I'm afraid this will be the only sun I can show you shining on my garden today. The rains have finally come to Southern California; if the weather man is correct it sounds like we will have about three days worth. I took a quick walk to take a few photos of the beds and to cut a lot of the lettuces before the rain beats down so hard that they get muddy. We are forecast for some hail and I don't want it to ruin the leaves of the kale and swiss chard, so I cut as much as I think we will need for the week.
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| Bed 1, Kale and Beets |
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| Bed 2, Swiss Chard and lettuces |
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| Bed 3, Snow peas. Also in this bed is newly seeded Cilantro, Arugula, Radishes and more Onion Sets |
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| Oak Leaf Lettuce. Ruby Red Swiss Chard to the right |
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| Mache (or Corn Salad), Red Sails, Tango Lettuce Leaf and Spring Onions |
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| more Red Sails, Tango, and cilantro popping up in back |
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| this is a blend of Asian greens, includes Arugula, Chinese cabbage, Japanese Spinach, Mizuna (mustard) , mustard greens red and green, Ruby Streaks mustard, and Tatsoi Bok Choy. A nice blend of mild an spicy salad greens that is also nice to add to soups. |
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| Nero Toscana or Italian Lacinato Kale; also known as Dino Kale |
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| Garlic and Bok Choy seedlings |
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| Onions and more greens seedlings. |
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| Seedling progress. These will go in the garden in March. Peppers and tomatoes. |
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| Tomato and Summer Squash seedlings |
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| Swiss Chard, Kale, Arugula and Cilantro backups |
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| Nasturtiums coming up on front bank and under grapefruit tree. I like to save a lot of the fresh seeds to pickle and use like capers. The flowers are wonderful in salads or stuffed with an herb goat cheese. I am happy that they reseed freely! |
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| Lavatera (tree mallow-malva) in the Butterfly and Hummingbird Garden along our driveway |
Rain
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895).
Scottish essayist, novelist and poet.
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