Juna and I got a lot done today. We harvested 10 lbs of potatoes--Yukon gold, fingerling, mmm good. I will have potatoes baked with fresh rosemary, sage, salt, pepper and olive oil. Can't wait.
We pulled down t he walls for the potatoes. One area in the raised bed is still standing. I will leave it. Added soil to the strawberries on the hillside. Harvested green onions, chives, kale, Batabian endive, arugula and Royal Oak leaf lettuce.
The soil is ordered. Just getting ready.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Lots to do tomorrow. I have just ordered 7 cubic yards of soil to be delivered next week. Have to harvest what I can, move the tomato support, decide what I can replant, think about the soaker hoses.
Then, I should start some of the plants in the small containers on the heating pad in the south corner of the house. It's time!
Then, I should start some of the plants in the small containers on the heating pad in the south corner of the house. It's time!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Time to start getting ready for the summer garden.
Tuesday: Order soil for garden. Order more rather than less. It costs $200 to send to me. I'm thinking 10 cubic yards. That's a lot, but I'll end up using it throughout the year. Must buy 100 or 50 gallon barrels to store some of the extra, unless I want a pile of dirt in my back yard.
Order 1/2 and 1/2.
Start tomatoes and bell peppers in small containers. Zucchini and the other vine vegetables and fruits. Better check the seed packets and find out how soon they can be transferred to the garden.
Tuesday: Order soil for garden. Order more rather than less. It costs $200 to send to me. I'm thinking 10 cubic yards. That's a lot, but I'll end up using it throughout the year. Must buy 100 or 50 gallon barrels to store some of the extra, unless I want a pile of dirt in my back yard.
Order 1/2 and 1/2.
Start tomatoes and bell peppers in small containers. Zucchini and the other vine vegetables and fruits. Better check the seed packets and find out how soon they can be transferred to the garden.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Back home!
I was out of town for 3 weeks so not too much was going on in the garden. Juna helped care for the garden in my absence--watering, weeding, adding soil, harvesting.
Had a good day today. Rodney fed all the fruit trees in front with Fish Emulsion and iron. Then he pruned one of the overgrown lavender plants. Still need to prune the other lavender and two rosemary plants. He also pulled out two bougainvillea plants on the hillside. I am going to use that area for fruit trees. I will probably transplant the plum and lemon trees on the south side of the house.
Two new gardeners today--Dasha and Rubie. They helped Juna clean up the whole hillside of pine needles, pine cones, roots, etc. Then we worked on the main two gardens. I pulled up all the stakes and thread marking the rows. Pulled out all the radishes and broccoli that never quite matured. Harvested spinach, Batavian endive, Royal Oak leaf lettuce, peas, green onions, kale, mint and rosemary.
It was a warm and wonderful day! Will start planting the seeds for the garden in the next few days.
Had a good day today. Rodney fed all the fruit trees in front with Fish Emulsion and iron. Then he pruned one of the overgrown lavender plants. Still need to prune the other lavender and two rosemary plants. He also pulled out two bougainvillea plants on the hillside. I am going to use that area for fruit trees. I will probably transplant the plum and lemon trees on the south side of the house.
Two new gardeners today--Dasha and Rubie. They helped Juna clean up the whole hillside of pine needles, pine cones, roots, etc. Then we worked on the main two gardens. I pulled up all the stakes and thread marking the rows. Pulled out all the radishes and broccoli that never quite matured. Harvested spinach, Batavian endive, Royal Oak leaf lettuce, peas, green onions, kale, mint and rosemary.
It was a warm and wonderful day! Will start planting the seeds for the garden in the next few days.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Saturday. Wasn't planning on working in the garden, but Rodney came over to work, so we worked. Used up the last 4 bags of topsoil, covering the potatoes and adding soil to the wisteria and raspberry. boy, those bags of soil go fast. Looking forward to ordering those 4 - 6 cubic yards of soil in April. I bet they get used up a lot faster than I'm imagining. And that's A LOT OF SOIL!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Worked in the garden today, but there wasn't too much to do. It was a beautiful day, sunny and close to 80 degrees. Gotta love that Southern California weather. Rodney poured a 2 sq ft bag of topsoil on the potatoes. I will have to buy 6 - 10 more bags tomorrow. Probably 10. Have to cover those potatoes. Spread one bag of topsoil among the four wisteria plants. I think I am going to have quite a few blossoms this year.
It's supposed to rain Sunday night or Monday. Haven't turned the automatic sprinklers back on yet.
It's supposed to rain Sunday night or Monday. Haven't turned the automatic sprinklers back on yet.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
It wasn't sunny today, but it was a great day for gardening. I started out by adding soil around a potato plant whose potatoes were appearing on the vines above the earth. Then I cut out a large portion of mint that has been crawling from its corner in the raised bed, in an attempt to take over that part of the garden. Mint is wonderful, but very much like a weed in that it's insidious, and creeps all over with its vines and roots. I want to keep it in the corner.
Juna came today and so did two new gardeners I met through Home Grown Culver City: Barbara and Romaine. How appropriate for Romaine to be gardening.
We turned the soil in all the gardens and around the trees where the vetch was pulled up and dug in from last week. Then we watered all the areas well. I dug up the earth around the strawberries on the hill. The ground is still very clay like. It's supposed to rain tonight. That will be good for helping the vetch to further decompose.
We added soil around the three areas containing potatoes, and added another bag to the area I had already worked on. We are going to have a heck of a lot of potatoes this year.
Juna came today and so did two new gardeners I met through Home Grown Culver City: Barbara and Romaine. How appropriate for Romaine to be gardening.
We turned the soil in all the gardens and around the trees where the vetch was pulled up and dug in from last week. Then we watered all the areas well. I dug up the earth around the strawberries on the hill. The ground is still very clay like. It's supposed to rain tonight. That will be good for helping the vetch to further decompose.
We added soil around the three areas containing potatoes, and added another bag to the area I had already worked on. We are going to have a heck of a lot of potatoes this year.
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