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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Today in the garden Dec 28 2019

Today I planted lettuce, radish and spinach seeds in the garden and I also planted tomato seeds inside.

It’s the third time this year when I plant spinach and none of the seeds germinated, hopefully they will this time. I planted the spinach in rows between my broccoli and cauliflower plants.

Spinach seeds in rows next to cauliflower and broccoli

I planted lettuce seeds in a few rows next to the older lettuce plants. I plan to transplant them when I will make more space in the garden.

I also planted more radishes, but I feel that they are growing very slowly this year comparing with previous years. I planted some seeds almost 2 months ago and they are not big enough yet. I’m going to plant seeds every 2-3 weeks to have a continuous supply of them until the weather will be too hot for them to grow. Radishes are among our most favorite vegetables during the winter season.

New rows of radish seeds planted on December 7

I planted a second round of radish seeds between the rows from November 18.

I also planted my tomato seeds inside. I chose 8 varieties: Cherokee purple, Glacier, Cherry red, Cherry black, Brandywine yellow (they were my favorite this year), Brandywine red, Better boy and a small oval yellow one (last year I got some tomatoes from a friend and saved the seeds, but I don’t know what kind it is).

This year I will try to limit my tomato plants to under 20. I’m planing on keeping 2 plants from each variety, so I can have a backup, just in case something happens with one of them. I will most likely not resist buying other new varieties from Costco or Armstrong gardens. But even if I buy 4 more kinds, I will still be at 20 plants max.

Another project for today was to multiply my very young blackberry plant that I received at one of this year’s local gardeners food swap (I don’t know the variety). I saw a video on youtube that was explaining how blackberry propagates and they said that when the tip of the plant touches the soil it will grow root. I took the tip of the plant and I inserted it inside a cup filled with potting mix. I will check back in 1 month to see if it has grown roots.