Tag: Broccoli

Garden journal – November 2020 part 2

My artichoke plant multiplied like crazy, it had a lot of baby plants and I decided to split them. It was hard to figure out exactly how many they were until I split them, I ended up with 10 different plants. I left 2 in the same spot, transplanted 5 in the ground and 3 in pots. Some of them had nice roots, others just a small root or none. I transplanted the ones that didn’t look so good in pots.

I don’t have much space in the garden, so I decided to transplant the artichoke between my mint, they don’t get much sun in that area, but I hope it won’t affect the plants too much.

  • Artichoke

I planted more radishes in the space were I use to have the eggplants.

  • Radishes

I didn’t have enough garlic to fill the entire area when I planted the garlic a month ago, so I got some more garlic and planted it. It’s a different variety than the first one. Both of them were bought from the grocery store, grown in California, but I don’t know the variety.

I also planted mare spinach seeds, since not all the seeds I planted a month ago germinated. This is 3rd round of spinach seeds … fingers crossed!

The squirrels are staring to prepare for winter and are hiding nuts in my garden. They messed up one of my broccoli plants and the arugula 3 times in one week! I had to transplant the broccoli plant 3 times and it’s still alive 🙂

Garden journal – October 2020 part 1

In the month of October, I continued planting the cool season vegetables: onions, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, arugula, carrots, spinach, Fava beans and peas.

I also transplanted the sequoia strawberries in a bigger container. The small plant purchased last year multiplied and I had to move it into a bigger container. I transplanted 6 plants in a big rectangle container.

  • Strawberries in original pot
  • New container
  • Sequoia strawberries transplanted

I removed most of the remaining basil plants and amended the soil with steer manure. Afterwards I prepared the rows and planted the lettuce, arugula and spinach seeds. I also planted yellow onion bulbs and transplanted the broccoli and cauliflower seedlings.

  • Garden bed
  • Garden bed after I removed the basil plants
  • Steer manure
  • I mixed the steer manure with the soil
  • Onion
  • Cauliflower seedlings
  • Broccoli seedlings
  • Lettuce
  • Arugula
  • Spinach

Another project was to remove the weeds from another space in my garden where I had the summer squash and zucchini and plant cool season plants. I amended the soil with steer manure and planted carrots, arugula, radishes and Fava beans.

  • Prepared the space
  • Added steer manure
  • Mixed the steer manure with the soil
  • I soaked the Fava beans in water for 24 hours before planting
  • Planted the Fava beans
  • Rows for carrots, radishes and arugula

The last project was to plant the peas in 5 gallon pots. They are growing very fast: they spouted in 1 week and 3 days later they were already around 4-5″ tall.

  • 5 gallon pots with peas
  • Peas after 1 week
  • 3 days later