvest
Finally got fed up with the fava beans shading out the tomatoes and took them out.
Lots of work but very tasty!
Last tomato harvest of the 2022 growing season?
I picked all of the tomatoes left on the vines, no matter how green. Plenty of them were split and rotting because of all the rain we’re getting. The ones that were reasonably ripe I cooked into a soup with ramen, and the few green basil leaves I had left, and some onion. These greentomatoes are all that’s left; should I fry them or try to ripen them? I also saved some cuttings from the tomatoes and basil plants which I’m going to try to propagate to get a head start on the 2023 garden
Grow your own English thyme.
It’s not hard to do… Season just about everything you cook with fresh thyme and it’ll be better!
The little caterpillars ate every single leaf!
I had to relocate them to a neighbor’s front yard so they wouldn’t starve to death. Looking forward to having a few more monarch butterflies around even if they’re not in my yard.
Monarchpocalypse in our milkweed !
So many little monarch caterpillar babies eating so much! May need to take them to a neighbor’s so they can all eat enough!
The sky is leaking! First rain in months!
First rain we’ve had in many months here in california … The tomatoes in my garden have never experienced this exotic form of watering!
Delicious tomatoes ready to pick in the garden
Thanks @nextlevelgardening for the hook and string method!
Summer harvest: tomatoes, basil, beans, and more
Harvested a bunch of tomatoes, basil, beans, and other delights from the garden.
Our garden has been attracting beautiful butterflies!
monarch, gulf fritillary , and anise swallowtail are daily visitors. The swallowtail likes to hang out in our greenhouse and everybody loves the zinnias
The deer ate both of my sunflower heads!
Swipe to see what it looked like before. I had just sprayed deer repellent the night before, so I think I need to look at other ways of keeping them off my plants…..
Baby tomatoes coming along nicely!
I pruned back the tomato plants so that the bottom leaves wont die from powdery mildew and now you can really see how many baby tomatoes we have coming along!
Very excited to harvest them from the garden soon! We’ve already eaten about a half dozen tomatoes that came right so far.
Three eggplant varieties thriving in containers
Three varieties of eggplant growing well in my container patio garden.
Experts say it’s impossible (too cold and windy) to grow them in the San Francisco Bay Area but I beg to differ!
Picked the first cucumber from the garden that I have ever grown!
And about to pick the second tromboncino squash. The cucumbers about 8 in long and the squash is almost 2 ft long. Yum!