Great looking potatoes, Silvia! What types are those? I would have never thought of that combination of roasted vegetables, but it looks so yummy my mouth is watering!

That salad and the mini cabbages are so beautiful. I planted the same lettuce, but it is way behind yours. I hope it looks as pretty as your eventually. What type of cabbage is that? We don't eat a lot of cabbage, but that one is so pretty!

Never heard of maestro peas or fava beans. How do you use those? The plants sure look pretty. Yes, I'm sure the apples and nectarines have gotten plenty of chill hours this year.

Your pooch looks so cute with that scarf around her neck. I bet she's a real sweetie.

Anna

Hi Ana

Thank you. The ligth colored are the rose potatoes, the big ones I think I mix some leftover from the other sets.

The mini cabbage is Gonzalez, enough for one serving, they are really good stir fry mix with cooked rice and chopped tomatoes, I called it unstuffed cabbage.:o)

Maestro peas are English peas or garden, they are flowering now and were planted after the super sugar snaps, those are 5 feet tall and not flowering.

Fava beans is a delicious bean that likes cold weather, I have planted 4 different varieties, the one in the picture has purple flowers and is rare, hope to save some seeds. The other varieties have white flowers.

And I have 3 dogs in the family, here they are dressed for Valentines day

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And a sunnier view of the seedlings in the porch, tomatoes included

Silvia

Dang girl, soon you won't have a square inch of unused patio or garden :-) Looking good....

Tom

Hi Tom

I have 30 different varieties of tomato plants in the pots, more in the plastic bins to be planted later when the weather cooperates and I can move some of the tomatoes to the garden. And I already distributed the tomatoes that I grow for friends.

The cold has been good to take more grass, I am going to have in one corner of the garden just fruit trees. It is looking different since you last saw it.

I put more fruit trees on the front yard, on both sides of the house. There is still room there.:o)

Next to the potatoes there is a trellis ready to grow the melons that you gave me and different winter squash.

The herb garden is looking good! I planted about 30 basil seedlings today, different kinds.

Silvia

Looking GOOD Silvia!

Will have to be on the Look Out for Gonzalez For Dad as He's the one with the Veg Garden....

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Hi NC

Thank you. All the mini cabbages are good and only one serving size. They also keep well like the carrots. I have white carrots coming up, with the red ones that I have it will be a nice combination.

It looks like all my passies will live, I can see green at the roots.

After this cold front is gone I can start putting the container plants in their place and have some friends over that want to see the garden.

Silvia

Silvia, better find some more room for radishes ;-) Remember, the Rat-Tail is supposed to be a summer grower for the edible pods.

Tom

Tom, I always have room.lol. Remember that all my crops are fast moving and harvested as soon as they are ready. The surplus goes to friends and neighbors, nothing ever goes to waste. I make pickles, marmalades and salsas for a lot of friends.

Now that is going to be a colder summer, you should try to plant runner beans, they like cooler temperatures, they are also the most ornamental beans that you can grow. I just got a variety with yellow leaves. Also have the varieties with red flowers. Let me know if you want to try those and I can send you.

Somebody sent me a perennial type of runner bean from China, it has huge seeds!

The cattle panel will make a nice trellis for the Rat-Tail radish...

Silvia

Thanks for the offer Silvia but it will be too hot here by April. For the most part we're about 15 degrees warmer than you are....

GOOD News about Your Passies....

Please Will You Post some Photos of the Mango and Nectarine as they Develope?
Thanks
NC

Silvia, I had forgotten to check back here. Your pups are absolutely adorable in their valentine garb. What a crew!

I can hardly wait to see where you put all your seedlings and new fruit trees. I learn so much from you.

I have only about 15 super sugar snaps that survived the cutworms and they are rather stagnant at about 2-3 feet. No blooms. Now I need that trellis space for tomatoes, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them.

Please keep showing us your progress.

Anna

NC, the first fruit to ripen is going to be the loquat, Japanese plum that taste slightly like ripe apricots.

I also have a cocktail plum, cocktail pear, peach, apples and figs, some of them hopefully will give fruit this season.

My tamarillo is showing some growth like the passies, hopefully they will all survive.

Anna

Thank you. My dogs are the official patrollers in the garden, they watch for gophers, moles or anything like that! Squirrels are not welcome either!

I am arranging my very small yard to fit everything that I got.

Some citrus will be planted on the sides of the front yard, some young trees that can take the cold will be kept in pots till they are stronger (I learn this from Sal and his Italian old timers) and will be moved with the other fruit trees in the garden.

The tropical trees like red guava, red sugar apple, sweet tamarind, sapodilla will be kept in the porch.

Tomatoes will go to their final destination to the tomato garden once the weather stabilizes to warm, it will happen, trust me!

Tomato garden from last season, can fit 30-40 plants

And Anna I don't know what happened to the sugar snaps but this season they are not producing in my garden either.

Silvia

And Anna I don't know what happened to the sugar snaps but this season they are not producing in my garden either.

I think it's been consistently too cold. I'm only getting a handful where usually we'd be picking quarts every other day. The pole beans I started December first are just about done with virtually NO production...just one of those years we'll all want to forget.

Silvia, can you tell me where to get the potato bags??? That looks like a very good way to grow taters.I wish I could grow the sweet potatoes that way but they just won't have it LOL.

Tom

The sugar snap might not be producing too well but the fava beans and maestro peas are. This morning pictures

Fava beans

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Maestro peas

Loquat getting ripe

Camelia

Gardencraze

You have time to prepare to grow your sweet potatoes, you can use a bag or you can use a large plastic container or even a garbage can. If you google sweet potato in a can you can see the videos to give you some ideas.

Silvia

Here is a link that might be useful: potato bags

Thank you Silvia, I have to order those and see how it works for me.
Carmen

Is it too late to plant potatoes? If not too late, what kind would do well? I like the potatoe bag idea, Silvia, some of the reviews at the link you posted state that they mold/mildew. Have you found that to be a problem?

Sharon, I had to read some of the reviews to see what you were talking about.lol

Most of them are good, of course I never go by that but what I experience in my own garden, a lot of different circumstances can change what anybody thinks of the product. Most said aerates well and that is what I think, it breathes better than any other material. I like clay but it is heavy and expensive.

This is the first time that I use the bags, last season I use half whiskey barrels. And from the results that I got from some of the potatoes, I am happy with the results. I have to add that I never had to water, they only get water from the sprinkles 1 time a week or when it rains.

For your zone 10 I think it is too late to start, potatoes like cooler weather.

You are not late for sweets like I told Carmen before, look for bush sweet potato starts, all the varieties are good. And is a great value for your money, once you grow your own you can keep some to start the new season. You never have to buy them again.

Sweet potato bed

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Sweet potato harvest

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Silvia