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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.

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

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 2

The spider mites invaded about half of my eggplants. I removed most of the leaves and I will wait to see if they will recover this late in the season, usually they have no problems regrowing the leaves and producing fruits during the summer and early autumn months.

Below are a few before and after pictures.

I removed most of the celery plants that were growing between my pepper and eggplants to give them more light now that the days are sorter and the weather gets cooler.

Another project was to remove the leaves that were attached by the spider mites from my potted tomato plants and spray them with neem oil.

I removed the papaya plant which dried out and rotted. I was surprised by the look of the roots and how easily they came out of the ground.

Because this year I had a lot of Fuyu persimmons I dried many of them. I cut the fruits in half, then cut them in slices about 1/4 inch thick and dried them for 12 hours at 135 F degrees. My food dehydrator was very busy this year since it was a very good year for fruit trees.

This month I also planted my garlic between the cauliflower plants.

How to transplant peppers and eggplants

The main project of the day was to transplant peppers and eggplants. Below is the list with all the projects presented in today’s post.

Transplant peppers and eggplants
Split eggplant seedlings into individual pots
Relocate a few celery plants
Transplant basil plants next to my tomato plants
Transplant garlic
Plant radishes and bush beans

Transplant peppers and eggplants

Most of the seedlings are ready to be transplanted in the garden, but I currently have some winter vegetables that I would like to keep for a few more weeks. I had a location in my garden with radishes that did not do that well, so I removed them and transplanted 6 eggplants and 4 peppers in their place.

The location where the pepper and eggplant seedlings will be planted

Split eggplant seedlings into individual pots

A few months ago, on February 15, I moved a few eggplant seedlings into 1 gallon pots, as you can see it in the seedlings update post. It was time to split them up into individual pots.

Multiple eggplant seedlings in the same pot

Eggplant seedlings after splitting the roots

Relocate celery

In one of my tomato garden beds I have a lot of volunteer celery from last year’s plants seeds. I removed some and relocated them into another spot in my garden, between 2 old trees.

Transplant basil

Next project was to transplant basil into the tomato garden beds, because basil is a good companion plant to tomatoes. Same as the eggplants, I had 3 or 4 plants in each pot and I split them up before transplanting.

Transplant garlic

Last year I planted garlic and onion on the edges of my garden beds. I didn’t harvest all the garlic, so this year they spouted again in groups. I split them up and planted them between peppers and eggplants.

Planting radishes

I had a few pots that will be empty for another month, so I decided to plant radishes in them, since they should be ready to eat in 1 month. Because I had some extra space after removing the volunteer celery, I planted radishes there too.

Planting bush beans

While going through my seeds collection, I discovered a very old packet from 2012 with gold rush bush beans. Since their planting time in my zone is between March and August, I decided to give it a try. I planted them in 4 of my 5 gallon pots. Fingers crossed!

Today in the garden Jan 11 2020

Today’s project was to make some space in my garden and use most of my compost, as the bin was overfilled and was starting to tilt. I decided to finally pull out some of my pepper plants and prepare the soil to feed my future pepper and eggplants during the summer. I also planted more radishes and lettuce seeds.

I temporarily transferred the top half of the compost bin to a different container. I used only the bottom half, which was ready to be mixed with the soil. After I used it all up, I transferred back the compost from the container to the bin. It usually takes about 6 months to have good compost.

This is one of the 2 garden beds where I decided to put my compost. This bed is about 4′ x 8′.

I removed the old plants.

I dug up 8-10″ of soil from one half.

I filled up the hole with the compost.

I covered the compost with the soil and did the same thing with the second half.

I replanted the garlic on the side and prepared new rows.

I planted lettuce and 2 types of radish seeds.

I did the same thing with the compost in a portion of the second garden bed: removed 10″ of soil, put the compost in the hole and then covered it back with soil.

I planted more radish seeds in the newly prepared soil.