I went to get a citrus and ended up with one of these. Quite excited. The chill hours are definitely higher than what San Diego is capable of providing for some of the grafts. I have two types of Asian pear and one Bartlett pear. Hope these work out! The housui Asian pear is already…
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Volunteer compost squash.
As I suspected these are very very likely spaghetti squash volunteers. Here’s the plumpest squash baby so far! I hope to get a dozen to last me through the season!
Veggies in every space possible! Celery and kale May 2018
So I have an original planter which is now shaded by a giant banana tree which hasn’t been doing too much. I am trying some green veggies that maybe could survive without full sun and could be harvested as needed. Let’s see how these goes. I have a Japanese pepper in there left over from…
Three sisters May 2018
I found some old corn seeds so I had enough for a very small patch and after they started growing strong I decided to expand the corn patch. Hopefully it will mean I will get 2 good staggered harvest of corn. The peas I also found laying around! Hey why not! And before I knew…
Broccolini nom nom
This is the third harvest of broccolini from this season. I have previously grown broccolini in a container before but this is much more successful in a bed. The sprouts are so tender and fresh, I think next year I will grow more so I can grow enough to share with the family too 🙂…
Citrus, Meyer lemon, Washington orange, pomelo, and the Pink lemonade still alive!
I have had the pink lemonade tree for a long time and haven’t had too many lemons from it. I would love to put it in the ground but still figuring out a space! Other citrus are doing mighty fine!! New from last year are Washington oranges, which produced about a dozen tasty oranges last…
Vegetable planter :) wow!
Feb 14th 2017 April 1st above! Still so neat! I just added the trellis for the tomatoes since I don’t have a cage. And this below is April 19th. Only 18 days from when I put the trellis in and now you can barely see it! Growth is insane! The squash is turning into a…
Winci's urban food garden experiment! 