The real advantage of gardening in San Francisco is that planting season rules are a lot like the pirate code. Guidelines. Guidelines that I cheerfully ignore. Sure I might get a failure or two (or three or four) but due to the weird late fall hot weather I might get some wild successes. There are … Continue reading Late June plantings
So I covered my six potato bags with more soil a bit back, and while five of those bags are going strong, the sixth decided to give up the ghost. Pictured, five healthy potato bags and one goner. But that doesn't mean no potatoes- it just means less potatoes. The point of continually topping up … Continue reading Unexpected potato harvest
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 … Continue reading Yesterday’s breakfast harvest
Yesterday I was fed up with how runty and withered my two smallest cauliflowers were, so I pulled the weakest. Low and behold, the roots were crawling with cabbage fly maggots. I pulled the other one too- same story. The problem was, as you can see from one of the healthier ones- The roots actually … Continue reading A Buggy start to May
It's been sunny and clear for several days thankfully, and it will continue to be clear for a while yet. (Fingers crossed!) Unfortunately while it has stopped raining, it has not stopped wind-ing. Ha ha oops. There goes the garlic chives! My fault for using that old plastic pot I guess- I had gambled that … Continue reading San Francisco perils: wind and sun
The Neanderthal Gardens 