Naughty and Nice

Neighbors spread redwood chips around the beds and it's all pretty now. The plants are doing great even though we've been shrouded in dreary days of fog.


Neighbor also went out and as he put it, "bought a hammock chair for the garden". It arrived and was set up in the yard. I don't know about you, but I think I should be wearing black leather and carrying a whip while sitting in that chair. Or spanking whoever is...



Neighbor(who has been very busy) bought a compost worm bin. A few days later 200 red worms arrived. They are happily eating all of our leftover bits although it took me a week to gather enough courage to lift the cover and look at them. Ugh, me and worms...yuck! Spiders I can deal with. Worms...I am getting the creeps just typing this. So, poured a little tea out to see if it was working and voila, we have tea although really stinky tea. And I mean really stinky. I hope that's normal.

All in all, a very productive week in our little garden.

Week 3 in the Lunado Garden

The hot weather last week really jump started the seedlings. They survived the heat and look a good 2 inches taller. Kids grow up so fast...Anywho, lettuce really shot up and I can almost make a baby greens salad for 1.



A few squash seeds from last years crop have starting popping up unannounced. They are NOT in my garden plan but I can't just pull them out. What to do? I don't have enough room and couldn't even tell you what type they were. I do need to start thinning out the onions and leeks. I've never done that before so keep your fingers crossed.



I did complete a garden project by painting an ugly white garage sale table a nice Pear Green.



The Snowball tree is finally in bloom. It's a short show but one worth the wait.

Lunado Garden - Week One

This is going to be the year I harvest a tomatoe from my very own garden. I live in the Sunset District of San Francisco i.e. Fog Belt. Since moving from Sonoma County where each year I had healthy happy heavy-producing gardens, I have been trying to grow tomatoes with no luck. Last year my husband and I kept looking over into our neighbors garden that on sunny days got lots of sun. Hum...either we convince them to put in a pool or we convince them to put in a veggie garden. Well, we now have 3 raised beds to play with. Last year we started a little late but things were moving along nicely until the Summer of Fog hit us. Alas, no tomatoes. Squash did great but nothing else really made it. This year, we got started much earlier. We tilled the soil and filled each bed with very stinky chicken manure on April 11. TIP Do not invite people for an outdoor cocktail party the evening you put manure in your garden. Anyway, had a lovely day picking seedlings at Flowercraft. I went a little nuts in the tomatoe department. Due to my bad luck in the past, I've decided to mostly do cherry tomatoes. I also purchased leeks, onions, lettuce, basil, squash, thyme, oregano and lots of marigolds to protect from pests. Everything went in on April 13. I then found Grow Better Veggies blog and realised I am doing it all wrong. Cynthia puts fishheads, eggshells, aspirin (aspirin?), bonemeal, fertilizer and worm castings under each new plant. Egads! I thought I was being pretty smart with my chicken manure and compost. Do I pull them out and start over? Where to get fishheads? Now I'm nervous. Anyway, here are some pics of the new garden. ~K