Old Garden Pictures

Here is a link to my garden pictures from 2005 to 2008:
http://www.pbase.com/ercarlso/garden

Ripe Fruits

Harvest has been a bit late this year. First batch of melons came during the end of July, and continued for a month. Second batch seems to be coming.






Have had cherry tomatoes for several weeks, but this is the first big batch of normal tomatoes. Cooked these down into sauce.

Interesting Harvest

Picked this funny radish for salad today. I saw the top of the radish poking out of the dirt, but when I pulled it up, two more radishes were chained along with it! All of them tasted very good.

New Growth

Two weeks ago (June 27), I pulled up the snow peas and directly sowed these "Blue Lake" green beans from Bountiful Gardens. They are already looking pretty vigorous!

Also harvested some radish (not shown). Also started harvesting nectarines this week (July 10).

Transplanted 4 "Purple Passion" Asparagus seedlings purchased from Yamagami's today (July 11). They are USDA Organic, grown at Sweetwater Nursery in Sebastopol, CA. Supposed to be "more tender" than green types of asparagus.




Earth (Box) Day: July 11.

Decided to give my new EarthBox a try. It was a gift from Horace. The left picture is after filling with dirt. The right picture is after everything was planted. Here are "Mixed Greens Lettuce" seedlings I purchased from Yamagami's today. Also some "Rocket Arugula" I grew from Burpee seed.

Some Progress

Plants have not been growing very well this summer, although there is some progress. Right now, I think the issue is not very deep soil in the main bed, and also a failure to rotate crops from the previous years. This zucchini plant has only yielded one so far. This is highly unusual for zucchini.



This flowering squash on the lower left should be vining out across the rocks by now, but seems content to stay small. The Radish on the lower right looks just fine, but it is in a newer bed that does not seem to lack nutrients (or depth).













Tomato plant on the left is a hybrid I grew from Burpee seed, and put into the planter box on the North side of the house. Seems to be growing well despite a late start. The Cherry Tomato (below) is a weak looking plant, but still gave some fruit, yay!










Again, we have some nice looking melons (two kinds shown here) coming from the newer planter box with newer dirt. These seem to be doing fine.













Cute little corn growing in the main bed looks good, but is a bit stunted. It isn't any taller than me.

These pictures were taken around July 1, 2009.

Early Harvest

Picked a second batch of snow peas for dinner tonight. These are Oregon Sugar Pod II Snow Peas from Bountiful Gardens Seeds in Willits, CA.

Late Spring

State of the garden by end of May, 2009 is good.


Melon plants seem to be thriving. These include Crenshaw, Honeydew and Cantaloupe.

Watermelon plant isn't keeping up. In the past, I grew it with the other melons, but it got crowded out. Now I grow it in a separate planter. It's a late-bloomer, but usually reliable to produce something by September.


Zucchini plant has a flower, but no squash yet!



Tomato plants also have flowers, but are still small plants. Not using the cage supports much yet.

New artichoke plant is growing in it's own little planter box too. Still small, but this one is already looking better than the one I attempted to grow last year.


Last but not least, I harvested a bok choi for stir fry dinners all last week.