In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen
We returned two days ago from a visit with our son’s family in the Seattle area and found that strawberry guava season had just commenced. Some of the early drops were only compost worthy but gathering the best, picking some and shaking the tree yielded four pounds. More on strawberry guavas as the season proceeds. Search ediblegardens52 + strawberry guavas now if you’re interested.
On my first day home I picked these tomatoes. The striped ones are Chocolate Lightning Dwarfs and the other three Rosella Purple Dwarfs. And of course, my Black Cherry “explosion” tomatoes. I often harvest the larger tomatoes a day or two ahead of being fully ripe, hastening the remaining tomatoes, in theory. They seem to color up nicely in the kitchen.
The focus is forward to the fall garden now even as summer crops finish. I removed the two zucchini plants which looked decent but had stopped producing sizable fruit. The pole green beans are setting seed and my various beans grown for drying have more brown pods. Bell peppers enlarge and some show some progression to red.
The Jacaranda and Premium Crop broccoli seedlings grew well during my week away. The flea beetles found them as usual so hoping the beneficial insect predators will find them. Last fall I did a deep dive into Flea Beetles. Read more if they plague your brassicas.
This week I’ll prepare several planting beds and plant three varieties of cauliflower for starts. I’m without lettuce now so I’ll likely do a few varieties in six packs and some in the ground. I’m sounding quite ambitious. We’ll see what actually is accomplished.
My Red Queen Lime zinnias grow well with these warm days and I never tire of the small bouquets.
Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, it’s dahlia season. Even the most pedestrian gardens seem to sport a few plants. The bouquet came from the Edmonds Farmers’ Market where there were so many dahlia bouquets to choose from.
Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I begin soon to sow seeds for the cool season garden. Then head today to Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.
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