Making Pots

I got a fancy seedling pot maker. All you need is newpaper, and I have tons of that, and the scraps that are left over from making pots can be composted! No more buying seed starter trays.

Potmaker

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Voila!

Beans Everywhere

My pole beans came in about two months late, but man, they are not messing around. I can harvest handfuls of them daily. I'm sure I'll be sick of them soon, but in the meantime, I am amused as shit every time I go searching for beans. I usually find some grasshoppers and a praying mantis or two as well.

October 8, 2011

October 8, 2011 - Basil, tomatoes, peppers, chard

October 8, 2011 - BEANS

October 8, 2011 - Cantaloupe

October 8, 2011 - Honeydew

October 8, 2011 - Habaneros, the plant is loaded down with them

Composting!

I've been wanting to start composting for a while, and even saved up $100 to buy a really cool barrel composter with a compost tea attachment. When I went to buy it, it was sold out! And has been for a year now. So I put off the project.

Then one day my new, and incredibly amazing boyfriend, said to me "I'm going to make you a composter." Could I get any luckier? I get to compost and I don't have to do any work? Yes, please. Less than 2 weeks later, voila, composter in my yard. A pretty fancy one at that. He also made me two buckets with spigots for compost tea. What a man.

October 8, 2011 - My fancy composter!

Melons!

I picked a cantaloupe a bit too soon. Then I got bored and took silly pictures with it. It wasn't very sweet but I ate it anyway.

September 20, 2011

September 20, 2011 - I have too much free time

Fall Garden

My fall garden in So Cal is just as productive as my summer garden. When it's 100+ degrees in fall, the plants don't realize they're supposed to be waning away from the cold. Also, mystery solved, I have a volunteer sorghum plant in my yard. Trying to research some cool stuff to do with it.

September 5, 2011

September 5, 2011 - Tomatoes, basil, peppers and swiss chard

September 5, 2011 - Melons

September 5, 2011 - Sunflowers

September 5, 2011 - Cantaloupe

September 5, 2011 - Honeydew

September 5, 2011 - Cucumber

September 5, 2011 - Peanuts

September 5, 2011 - Peanut stalks growing into the ground

September 5, 2011 - Habanero

September 5, 2011 - Bell pepper

September 5, 2011 - Roma tomatoes

September 5, 2011 - Sorghum!!!

September 5, 2011 - Sorghum up close

Late Summer

The garden is full of activity in late summer. Lots of things going to seed, and lots of things to eat.

August 22, 2011 - Lettuce going to seed

August 22, 2011 - Sunflower ready to be cut

August 22, 2011 - Sunflower seeds, yum

August 22, 2011 - Cantaloupe

August 22, 2011 - Honeydew

August 22, 2011 - My melons

August 22, 2011 - The bean plants are taking over, but still no sign of beans...

August 22, 2011 - Cucumber

August 22, 2011 - Roma tomatoes

August 22, 2011 - Bell peppers

August 22, 2011 - Can anyone tell me what this is? It sprang up in the yard