Wednesday, July 13, 2011

It's-a-growin'

For Jason' mom...who asked for some new pics of the garden.

To really appreciate it...once again. Here is the BEFORE. Nothing but seeds, flowers, and a few teeny tint tomato plants and squash.
And HERE are our highly neglected plants now... Some onions hanging out on the line. Did you know you have to dry them? Yeah. Me neither. But you do if you want them to last longer. We did red onions...but apparently there was a rogue white one there in the middle! (We have so MANY onions. Fortunately they aren't all ready at the same time.)These are all dry and ready to be grubbed on...Group shot! Everyone say "cheese". Yeah. I'm dumb.Here we have our fabulous french cut green beans on our very cheap trellis. This plant has been great in the bay area. Little work...it just grows and grows......and grows. It grows up whatever it can find. Even neighboring, unsuspecting, onion plants. Oops.Another great plant for this area...artichokes! So easy, they grow so well. They like the fog. Golden. Things that are bad...SQUASH! They've pretty much all molded over. They just need more heat. The tomatoes are fruiting but man they are sure taking their sweet time. Again, we need more heat. Maybe we'll get a big crop in Oct!? haha.This here is a Brussel Sprout plant...from the top. We are actually getting baby Brussel Sprouts too. Super cool. This one has been the most work. The weather here is fine for the plant but the PESTS that like this sucker are unbelievable. sheesh. There has been quite the war waging in the backyard the last few weeks. We've lost a few plants for sure but Jason has been putting up a good fight! :)

And THAT is our garden.And THIS is a reject carrot plant. It looked so promising, so full, it crested and looked to be the making of a glorious carrot. Then we pulled it out...to find this. We laughed out loud when we pulled it out. :) Nice.

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