The fabric bed under the lemon tree is a huge success. It looks like all the copy about fabric beds being good for roots has some merit. While it’s a risk growing yet more cabbage family plants this time of year with the cabbage fly- I’m hoping the quick harvest time on some of these will give me a reprieve from the maggots.
The French breakfast radishes are beautiful- and tasty.
Radishes are possibly the quickest growing vegetable available- at least the small guys- daikon is another delicious story. 20-30 days from seed to harvest. I scatter them in shady areas around the garden- as long as they aren’t in a bed with a legume they grow fast and fat.
My first green onions are ready to harvest as well. These are also good to scatter throughout the garden, for a few reasons. One- like a lot of alliums, they repel pests. Two- they need very little space. Because they grow vertically and thinly, you can really pack them into a bed. And three- unlike radishes and other root crops, you can total put them in a bed with a legume, and take advantage of all that sexy nitrogen.
Here’s my first fat scallion. These are also, much like radishes, a crop you can basically grow year round in my climate. Radishes will get a little iffy in the absolute hottest of weather- but even then they’ll grow in a shady spot. Nothing stops an green onion. Big onions have some restrictions, I’ve never grown them due to being a bit nervous about it- it scallions are like gardening on easy mode.
A few days before the great radish harvest- I pulled the horrible ugly dead potato bags and discovered they actually had given me potatoes.
Not a lot of potatoes- but I’ll take it.
Those are some nice thin skinned new potatoes. Of course the six remaining heathy bags will give me many more potatoes than this.
They wait- growing bushier by the second.
Fingerling potato heaven here I come!
Do you have a small apple tree in the back corner too?
Yes I do- though the apples it bears don’t conform to any known variety. Mom swears it was a golden delicious when she put it in- it clearly isn’t now.
Do you think it suckered from below the graft and replaced the scion?
Possibly, but I have no way of knowing for sure
Well, perhaps I will see the apples this autumn or late summer.