A tour to the Vegetable garden

      Birds are singing, the grass is growing, the sun is shining, the weeds are setting seeds everywhere; It must be spring time. Beginning in late February and early March I began seeding my vegetable garden and it is doing fairly well. We have already harvested three good crops of radishes, as well as some nice looking carrots and we are now working on the Mesclun mix of salad.
      Here are some views of the garden as it appears this very date. And the please pray for some rain as I need to fill up my rain water barrels again.

Up front on the left are the tops of celery from store bought celery where I just cut off the bottoms and stuck the root end into the ground and they are growing. Just to the right of celery you can see the same result from some heads of lettuce.
The net is for the cucumber plants which are beginning to grow nicely. To the right of the net are two rows of Mesclun salad mix, very tasty stuff. To the right of the foot path are garlic plants and to the right of them you see some carrots tops.

We already mentioned the garlic and carrots. Barely visible to the right of the garlic are two long rows of onions and in between the onions where the cages are are (from front to back) tomatoes, hot peppers (Jalapeno and similar 2 plants) and then again a different type of tomato. Just barely out of the ground in the front are radishes. The big green thing in front is a Cilantro plant which is about to go to seed. Behind the cilantro are two tomato cages and the far cage is for Red Bell Peppers.  Between the cages are lettuce plants. In the barrel on the walkway you will find oregano.
 

To the left we have a row of radishes followed by a row of bunching onions.
Back behind the rain gauge is 1/2 row of onions and a row of radishes.
In front of the rain gauge is a short row of Iceberg lettuce  and
just to the left of the walkway in the center is a full row of Bok Choi, an oriental lettuce.
In the barrel directly in front, which has been divided into two parts;  1/2 barrel sweet basil and 1/2 barrel chives.
To the right of the walkway is a row of turnips just planted, followed by a row of Pak Choi, another oriental
lettuce. Then two rows of Beets. The green plant in front is Italian parsley.
In the far back right corner is the rosemary and the non-producing avocado tree.

 

The plastic bottle in front is my slug catcher, it is simply an empty 2 liter coke bottle.

Directly in front of us here we have from right to left.

A row of broccoli, which looks anemic, a row of carrots which seem to be doing OK.

A row of Arugula, just peeking out of the ground, a row of red cabbage, looking anemic.

 

 

     Here are a few different views of this small plot of land that I call my "back 40", and also a look at the "water cost reducers", in other words, the rainwater catch barrels, each holds 65 gallons (almost 246 liters).

 

 

 

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