Although there was a gap in the blogging, we actually did plant a fall/winter garden, so there was no gap in the gardening action around here. This is the bed to the right.We started out with 1 large variety tomato plant (maybe Big Boy or Better Boy), 2 eggplants, 9 brussel sprouts, a row of boc choy from seed, 2 red pepper plants, a row of scallions from seed, a row or two of Chinese broccoli from seed and peas running up the trellis, also from seed.
What's left?
Well, neither of the eggplants made it which is so weird since in the last garden they were OUT OF CONTROL. The plants got woody stems about 2 inches thick at the base and actually got so big that they bent the heavy duty tomato cages used to hold them up. Now? Nothing, the plants hardly grew at all before just wilting away.
There are only 3 or 4 brussel sprout plants left out of the original 9. A bunch of 'em were dug up early on by some wildlife looking for a good time, we think maybe cats.
Those are our major casualties, everything else is just plugging away.
Here is the raised bed on the left. It was planted with 2 cherry tomato plants, cucumbers, onions, garlic and broccoli.
Everything is still here and growing except the cucumbers, they got white powdery mildew early on and didn't make it. They barely got half way up the trellis before fizzling out. That mildew is just too much to keep on top of! It attacks early and never really goes away, you can just try and control it. One little slip up though and BAM, the plant is covered. Seems like cucumbers are just too much work down here in this zone and I doubt that I'll be planting them again.
Overall, this garden is super exciting for us because we have new things to grow! I love to watch how plants grow and vegetables form, so it's been fun. New to us are the broccoli, Chinese broccoli, boc choy, brussel sprouts, onions and garlic.
