Thursday, April 23, 2015

Container Gardening Together - Week 9




These are my beets, looking about atrocious.  :)  Wonder how they'll turn out. 

Both Eggplant Plants

Black Eyed Peas.  One is Still really Giant for some reason. 

Blue Lake Beans.

Cabbages


Cayenne Pepper (Left) and Jalapeno Pepper (right)

My celery Is finally coming Up



My collards are filling back in after the thinning out.


My Cucumbers are looking good.  I may need to stake them soon. 

My eggplants are doing lovely. Not much change.

 Fennel is coming up nicely.

My Goji still hasn't produced anything. 

My grapevine has a blossom.  I suppose I better figure out where I want to put it permanently. 

Here you can see I have some corsican mint!  It's nice!   You can also so my oregano and rosemary in the top tier.  Followed by my garlic chives in the next tier.  and you can see my cilantro in the bottom left and my basil in the bottom right. 


You can see the Corsican Mint, rosemary and Oregano from this shot as well. You can Also see The cilantro and the garlic Chives, but from this shot you can see my creeping thyme from the left. 

In this final weeks shot of the herb tower you can see the top tier with the Corsican mint, oregano and rosemary, followed by he second tier of cilantro. and you can see the basil on the bottom left and the lovely sage on the bottom right. 

Kidney Beans


Lemon Balm. Don't mind the recycling. Funny Story.  My pug hates this stuff.  I think finds it disturbing that it smells like fruits (lemon) and it looks like green.

This is butter crunch lettuce.  I thinned it out last week and had the most delicious salad.  Once I thinned it out some, it stated growing it quite well.  I'm very pleased with it. 

My Lima Beans Actually accumulated too much water and I had to re-pot them.  I When I did the beans I put water in.  That's a good idea if you live in a drought torn place like California.  But if you don't then you need to leave nothing in the bottle and leave it as a reservoir in case of too much water.  Which is what I did with the peas and tomatoes.  Lesson Learned!  :)

Lincoln Green Peas

Yellow Squash

Pinto Beans


My radishes are looking particularly poor right now.  The neighborhood has a large dog that likes to go trampling through them! #seriouslyannoyed

My raspberries are nothing spectacular either
 roma tomatoes

tomatoes

more tomatoes

Sage and Lavender

Snow Peas

Spinach - Still Underwhelming.

Strawberries. Not doing a thing!

This is a new addition this week!  Muskmelon!  But you might know it as Cantaloupe!

Tomatoes  - again.

Thankfully, my family likes tomatoes.

ON A FINAL NOTE!
I just wanted to take a second and show you guys how i do the totes.  You can't just throw dirt in a tote and expect it to work.  It will collect water and fill up and get gross in a hurry.  I just drilled holes in the bottom of mine and then put landscaping fabric in the bottom so it will lose water, but not soil. 

 that way these yellow squash don't get water logged.

or these yellow squash.

or this zucchini squash!


Happy Prepping!

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Container Gardening Together - Week 8


My rosemavy and oregano.  Unfortunately, my spearmint never came up.  I can never grow mint from seed.  I suck at that I guess.  Most herbs really. I'll probably have to buy some.  


Cilantro, I guess is an Exception.  I grew this from seed. 


This is garlic Chives.  I grew this from seed as well. 


This is my creeping thyme.


Parsley, from seed.


Sage.


Basil.  You can see I harvested some. 


rosemary, oregano, thyme, 

This is my yellow squash


You can barely see the berries on my goji and raspberry bushes.  They are so green 



My Kidney Beans

  Blue Lake Beans

Lima Beans

Pinto Beans

My radishes

they are very nearly ready to harvest!  I'll get several harvests of radish!




Lincoln Green Peas


Snow Peas

Cabbages

Beets

 Cayenne red Pepper


 Bell Peppers

Strawberry Patch

Eggplant

Marion Tomato

rutgers Tomato

 Marion Tomato

Black Eyed Peas

Straight 8 Cucumber

Straight 8 Cucumber

Marketmore Cucumber

Marketmore / Ashley Cucumber

Ashley / Straight 8 Cucumber

 Ashley Cucumber

Straight 8 Cucumber

The Spanish Onion (in the back) never came up and are just done for. I'm going to have to re-plant. The tomato in the front is doing well though. 

roma tomato

buttercrunch lettuce. i thinned it out last weekend.  it seemed to do it some real good. 

 Georgia collards.  I also thinned these.  this seemed to do them a great deal of good as well.  

spinach. I'm not sure why, but it doesn't seem to be doing so good.  Maybe it's not going to do as well until later in the season. I guess we'll see.