not as nice and lush as my parents but grow it did...
producing about four of these babies...
The shape of this bittermelon variety (Hong Kong/bought from Seafood City back in late April) is kind of tear drop shaped instead of the long fat cigar shapes I'm used to. I was excited to see the bittermelon fruits because I'd been wanting to make pinakbet.
Pictured in the garden are my jalapenos (in the back) interspersed with green onions that I shoved int the soil which grew quite nicely, red chard, eggplant and flat leaf kale.
From the North Park nursery, I bought this mixed leaf salad mix.
It looked nice and healthy for a few weeks then later died of neglect. Since it was in a pot, that meant I had to hand water it and yeah...I was lazy to do so on those super hot days we had. Sigh. I did pick some leaves when it was still fairly new. They were too bitter and had some prickles on the spines. Not so fun to eat.
Thai basic and regular basil. Ibought this primarily for making pestos. Like the salad mix above, this was okay for a tiny bit, then died from lack of watering. My bad, I admit.
Our strawberry plants were sending out runners...
We ended up anchoring the runners in smaller pots with wire stakes. After two to three weeks, after the roots were established in the pots, I cut the stems and gave about five of them to my dad for his garden. We were able to secure about twelve smaller plants from the three mother plants.
Curly kale given to us by my parents since my first batch was eaten by something.
The pine cones were there to detract the neighbors cat from doing his business in our garden. Asides from our motion sensor sprinkler and putting down chicken wire on the ground to deter him digging up the soil, the cat seems to have left this side of our back yard alone.
I still have to post more pix from when we first planted...It's been fun being able to grow so many different types of vegetables again.
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