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Garden, March 29, 2014

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DSC02147 Garden from the south side.

DSC02159 Garden from the north side.

Some things have glowered, bolted, started going to seed.  The two cabbages that had been going to head, are flowering.  The head never got very big.

DSC02148 The cabbage flower clusters almost look like brussels sprouts.

DSC02151 Our beautiful yellow broccoli flowers (back), and white flowering greens(front).  The red cabbage (middle) is beginning to form heads.  We’ll see how that goes!  Dr. Johnson said in his Galveston Daily News column that the cold snap which we had in the late winter can make broccoli flower.  (I  image that can go for some other things, too, like the cabbage. )  Not shown here are cilantro and tall lettuce which are also in the process of going to seed.

Garden, 14th Week

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DSC01190Overview of garden 14th week,  a day before the winter solstice. DSC01191Green cabbages are growing better on the shadier south end of the garden.  The green cabbage at the far end of the garden is doing the best of all.  The garlic has gotten a lot bigger over the last week.  We had a small harvest of parsley to bake on our fish. DSC01192 Mesclun mix is growing  in the foreground.  We are supposed to have five varieties of salad greens in it.  I’ve seen at least two or three kinds. DSC01193 From front to back, lettuce, a very few carrots, perhaps a couple of beets, which were badly eaten by something, and  a couple of dill plants which will survive if it does not freeze. DSC01194 The larger growing radishes did the best.  one or two are probably overgrown, but we are keeping them until Christmas.  Some  may grow when the light changes.  We’ll see what happens to the others.  The garlic planted on this end of the garden is doing very well.  We may expect that, because with the clove, they may not be light dependent, yet, and must not need certain light conditions to be a switch. The whole onion I planted did not grow,  even though it does not need the energy.  Either the onion got damaged in transit to our house, or it needs certain light conditions.  The onion and chive seeds kept popping up and disappearing, even though October was an OK time for planting.  

Garden, 13th Week

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DSC01132 Eight days to go until winter solstice!

DSC01136 There are at least four radishes in here, ready to harvest.  Not very much, considering that I planted two packets of seeds for at  least a dollar each.  There are quite a few less developed radishes that may grow better when the days begin to lengthen.

DSC01133 Young red cabbage plants are doing a little better than they were, but still not visible from a distance.  There is a little mesclun mix in there.  Some newer seedlings are emerging again, now including a red lettuce, which did not come up before.  We’ll see what time does.

DSC01135 Dill does not like it too wet, because the dryer dill a little elevated from the near trench at the edge of the garden, where moisture and rain accumulate, is doing better, now.  But in the heat and dryness of the early fall, the dill was sprouting much better next to the garden’s edge where the higher level of moisture was a definite plus under these dryer conditions.

Next week will be just before the winter solstice, and in two weeks, we will be just after the winter solstice.