Potato - part II

My seed potatoes arrived this week and I immediately planted them. I'm having a lot of problems with some kind of animal that's been eating my fava and pea beans and nibbling on some of my potatoes. I put a squirrel trap out there today. Hopefully it was a squirrel.

Here is what I have in my garden, lots of green medium tomatoes. I picked some medium and small green tomatoes today waiting for Thanksgiving. They are in the kitchen next to some green bananas which emit ethylene and can help the ripening process.

Light due droplets on tomato leaves

Pink stock

Close-up of pink stock

A sugar snap pea pod

Fava bean bed

Flowers flowing from the pot

Brocolini, a type of broccoli

Potato

This morning the weather is sunny and warm with dry air and temperature in the 70's, a remarkably nice day in fact . Warm enough that my Tumbling Tom tomatoes are turning pinkish. I'm totally excited, I was originally planning to pick them green and let them ripen in-doors.

I've worked my way through the second big compost bin and made about 3 cubic feet of compost. It's enough to use to prepare my potato bed whilst waiting for potato seeds to arrive, the ones that ordered from Peaceful Valley farm. This is a picture of the pile of what was left of the compost.

Potato bed taken from the back side

Potato bed taken from the front side

Dianthus and Stock plants are flowing and have buds

A cucumber for Thanksgiving dinner?

Picture of my backyard where rows of peas, radishes, garlic, kales, and turnips are growing nicely.

Turnip

Turnip is not one of my favorite vegetables but I've always planted a few turnips here and there for soup I make with the Turkey carcass the day after Thanksgiving. This morning, I discovered that my turnip plants are growing nicely because I did some thinning about two weeks ago. Hopefully, I'll get some large size turnips for the Turkey soup when needed.

Turnips


Close-up of one turnip

Tomato bed, growing like a jungle

Tumbling Tom's are ripening. Well, almost.

Medium tomatoes show sign of ripening

Lots of nice marjoram, not sure what to do here

Bearless lime tree among the bushy lavender

Lavender close-up

Finally a decent size eggplant!

Bulbs

I did a lot of garden work this morning, no wonder I don't have time to exercise. But garden work is still excercise but not as intense.
I cleaned up two containers and planted my hyacinth, anemone, and ranunculus bulbs.
I replanted a second bed of fava beans, all the fava bean seeds previously planted disappeared without a trace. Here are some pictures of my garden today.

Pea blossoms


Stupice tomatoes


The snap in the snapdragon flowers

Snapdragon

I spent a lot of time this morning cleaning up my yard for more room to grow more vegetables. I don't think I'll ever have enough land. I picked a couple of Alaska type of peas, they were delicious. I sowed more peas, I'm having a problem keeping some creature from eating my peas before they get a chance to grow. I don't blame them, the peas are so tasty, and I know it's not the small birds anymore. My yield rate is like 5-10% survival. I need to order more pea seeds.

Snapdragon


Close-up snapdragon


Asian vegetables

Mache

Mache is usually described as "A tender, velvety green sweet lettuce with a mild nutty flavour, having broad or narrow shaped dark or medium, round or spoon shaped leaves". I planted this type of lettuce a while back and they finally came up after I fertilized with compost tea.



Snapdragon

Morning glory that comes over the fence, from the neighbor's yard.

Misty Fall morning

It's misty this morning,this weather brings out the color in the leaves.
Blackberry leaves turning red

The fava bean bed is going strong

Close-up picture of fava beans


The tomato bed is doing super well, there are lots of tomatoes, the plants are growing like a jungle. I put it down to an extra-dilligent soil preparation job.


Tombling Tom tomatoes


Medium tomatoes

And a cucumber plant that keeps on giving

Dew on a rose

Dew on the coriopsis

Tomatillo

Today I'm going to make chili verde, I just feel like it, and also I'll use all of my hot and banana peppers. However, my tomatillo plant is producing only tiny fruits, so I had to purchase some regular size tomatillos from the supermarket for the dish. Next year, I'll definitely try to start the tomatillo a lot earlier. This is my first year of growing this fruit so I don't know if it'll survive our winter.

Here is what I picked for lettuce for dinner, includes watercress, aragula, red kale and tuscany kale. I also picked one European cucumber, it's a little small but it's edible.



Row of containers of all different kind of lettuces

Close-up of one container

More garden flower pictures below

Begonias

Snap dragon budding


Second petunia flower


Naturalized Coriopsis, I can't eliminate this flower, it keeps coming back through the compost.