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Anything from any garden.

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, March 4, 2014

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Garden March 4, 2014 DSC01823  It has been cold, in the 30s and 40s, overcast, and rather windy for several days now.  It does not bother the lettuce, cabbage, garlic, onions, carrots, or dill.

Tomatoes are on the top (got chilled) DSC01825It really chilled the tomatoes (top of planter) which  I was sprouting outdoors.   They had been very regular.    We’ll see if they survive.

The new radishes which I planted are not doing as well as I expected in the garden, although they are doing well in this planter (bottom rows).  Right now I think that they have been too wet, which may cause them to be susceptible to some fungus.  The older radishes, planted last fall, are not developed, and have clear fungus on their roots.  They had been more developed earlier in the winter.

I Could Not Figure Out What This Was

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DSC01811 These one inch wide nodules were present on some of what I thought were queen palm roots, which I encountered while I was digging  up some of the southwest garden.   I have been unable to find anything online to explain what they are.  Are they bacteria harboring nodules to fix nitrogen?  Sooner or later I will find out what they are.

Here are the queen palms, photographed in December 2013.

These are the three queen palms of the southwest bed taken in December 2013 DSC01210

As you see, I dug around the queen palm bases in order to be able to plant the vegetables and flowers that I most recently planted, and in doing so, I disturbed the roots to some extent.  this is how I found those roots with nodules.

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