A rather ugly picture
of the
garden or perhaps it should be a picture of a rather ugly garden (at
least in this grey early morning light)
A pretty average list
of crops
this year (mostly stuff I like to eat): brocolli, lettuce, spinach,
beets, snow peas and that's about it.
Brocolli (the big plants in back), lettuce and beets (in front).
Another bed with brocolli and various types of lettuce. Note
the holes in the brocolli leaves.
I enjoy seeing what bugs show up in my garden, up to a
point. I'm willing to share some of what I have with them.
But they sometimes get carried away. This little guy is no longer
with us. I picked him off the leaf and threw him into one of the
garden paths. I suspect a bird then got him.
These are snow peas.
They're much better than you can find in stores (you can pick them when
they're small, tender, and sweet) and a lot cheaper. They are
great in stir fry dishes. They do very well in the winter in
Tucson.
They'll grow 4 or 5 feet tall as a vine if you provide
something to support them. Note the little tendrils that grab
onto whatever is close by.
In past years I've grown onions, melons, corn, radishes,
carrots, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, celery, wheat, oats, barley,
alfalfa, beans, okra, sweet potatoes, collard greens, and leeks.
At least that's what I can remember.
I often grow vegetables that I don't like, just to see what the
plants
look like and to see what kinds of bugs they attract.
There are a few things I would still like to try to grow: cotton,
tobacco, rice, eggplant, artichokes.
There is at least one thing I have no intention of ever growing:
brussel sprouts.
I would like to grow more kinds of herbs.
This is rosemary and is very common
in Tucson.
A close up view.
And this is a bay leaf bush
(tree?). I'll never be able to use all these bay leaves, but I
can't really cut the plant down.
Here are a few pictures not shown in class.
An organic garden
wouldn't be complete without some kind of a compost pile. The
newer stuff is on the left. The stuff on the right is further
along in the decomposition process.
Looking east in the
alley next to the garden. You may recognize the cat. The
alley behind someone's house is usually a lot more interesting that the
street in front.
The same alley looking
west
I couldn't pass up this
picture of my cat Fox looking cross.
