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Garden, 10th Week After Planting

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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 9th Week After Planting

DSC01003 The green on the left is radishes,             And that on the right is cilantro and parsley.

DSC00996 Radishes.  The taller variety grows better. DSC00994 A little Mesclun Mix is in the front.

The lettuce has disappeared again.  I think caterpillars ate it.

After fertilizing, frequent watering, letting in a little more light, and removing the tent-caterpillared mulberry leaves, the garden is doing a little better.

We have a little less than 10 weeks to have the garden get yet darker, and the light again.

Garden After the Seventh Week After Planting

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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