Vegetables in spring 2010

This year, we had above average rain. Which means, the garden was filled with vegetables -

Green peas

Shelled by my 5 year old daughter. She absolutely loves them
















Fava beans-
This year, the extra rain has been a blessing for these beans
















More fava beans -
















I mix flowers and vegetables in the garden.
Snapdragon peeking through fava beans.















Blue Bell
















Cauliflowers
Grown from seeds, this cauliflower(snow white) is now ready for harvest -
















More cauliflowers are hidden behind the fava "hedge" -
















Turnips
Surprisingly, my turnips are very mild in taste but the daikons taste like like wasabi.






























Turnips are ready to pick.
















More greens
Cilantro and red long radishes















Leeks grown from seeds that I saved last year from a leek in my garden. I transplanted several of them. These are my project for next week.
















My nursery
Seedlings purchased from home Depot along with the ones I grew from seeds. These plants will be incubated in my nursery until they are mature enough to survive slugs/snails

Fruits

Orange
I planted this orange about 7 years ago. It has been producing pretty much from the second year in an exponential rate - 2, 5, 10, 20.




This year, I had 100 or more decent size oranges and the taste was just amazing.



I picked them all up to allow the plant focus its energy on the new flowers. The plant looks very different but in a few months, the new oranges will be visible.



Fig


Berries
Bought 2 blueberry plants from Costco. Looks like one of them will be setting fruits


This raspberry was planted about 2 months ago. It is showing very strong growth and is about to bloom. I can see myself busy trimming this from next year onwards


I wish I could say the same thing about this blackberry. It is rather sorry looking but nevertheless, its growing.


Pomello
I planted this last summer. Its hidden behind the cauliflower patch but doing fine. I can see new growth starting on them


Plum tree in bloom