Wednesday, December 28, 2011

What is growing now- front!

Brice has a steady flow of broccoli making it to our table, with the mass of the brussel sprouts to be ready this week. Cauliflower is about the size of a baseball, and then the purple head cauliflower is a little bigger and is looking beautiful. Hopefully we don't have real hard frost and they should make it and produce until time for spring planting. (spring & summer seeds are already started indoors, he's got about 100 seeds going and growing waiting for their perfect weather to go outside)
The artichokes we planted last summer in the front area are over three feet tall and becoming nice hedges dividing the grass area with the front garden. They should keep growing all through summer.
Trees are olive, plum, and orange. Will add another plum and orange sometime next couple years.
The thornless blackberry vines are on year number three and growing long and still thornless. Somehow I thought the nursery was lying and a thornless blackberry didn't exist. But, yep they do. Pictures to follow.

What is growing now- back gardens

Our brussel sprouts are the only producing backyard veg as of now. Artichokes have completely gone down to stump and back to two feet tall in a matter of months.
Fruit Trees are pruned growing bigger and wanting to produce me some more delicious fresh fruit! Trees now; cherry, almond, apricot, pear, white peach, and pomegranate occupy the back and will get a couple more in a month or so. We need to add a cherry pollinator and I want a nectarine tree. The asparagus is cut down to nothing also. Hoping for a good spring & summer there's lots waiting to grow!