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Garden, 14th Week

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, 10th Week After Planting

Garden, End of 10th week after planting DSC01021 View of garden, some things grow better

Best radish so far DSC01029  Best radish with slightly swollen stemBest parsley DSC01035 Best parsley showing speeded up growth

Best lettuce DSC01040 New lettuce seedlings.  All others disappeared

. Best dill plant DSC01030 Best cilatro DSC01036 Best cilantro, growing better

Some plants are starting to take off!  As you see the garden is shaded by the houses a lot, because we are getting close to the winter solstice.  Nine more weeks from now there will be more light than we have right now.  The light will begin increasing in 4 1/2 weeks at the winter solstice, and it is our experience that in general things in the yard slowly begin to grow at that time such as clover and grass.  Maybe parts of the garden will grow better again.

It seems that caterpillar season is over.  I did not see any crawling today, although the temperature on the font porch was over 70 degrees.  The beets and carrots have been eaten off to the ground.   There are some new leaves of lettuce coming up.  It has been apparently eaten off several times, but a few new seedlings are popping up, yet again.  Time will tell.

For sure we will have a few herbs to harvest as needed for our kitchen in a few weeks!

Garden After the Seventh Week After Planting

DSC00772 Thankfully, it rained today!

DSC00773 I will watch what the extra post-rain water does.

DSC00782 Radishes 7th week after planting.DSC00783 The lettuce is doing a little better.

DSC00784Mesclun mix may produce results.

DSC00788 A poor injured anole after the rain.

I think minor factors in the growth of my garden were moisture and fertilizer levels.  Now I think that the most major factor may be sunlight, and sunlight timing.  Time will tell