Marin Homestead
From the monthly archives: May 2009
I love this zucchini plant so far. It is a very vigorous grower and the flowers are gorgeous! Also, crossing my fingers but it seems to be a good producer from all the blossoms I see. Let’s hope they all pollinate properly so I have a good harvest.
If not, stuff squash blossoms are delicious [...]
I know I just updated with pics one week ago but I just wanted to show how much growth can occur in such a short time.
Here is a pic of the cinderblock garden. We have attached the extension to the tomato cages because the tomato plants are just growing so quickly. About 1-2 inches [...]
My little ace pepper has a flower. This plant is so tiny compared to my tomato plants. It is only about 10 inches tall but I read it is only going to get around 15-18 inches tall. I’ll be surprised if I get any peppers from it.
Here are 2 of 6 melon plants that I have. They were really slow growing when the weather was cooler but now that it is starting to warm up, I can see alot of growth every day. Day time temps have been in high 70′s, nighttime temps mid-50′s.
This is my honey orange. It is [...]
Here are some more pictures of my tropical trees.
This is my Glenn Mango that I got in february. This is the only mango tree that I have that has not set any blossoms but look at the beautiful new growth. The leaves are just gorgeous.
I just wanted to post about our strawberries. They are such an easy and pretty plant. This morning our son picked 2 ripe berries so I was only able to take a pic of the unripe berries. These are Eversweet, everbearing strawberries.
I thought I would elaborate more on the blueberry bushes that I planted. As I stated below, I planted 4 southern high bush blueberry plants. We planted these beginning of May (I think
May 7, 2009).
2 are Misty blueberry plants:
Sky-blue, medium large, very sweet fruit matures early season from midsummer through [...]
Well it has been 1 month since I last used fertilizer. I had put some Dynamite Mater Magic Tomato Food (5-5-9) in the planting hole when I planted out.
Dynamite Mater Magic Tomato Food (5-5-9)
Dynamite tomato food is Completely Organic and OMRI certified this cute little bottle contains the perfect [...]
Well I guess today is a good day to show the progression of the garden. We planted out on April 23, 2009 and these pics were taken today, May 22, 2009.
Here is a pic of the cinder block garden. Below is the same garden one month ago. I am so amazed at how fast [...]
It has been exactly 3 weeks since we planted in the garden beds. The poor little transplants looked so tiny and i was afraid they would not survive the 6 straight days of rain and cold we ended up getting right after the transplant but they all sirvived and flourished.
This is my sunsugar and [...]
Here are some fruit trees we have. This is a Babcock peach (white) with some grafts of a yellow peach. Hopefully the grafts will take. For such a young and little tree it has alot of small peaches on it.
My 20 month old son loves picking the strawberries and never shares them with us
Here are 4 southern high bush blueberry plants. We have 2 Misty and 2 Sunshine. This spot seemed ideal because it gets direct sun from the morning until noon, then some shade midday, then more sun in [...]
I am surprised my mango trees are still alive. I purchased them in late january and we had some really cold weather (below freezing). They did not like that!!
We also chopped the Carrie and Icea Cream mango trees down 1.5 feet to make them shorter and eventually bushier. They are now about 2.5 ft. [...]
I am late posting this but we planted our vegetable garden on April 23 and here are some pics.
My wonderful husband built me 2 garden beds because i didn’t think 1 was enough.
This is the raised garden made with blocks. It gets more direct sun for a shorter amount of time (approx. 6-7 [...]
A few days ago I went outside to find my beautiful, perfect basil was being eaten. Whatever it was did quite a bit of damage in one night.
I checked all the leaves for hornworms (caterpillars), aphids, etc. but found nothing. Every day i checked my basil to find more damage but no signs of [...]
