Brrr

I wasn't paying attention to the weather lately and my tomatoes, peppers and eggplants did not survive the cold temperatures. Usually I cover these plants with blankets when it gets cold.

Not to worry, though. My carrots, turnips, onions and cabbage are doing great and love this season!

In two weeks I will be starting my spring seeds indoors, and I am looking forward to it!

Micro-tom, cherry tomato, jalapeno harvest:


Salsa!


My boyfriend got me a food processor for Christmas, and I used it to make the salsa!
:-)

Merry Christmas!

Our lawncare guy gave us a nice poinsettia for the holidays. :-)

Outdoor garden

Everything is doing quite well outside. I haven't been able to go outside as much as I'd like because it has been busy due to traveling and the holidays. When I went out there I was delightfully surprised that the turnips and cabbage are thriving. Also the roma tomatoes are doing very well and there are a lot of flowers on the eggplant plants. I even have carrots!

turnip and cabbage

carrot

Turnip

Trees in airports

On a recent trip, I admired the gorgeous Christmas trees in airports, and I wanted to share with all of you.

Orlando airport

Charlotte airport

Yes, those are real poinsettias in pots, arranged to form a tree!  How cool!

O Christmas tree

Finally got the tree! 

Papaya tree

A coworker gave me this papaya tree which is doing quite well near the Aerogarden lights.

Cherry tomatoes

Jalapenos

One day I looked in the AeroGarden and was excited to see these!

Back in business!

Ok, I think I got the photo storage quota issue resolved.   Sooo... check out the micro-toms!

Pictures

I have been having some problems with the website, and I am unable to add any photos at this time.  I believe it is a storage quota issue, but it's unclear where I have to go to free up space.  I have emailed Google for help with fixing the issue.

Sorry for the delay in posts.  Stay tuned!

Happy Thanksgiving!

A pic of a pumpkin I sculpted in 2005

Peppers outside

Here's a green bell pepper from the raised bed.
Growth rate is pretty slow in the fall for produce.

Another bell pepper plant that was given to me by a
coworker.  It's doing ok!

Bachelor's buttons

The tips of the bachelor's button leaves are silvery, fuzzy, and curly - maybe even wilted looking - I wonder if this is normal since this is my first go-around with bachelor's buttons.  It could also be a disease.

If you guys know why this is happening, please comment below.

I recently did a water change in the Aerogarden in hopes of improving these leaves.

Upside-down tomato

The spring upside-down tomato had very high yields!!  Remember, I didn't use the seed packet that came with it.  I used Burpee cherry tomato seeds.

This upside-down tomato, which I planted in September, has been growing slowly and I thought I may have to retire it soon.

But what's this??  Flowers?!

They ARE flowers!  This might make some tomatoes
after all. 

I took it inside for a day or so to protect it from temps in the low 40's.  Right after that was when I saw the flowers.  I wonder if the inside environment/darkness in the garge triggered it to flower?  Hmm..

The one in the raised bed is doing ok - no flowers yet
though.  It might not produce for this fall season.

In other news, the agave azul is doing nicely.
(Like the new privacy fence?)

And two of the azaleas from last year are still going, but
their growth rate is very slow.

November blossoms

Miniature rose

Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea.  Looks Christmasy

Marigold - the seeds were a gift from two little girls
in the family

Marigolds

A poinsettia from last year, carelessly planted in regular
sand.  It has thrived all year, even in the most extreme
heat.  Now it's turning red again for Christmas.

Microtoms / Aerogarden 2

Orlando code enforcement on gardens

So this guy who keeps a vegetable garden is being forced to dig it up due to "code enforcement" who claims that he does not have enough groundcover in his yard. The guy offered to put up a fence, and was told that won't suffice, he needs to remove the garden.

Here's the petition that will help the guy out if he gets enough signatures:
http://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-orlando-florida-stop-digging-up-our-vegetable-gardens

Whole story here:
http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2012/11/13/city_of_orlando_says.html

Cherry Tomatoes/Aerogarden 1

The first red tomato

October harvests

All that vine for that tiny sweet potato?!

The sweet potatoes were planted in Spring.  Not a very good yield.  Alot of them were very small, so I just peeled them all, boiled them, then added butter & cinnamon.

Roma tomatoes.  They fall off the plant by themselves
because they get heavy