Garden Tour 12-31-08

December 28 Tomatoes

We are enjoying our roma tomatoes, freshly picked in late December. They are very delicious. I keep them on the patio at night with a light on them and put them in the sunshine during the day if it's not too cold.

They have much more flavor than sweat-shop tomatoes.

The plants continue to have flowers even now so we are hopeful to have even more this winter.

First Frost Dec 27 2008

We had our first heavy freeze last night. All our buckets of water had a thick layer of ice on them. Here are my wild onions all covered with ice.

I covered the peas with a sheet and the garden with straw. They all looked fine this morning. The broccoli loves the ice so I left it uncovered.

Garden Dec 19 2008

The garden is coming along nicely. I put the shovel in the picture to show scale but then put my finger in the picture too!

The tallest peas (on the left, against the wall) were planted several weeks before the peas on the right. This should extend the harvest nicely.

The rows to the right were also planted later than the ones on the left, but the third row from the left are onions which are doing nicely. I will probably let them all grow for bulb onions rather than greens.

Peas Flowering

Baby Broccoli

My broccoli is beginning to produce!

Dew on Wheat Grass

Nature is a revelation of God;

Art a revelation of man.

-- Longfellow

December Sky from My Yard

December 1, 2008

The crescent moon along with Venus and Jupiter. I took this photo from my yard.

That's Venus on the left and Jupiter on the right.

Jupiter is 540 million miles away from Earth.

Venus is 94 million miles away.

The next time we will see this trio will be in the year 2052.

Rain

Our first rain in 3 months!

After the Rain

Arizona Thanksgiving

Even on Thanksgiving Day, it's still Spring in Arizona.

Cat Grass

Red Winter Wheat planted a week ago so the cats will have good healthy greens to eat through the winter. We have grown this before and can actually get a crop of wheat out of it. The threshing is the hardest part.

(note the two sweet potatoes growing in the left side of the patch)

Field Greens

This is the "field greens" portion of the garden. The chard is very excited about the rain! You can see the spinach in the center of the pic. There is also romaine and beet greens.

Trust

Cat in Hat

Comet in Green Bathroom

Which Box is Best?

Garden at One Month Old

Here is the garden at 30 days old. The peas in the background were started two weeks earlier. In the foreground you can see my "field greens", spinach, beets, romaine. The carrots have yet to make an appearance!

Wild Onions

These are the little red "wild" onions that I planted in a pile of dirt before I had the main garden established. The pencil is to show scale. You can see that there are onions and also weeds/grass.

Broccoli in Little Red Wagon

This is the broccoli growing in the wagon. I planted it from starts. One of them was getting nibbled on by an unseen buggie. I read that if bugs think another bug has already established it's domain, they will not land there. That is why I have the metal butterflies hovering over the broccoli. It seems to be working as there is no other leaves have been eaten!