So, I have partially been cooking from my garden minimum 4 times a week. I have started having good beans harvest, my tomatoes are big but haven’t ripened. Arugula and cilantro are growing like weed while cucumber vines have taken over rest of my vegetable patch. Most of the snap peas gets snapped up by my kids everyday. And the rest goes in to my husband’s salad lunch.
I was having trouble with cucumber. They were flowering abundantly but there was no fruit till now. So I kind of let rest of the red radishes and bok choy go to seed hoping that the flowers will attract the bees and butterflies. Else I would been forced to pollinate cucumber by hand. My vegetable patch is one overgrown mess right now. So any flower in one plant attracts bees to all of them. Well it paid off. I am finally starting to see cucumber.
I tried growing lettuce from left over stump and looks like it is working. This is first time for me. It was pretty simple too. I will hopefully be growing more lettuce from stumps soon. Well anyway this is what I did, I cut my lettuce about inch from stump. Put the stump in water for 3 days until I saw leaves trying to come up then planted it in partial shade.
I am also trying to grow some apricot and cherry from seed. I am trying the refrigerator method for that. I have kept my seeds in refrigerator wrapped up in wet tissue for past one month. Now I am going to plant them, some in pot and some directly in soil. Hopefully I will have some results soon.
As u can see from the pics, I follow the method of companion gardening. Only I don’t plant flowers. I mostly combine greens and herbs with vegetables. I grow tomatoes, peas, cucumber very close. Infact my peas are supported by tomato cages. It works very well. I let cucumber flow on the ground. And under the shade of these plants I planted my colocasia, though initial I wasn’t expecting much, it has flourished well. I have mostly mixed my green beans with cilantro and arugula. They seem to be doing very well.
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