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My Fall Garden
Oct. 16, 2015 The turnips, lettuces, green
beans, and peas are just starting to sprout out! I planted eight cabbage plants, and more seedlings are expected
soon!
Oct 19, 2015 From left to right, Peas
are by the upright sticks, corn coming up in the large area behind that. Just to the right of the peas is the broccoli,
but too small to see yet. The green beans are at the foot of the tent-poled bamboo sticks, and between them and
the fence are squash. On the far right are turnips, and to their right along the low fence, four kinds of lettuces.
Cabbages form a line in the foreground. You can also see one of my apple trees, a dwarf navel orange to its
left, and there are a few leaves from the lemon tree I'm standing by. I have another apple tree, a pineapple guava,
another lemon tree, lime tree, kumquat, mandarin orange, and a blueberry & blackberry bush. I live on Orchard
Avenue (used to be orchards here in the '40's)...I'm making sure this lot lives up to that once more. My formal
name for the place is Orchard House Farms.
Oct 24, 2015
31 Oct 2015 Babies are growing. Yesterday,
before yet another rain storm.
31 Oct 2015 My biggest challenge
in gardening here is trying to battle the roller-coaster temperatures & humidity fluctuations. We go between
2% and 80% humidity...sometimes in less than a week. The soil is sand & clay here. I'm lucky; this area
used to be all orchards before the 60's, and the soil is better than 95% of the city. I amend the soil with peat moss
& composted plants
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| CABBAGE |
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| SNOW PEAS |
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| CORN |
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| PEAS & POLE BEANS |
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| PEAS |
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| BEANS |
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| SQUASH |
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