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| The Indian cobra melons are surpassing the much smaller Japanese sakata melons | . |
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| Here are the cobra melons close by, and the sakata melons at the far end of the bed. |
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| Delicate pink soybean flowers |
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| Prolific pinto beans |
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| The nasturtiums have bloomed since I took this picture. Looking forward to pickled buds (a substitute for capers). |
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| The soybean (near) and pinto bean (far) bed |
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| The winter squash is another group of plants that really greened up after the blood meal application. |
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| Cilantro |
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| The big tomato bed! It has 25 heirloom tomatoes (I think!), 3 jalapeños, 12 bell peppers, 3 tomatillos, a long row of basil, a short row of Thai basil, a short row of cilantro. These and the cucumbers all got trellised this evening. In the pot in the middle of the bed is a fig tree just hanging out. We should really get that planted! |
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| Here are the eggplants (Walmart) and little eggplants closer in (my slow-growing seedlings). |
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| Basil |
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| cucumber flowers |
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| Titan sunflower |
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| Our first harvest of beets, three different varieties |
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| The future tilapia pond is returning to duty as a swimming pool until we can save up the money we need to start up the tilapia and get the kids a different pool. They had fun scrubbing out the bottom! |
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| potato bushes |
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| The corn - nearly six feet tall! |
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| cucumbers |
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| I was worried about my still-microscopic eggplant seedlings, so I bought three Japanese eggplants at Walmart for insurance. Couldn't risk not having eggplants, last year's star performer. Meanwhile, my little seedlings are finally coming around. |
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| The miserably failing Bloomsdale spinach. It's a heat-tolerant variety. Maybe it's just not cool-tolerant too! |
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| The bok choy is flowering, but it does not affect the taste. |
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| swiss chard |
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| The purple shiso! I found a recipe for making shiso salt. It's a condiment used like gomashio (a roasted sesame salt) and should be really good on rice and salads. I've added a couple of leaves to a salad and it gives it a great flavor. I can't describe the taste of shiso since it's unlike any other green, but I do love the flavor! |
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| the beet and the carrot bed, some of it ready for harvesting |
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| The mesclun bed. This grew so fast that it went from very tiny to huge just during the two weeks we were away. The kale part of the mesclun (mesclun is a mixture of all kinds of salad greens) is a pretty caterpillar-eaten. I think I'll just pull the kale and give it to the chickens. I've tried, many times, to like kale, but I just can't. |
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| One of the triple crown blackberries that replaced the berry plants we lost when the hooped bed froze. |
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| Either cauliflower or broccoli... I'll have to check my bed map! |
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| the gestalt (north end) |
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| the gestalt (south end) |
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| Our flock, and my favorite thing in the garden! |
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