Marin Homestead
From the monthly archives: June 2009
We never got around to building a trellis for our lemon cucumber. We have been so busy with parties, family and friend visits that we kept on putting the task off. Of course we had a wicked heatspell (over 100 degrees) that caused our lemon cucmber to grow at a freakish rate.
All of a [...]
I asked my husband to put down some cardboard as sort of a mulch so my melons would not have to ripen on the hard, dirty, clay soil and look what we found. They seemed to have come out of nowhere as we just started having female blossoms.
Here are some pics of my little [...]
I just wanted to post some pics of my Ace Bell Pepper. This plant is supposed to be a good producer and not have a problem with blossom set. It is also supposed to be smaller (between 18-24 inches tall).
This is my ace bell pepper May 23, 2009.
The last couple of days I found these 2 caterpillars in my garden.
I was looking over my sungold in my cinderblock garden when i saw a leaf with a bunch of holes in it. All the other leaves looked fine. When I turned the leaf over, look what i found….the evil HORNWORM.
Hornworms are [...]
My Sun Sugar was the first to ripen. I am so excited to try it as it is supposed to be very sweet and yummy. My cherries are going nuts and I have 6 planted. Next year i think i will only do 2-3 cherries as they produce 100′s of tomatoes on each plant.
I [...]
A brief 2 month Update. I am due any day now so it is very difficult to take pics.
Here is the cinderblock garden. The sun has shifted so it is getting less sun a day than it was a month ago but it is pretty intense so I think that may actually be a [...]
Went out this morning and this little (actually not so little) bee was pollinating my tomato, squashes, cucmbers, and melons.
I also saw some honeybees but they were too deep in the squash blossom to get a good pic.
This is my cute Oaxacan Jewel. It is such a stubby little plant. I think it is wider than it is tall and stands at about 2 feet. For such a little plant it does put out some cute little heart shaped tomatoes.
Marvel Stripe(d): This heirloom variety has become one of gardeners’ favorite bicolored tomatoes because of its beauty, size, and taste. Large yellow-orange fruits are streaked with ruby red and have a sweet, fruity taste that is absolutely delicious. Tomatoes weigh about 1 lb., although they often become 2 lbs. or even more. Large harvests on [...]
Just thought I would share a pic of a baby lemon cucmber. I am not sure if this has been pollinated but did see a honeybee buzzing around.
Well, I had my first tomato casualty today. I was sort of expecting it as things have been going TOO smoothly in my garden. My beginner’s luck could only hold out for so long, right?
I found one of my san marzano has BER (blossom end rot). I heard it is pretty common with paste/plum [...]
Well I know I said i was going to prune all the mangos off the tree but I could not help but leave some on. This is the Lancetilla Mango and I have pruned about 95% of the mangos off but had to leave these ones. I guess I am just trying to see how [...]
Here is a small update…i will post a more detailed one next week.
This is my stupice…yesterday part of it wilted and I suspected fusarium or verticillium wilt. I watered it thoroughly and today it has recovered…I hope it was just an issue of it being too hot because it has alot of fruit on [...]
This is what I have been snacking on…My mom brought them back from orange county and they are fantastic! Even my husband who is not a fruit fanatic like I am cannot get enough of the mangosteen and wants to try to germinate the seeds…i think we have a better chance of winning [...]
Does anyone have any idea what it is? We eat alot of fruit so maybe papaya? it looks like a type of squash or melon but we haven’t had much of that yet.
This is my lancetilla mango tree and it has HUGE inflorescence and now some itty bitty mangos. These will most likely fall off on their own but if they don’t I will have to thin them out myself as the tree is way to small to support the weight of a mango. Lancetilla mangos are [...]
Here is a pic of my cocozelle zucchini. This is a great beginner squash plant. It does not get too big and is a good producer. These cocozelle zucchini are between 7-8 inches long.
I’ll let you know what we do with them tonight but most likely I will just saute [...]
Here is the vegetable garden update for June 7, 2009. It has been about 1.5 months since I put the planted out.
Here is the cinder block garden. We had over a week of colder, overcast weather so the plants did not grow as vigorously as they did in past weeks. Today was the first [...]
