Fall planting - kohlrabi

I'm sad to say goodbye to summer for good as we're entering Fall. I'm not too excited about planting fall vegetables, especially after a very successful summer season. I do plant some vegetables to keep myself busy and while waiting for next summer.

More tomatoes

The last few weeks I have been picking a lot of tomatoes, almost a basket full, every few days. I gave one giant tomato, the size of a small plate, to a piano teacher. Some pictures of my garden today.

Sunflowers


Just picked tomatoes


Close-up, there are some big tomatoes

Giant pumpkin

I have been busy harvesting melons and tomatoes. I also managed to grow a Dill's giant pumpkin plant. Here is a picture of a baby giant pumpkin. Looking forward to Halloween!

Success!

This year has been a successful year, an abundance of tomatoes some are over a pound and a lot of melons. I have both type of melons in my garden: Charentais and Ambrosia.

Savor type Charentais melon.

Ambrosia

Big beautiful love apples(I don't have a clue what type)

Succulent strawberries

I have tomatoes!

I have a total of 50 plants of different varieties. Here are some pictures of them.



Great view from my window, campanula bell flowers and gladioli.

Purple flowers

Perfect weather this morning for Southern Cal area, bright and sunny, not too hot nor too cold, perfect for growing plants. My tomato plants are about 2 feet tall with lots of blossoms but I have yet to see any big tomato yet. Here are some pictures of plants in my garden.

Sweet pea flowers


Campanula flower


Ambrosia melon

Columbine

I was sick today so I did not do much in the garden except to move the leeks and make room for the next tomato batch. I also pulled out 2 melon plants. I made a mistake of planning too soon this year, somehow these plants were stunned and never recovered.

Picture of a Columbine flower I found this morning.

Kohlrabi

This morning is a typical Southern California weather, nice, warm and full of sunshine. It's the right kind of temperature for warm loving plants like melon.

Melons bed


As usual, I did a tour of my garden and I found 2 nice kohlrabi plants that are ready to be picked for dinner(but not tonight). In the fall, I planted a few seeds of kohlrabi in a corner and forgot about it. Fast forward to Spring, these kohlrabi are the size of a small onion.

Green kohlrabi


Purple kohlrabi


I moved my strawberries which were growing in a raised bed to this container and the strawberries that I have been harvesting here are so sweet. I guess I have to move the rest of my strawberries to container as well.

Harvesting carrots and garlic

This morning I pulled out all of my carrots, they are great for dinner. I also pulled lots of garlics while prepping for the next tomato bed.

Garlics


Carrots


Big tomato bloom, possibly the Big Zac variety


Blueberry plant that I planted this year, the fruits are so tasty

Green beans

Everything is going so well in my garden. So far, I've planted 20 heirloom tomatoes and they are about 2 feet tall. The green beans are starting to have flowers. Here is a picture of the flowers.

State of the garden

Here is a quick snapshot of my garden. I've planted these plants and what I thought were essentials to my garden.

Italian zucchini Romanesque


A patch with all kind of berries


Blackberries, thornless kind


Strawberries, sequoia type


And finally, heirloom tomatoes

Butterfly

I thought I'd almost abandoned this blog. I've been too busy with planting and sowing seeds. Today there was a beautiful butterfly on top of my compost bin so here I'm back to blogging and posting a picture of a beautiful butterfly, not sure what type it is.