Organic Gardening Progress 9/27 - Week 6

This is my Week 6 since I started this blog on organic gardening progress.




Your can see my progress week by week here



This week we actually had more stuff to pick:

Parsley, arugula and kale

First almost red cherry tomato! :)

Radish

Sprouts

I was able to make fresh salad twice this week with greens from my garden, which was a progress!

Arugula, sprouts, radish, beet leaves

I think I figured out how to grow my sprouts. You can see I used an old container from salad greens with soil and keep it on a sunny window. So you can see the progress 

week 1

week 2 ready to eat

Updates in my garden:

More green tomatoes forming

Bell Pepper is getting bigger

Veggies in my main veggie bed start flowering and getting bigger. I picked arugula, radish and some beat leaves from here.

All Zucchinis keep flowering but still only male flowers... :(

This was my last week project. I planted cucumbers but then I've got strawberries in the mail, so I had to figure out where to plant them, so I added couple here too. :)

We had this cute visitor one night :)

Thanks for reading and happy gardening!

Organic gardening progress 9/4 - Week 3

I was out of town for 4 days helping my mom moving her stuff and when I came back I was surprised how everything grew just in 4 days.
My previous post are here and here.

Before leaving I built Veggie bed #3 and planted my tomatoes, okra and zucchini. Here how it looked on my first try.

Then I noticed that my cats still figured out to use this veggie bed as a litter box, so I added more folks... :)

Below is the latest update on this veggie bed. As you might notice I planted different salad greens as well as beets and radishes in between tomatoes. 

In my Veggie bed # 1 tomatoes are flowering and even have couple of baby tomatoes on.

 Zucchini is getting bigger 

Veggie bed # 2 doesn't look good. So I will have to figure out what can grow well on this side of the house.

This is my upcoming weekend project. I ordered dwarf Banana, Fig and Pomegranate trees. I will plant those into pots. Four cherries bushes I will plant in one of flower beds. Then I also received strawberries roots, which I plan to plant some in ground and some in a big pot. They don't grow well here but I will try again.

I still have half of Veggie bed # 3 is empty, so I will plant there those.

Here are two ladies who are always on a mission of destroying my veggies beds.

Happy Gardening!

Organic Gardening Progress this week 8/23 - Week 2

Today I picked up some greens from my little garden.  :)

We drink cold mint tea all summer long. Kale and cucumber will be used in our fresh salad.  Parsley and basil will add flavor to the pasta sauce later today. 

My veggies have grown since last week. 

My boyfriend bought me two tomatoes and one zucchini plant. You only can see one tomato on the picture because I planted zucchini and another tomato in a different spot.

Little tomatoes from seeds are getting bigger. I will be planting them outside soon.

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I planted root from store bought celery and I have a new plant now. It's much easier than to grow celery from a seed! I like recycling!

Happy Gardening!

New Veggie Bed - Week 1

Yesterday and today I was working on creating a new veggies bed.

So far it looks like this

I had to add these old flowers and folks in order to distruct my cats from using this veggie bed as their litter box.

I made a little diagram of stuff I planted there, so I would remember. :) I am not sure which plants actually will survive due to our weather and my cats but i will hope for the best. 

This is my veggie bed on the other side 

Not much so far...

I have a small messy veggie bed in the other corner of my backyard but it doesn't have much there instead of lonely cucumber plant, kale and parsley.

I think by posting pics and progress here I will stay more organized and keep working on my veggies beds instead of abandoning them. :)

Soon I will be planting these plants too. They are mostly tomatoes, lemon grass and something else. My cats dropped two boxes down one day and now I am not sure which plants are growing in this box besides easily identified tomatoes.