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November 2020 harvest

November 2020 was better than last year, mostly because of the large persimmons harvest. We had almost 2.5 times more persimmons than last year!

Last year 45% of the harvest were vegetables, while this year only 10% were vegetables. I harvested 4 lbs of tomatoes this month and I’m very happy that my experiment worked! The tomatoes that I planted in pots late in the season, extended my tomato harvest season. I also have 2 Better boy tomatoes that I transplanted in March, which survived so far and have a lot of tomatoes on them.

Just like last month, the persimmons accounted for over 50% of the harvest. To be exact, 59% or 83.65 lbs of the harvest for the second month in a row.

The main 3 producers were: persimmons, guava and peppers, which make up 84% of the harvest for November.

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 – November 2020 part 1

There is not much to do in the garden these days. All the cool season plants are growing nicely and some of them are ready to harvest. We are using a lot of arugula since we have so much growing beautifully.

None of my parsnip seeds planted in the second part of September germinated, so I planted more seeds in the same location.

Walking through the garden I noticed that I didn’t have time to collect the seeds from a dill plant and a parsnip plant. Most of the seeds fell off, so it wasn’t much to collect, but I was able to save a few seeds.

I also planted green globe artichoke seeds to diversify. I currently have purple artichoke plants in the garden.

Below are a few pictures with the current state of the garden. My tomatoes never looked this nice in November. It looks that I will harvest a lot of tomatoes this winter, which is very exciting for my family!

Garden update – November 20 2020

This is the 1 year anniversary of garden update posts, my first garden update post was in November 2019 .

Since then, one of the papaya trees doubled in size and the other one that had the first fruits, but didn’t survive the summer heat. I think that it had too many fruits and could not put that much energy into growing stronger. I removed it a few weeks ago.

Vegetables

The cool season vegetables are growing nicely and are looking much better than the ones from last year. This year I amended the soil and also planted them earlier, which helped a lot.

This month I harvested a few tomatoes also, I think this is the first time I’m harvesting tomatoes in November and the plants are still producing.

The peppers are looking better than during the autumn months, but I don’t have as many as last year. Last year it was my best year for peppers.

Flowers

The milkweed is still blooming. I also split the artichoke plant because I had 10 baby plants growing next to each other. I planted a few of them in the ground between my mint plants and 3 of them I planted in pots.

The last round of dragon fruits is almost ready to harvest.

Berries

I noticed some buds on the blackberry plants for the first time.

Trees

All the citrus trees are changing the color. In contrast with the other fruits trees it seams that the citrus fruits are going to ripe later than previous year.

The persimmons are almost done.

Guava fruits are ready to harvest and cherimoya will be ready soon.

Garden update Nov 7 2019

In this series of Garden Update posts, I’m planning on posting images from my garden once or twice a month.

I’m starting with my first (accidental) papaya fruits! I tried growing papaya for a few years with no luck. They were too small and weak and would die during the winter months. These ones just happened to grow from the compost I used last year for a cherry tomato plant. After the tomato died, I had the pleasant surprise to see the papaya starting to grow 🙂

A very late planted sugar pie pumpkin that I got from our local backyard food growers exchange in June. I didn’t have space for it until my cherry tomato plant died in September. I probably won’t get any pumpkins from it.

A tomato planted late from a sucker that I rooted from one of my other plants.

My 2 year old improved meyer lemon tree.

A few late figs. I have 5 different fig varieties, but I don’t have the names for any of them since they were inherited with the house.

Giant parsley that grew very nicely during the summer in the shade of peppers and eggplants

This year I planted summer squash in containers and the result was disappointing. This is the last one for this year.

This is my second attempt at growing strawberries, after a few years. I planted them last month, in October. Hopefully this time I will be successful.