Overview of garden 14th week, a day before the winter solstice. 
Green 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. 
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. 
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. 
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.
Tag Archives: Radishes
Garden, 13th Week
Eight days to go until winter solstice!
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.
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.
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.
Garden, 11th Week
Overview of garden, NOV 29, 2013
Radishes are growing!
Our plantain cluster on NOV 29, 2013.
Plantain trees on NOV 29, 2013.
Even though these plantains are beginning to turn brown, our one plantain cluster is still growing. We are going to get a small radish yield. We’ll see what happens with our winter weather. Will it freeze?