Winter Garden Planting

Last week (11/5/10) I planted 4 items in our second raised bed.  They were  "Red Creole P.R.R. Onions, Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage, Squirrel's Choice Olympia Hybrid Spinach, and Swiss Chard.  I was a little late doing this so I don't know what kind of yield I will get.  We'll wait and see.

Crimson Clover cover crop

I planted some Crimson Clover cover crop seeds in one of my raised beds a few days ago.  It is coming up quite nicely.  I will leave this bed unplanted through the winter in an attempt to replenish the nitrogen. 

Tomatoes- biggest is 10.8 oz

We are still getting tomatoes from our "Big Boy" plant.  These are the biggest we have gotten yet.  The plant should probably last another 2 or 3 weeks.  By that time, I will be sick of tomatos.

It's BLT Time

Picked our first good tomatoes this morning.  Biggest was 7.8 oz.  Plenty big enough for BLT's.

Zucchini Bread

Fresh out of the oven - Yum. Yum

Harvest Bounty

Early morning harvest today. However, we are still waiting for
tomatoes. We do get lots of cherry tomatoes.

Stuffed Zucchini

Leona made stuffed zucchini for dinner last night. Both the zucchini
and home grown cherry tomatoes were used. It's great to grow your own
food.

Zucchini Bread

Made 4 loaves this morning. This is how I like to eat my veggies.

More Cherry Tomatoes

We picked more cherry tomatoes this morning.  Leona is buying the ingredients to make salsa.  We won't be able to eat them all otherwise.

Cherry Tomatoes

We are starting to harvest our tomatoes.  The cherry tomato plant has hundreds of tomatoes.  We picked just these few yesterday and will be getting more every day.  Leona is getting ready to make Salsa.  We can't possibly eat all of them.

Harvesting

Leona picked a few things yesterday.  We are getting lots of yellow squash, zucchini , and some peaches, and a few strawberries.  We have made about 15 loaves of zucchini  bread for the freezer, have had steamed zucchini , and stuffed zucchini .  Basically, we have had zucchini coming out of our ears.  Now, we are waiting for tomatoes.  Our cherry tomato plant is loaded but nothing ripe yet. 

Hot Weather

Parts of my garden are doing much better now that the weather is warming up.  My tomato plants, zucchini, and squash are starting to look pretty good.  We are getting lots of zucchini.

SF Ferry Bldg Farmers Market

Leona and I went to the Farmers Market at the Ferry Bldg in San Francisco this past Saturday.  We like to look at all the nice vegetables, various foods to eat, and best of all, people watch.  Here are a couple of pictures of how I wish my vegetables looked after picking.  Unfortunately, mine look more like the previous post.

Blossom End Rot

I seem to have some blossom end rot on my yellow squash.  This picture shows one that looks pretty good and one that does not.  I am assuming this is a "Blossom End Rot" condition.  I know this problem can exist with tomatoes but I didn't know it also occurred on squash.  Please let me know if anyone knows what else could be causing this condition.

For quite some time, Leona has been looking for an economical purchase of a new backyard patio set.  Finally, she found one at Home Depot for only a couple of hundred dollars.  (Some of these sets run over $2000).  This is not necessarily a top of the line set, but it serves our needs quite well.

Status

Tomatoes and Zuchinni aren't looking too bad so far.  Starting to get lots of blooms on the tomatoes and plan to be eating yellow squash in a few days.

Green Bean Planting

I planted 2 rows of green beans this weekend.  They were Squirrel's Choice Blue Lake Bush Beans.  In 50 - 65 days, we plan on eating fresh green beans.  That's a few pole beans on this end of the picture.

Bark for Berm

This past week I hauled 2.5 yds of Medium Bark to spread over our backyard berm.  After getting the first load, I realized I should have gotten Small Bark.  The Medium actually looks like Large.  Oh, well, it will break down over time.  That's one good thing about working in the yard.  Time will eventually fix all mistakes.

Garden planting 5/30/10

Once again, we planted one row of three vegetables - Squirrel's Choice Chantenay Red Cored carrots, Champion radishes, and Detroit Dark Red Table beets.  We had previously planted an identical row of these same vegetables.  We hope to extend the harvest by planting at different times.

Firepot

While on our recent vacation in Texas, we had dinner with my nephew and after dinner we sat on the back porch and enjoyed watching the flames from their firepot.  It creates quite the ambiance when added to good conversation and a glass of vino.

We just had to have one.  We found this one at K-Mart.