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Dear readers,
You might have noticed I have not been blogging so much this gardening season.. This is because I moved to Instagramming my gardening experience.. So kindly follow for my latest gardening posts
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January 19 Tour
peppers blushing
cluster hues
grape like
roma tomatoes
romas
beefsteaks
san marzanos growing through the cold
flowering mustard which I pulled out
I’ve pulled out some of the flowering collards, especially the ones cabbage loopers took over.. and planted thinned out kale seedlings, after adding my home made compost as a mulch of course.
I’ve pulled out some of the flowering collards, especially the ones cabbage loopers took over.. and planted thinned out kale seedlings, after adding my home made compost as a mulch of course.
the cutest sun cherries
purslane pettuce
January 4 Closeups
leaf lettuce mix
parsley
pak choi
roma tomato
beef steak
roma tomato
san marzano
roma tomato
lettuce
parsley
mustard
thyme
cilantro
dill
parsley mix
beet leaves
mustard
Planted Raised Beds Available For Delivery!
With the success of my own square foot gardening raised beds, I was getting a lot of requests from readers to create raised beds for sale, so I’ve made a limited number of these beds which are made of high quality red wood and are planted with the best leafy greens to last until May.
The beds come in two sizes 1×3 ft squared and 2×4 ft squared.
  If interested, please email itallgrows@gmail.com for details.
Pruning = Harvest
The best way for a home gardener to get the best out of their leafy greens is the ‘cut and come again’ method.
This method is practiced by cutting a few of the outer leaves of each plant while leaving around 2/3 of the plant. This allows the plant to force new leaves to grow and not resort to flowering very soon. If you leave your plant for a long time without pruning (cutting) it will slow its growth down and begin to flower.
Weekly harvest
In a large enough garden, you can gather all of the pruning which will give you back more leaves in a matter of days, and turn it into a harvest. This is how I always harvest my leafy greens to get them to live longer and produce faster.
Cut and come again method for Pak Choi
- Cut and come again method for Mustard
Cut and come again for Arugula
Just cut a few of the outer leaves, leaving the plant still strong enough to create more leaves. Never strip away your plant.
Weekly harvest
Snaps From The Garden
Today, the weather is beautiful with bright sunshine and a cool breeze, this weather is tomatoes’ favorite, so I’m happy to see tomatoes responding well to the sunshine after a week of cloudy, dark weather.
One of the beefsteak tomatoes has several ‘superbloom’ or ‘megabloom‘ flowers. Which is basically two or more flowers in one, giving the fruit a weird, large shape.. megablooms are the conjoined twins of tomatoes. I look forward to the freaky fruit to come.
One of the megablooms seems to think its a sunflower, its streched out and standing tall the same way, I’ve never seen anything like it.
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- Pak Choi
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- Mixed Lettuce
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- Ruby Lettuce
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- Pak Choi
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- Roma tomatoes
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- Superbloom flower
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- Superbloom flower
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- Kale
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- Kale
Coming Soon!
With the success my raised beds have had last year, I decided to create better, more beginner friendly raised beds to sell to all of you readers eager to start gardening but with no idea how..
Stay tuned for my announcement soon!
Follow The Bee
My garden is buzzing with bees thanks to my tomato and pepper flowers.
Here is a garden photo tour brought to you by this pepper crazy bee:
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