I have fresh home grown garlic! ️🧄❤️🧄❤️
Category: Vegetables
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
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.
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!
Really excited for these eggplant!
Really excited for these eggplant that are coming along nicely in the garden
Fresh beans from the garden!
Fresh beans from the garden! I harvested them mostly so the plants will make more…
This weekend I built a new trellis for the tomatoes!
Constructed from 4 2x4s and a piece of ladder mesh truss, this is arguably the only structure on the entire property that is actually plumb and level.
The back row has 10 plants and the front row has six, all different indeterminate varieties. I am pruning them as a single vine up a string. Each one has its own string and hook so that when the plant reaches the top I could let out some string and let them keep growing!
Thanks to @nextlevelgardening for the strings and hooks and great videos explaining how! This is my first time growing tomatoes this way and I’m excited about how big they might get.
Beans are happening in the garden!
The flowers are gorgeous and I tasted a couple of the greenbean pods which are immature but tasty!
Stir fried cauliflower and beet greens from the garden
I stir fried all of the leaves from the cauliflower plant I harvested yesterday and from the beet plants I harvested today, along with the smaller beets, and served it to myself with some tofu and rice and it is delicious! So excited that my garden has reached a point work I’m actually eating it!
The first strawberry from the garden tasted wonderful.
And there are so many more where that came from that would be ripening soon!
Garden is doing well!
tomatoes beginning to bloom, our first ripe strawberry, corn starting to make pollen, and our greenhouse full of spares. We’ve also got lots more veggies coming in soon
Back yard garden is coming along!
Lots of veggies growing in their bags and more coming soon! gardening is very satisfying! Plus engineering fences out of bamboo and netting to keep the 4 legged neighbors away is a fun challenge
