First tomatoes ready to pick (6 December).
Between a small cactus and tarragon, a brief appearance of volunteer mushrooms.
Tomatoes and mushrooms
Tag: garden
Sometimes it happens
I picked up a fallen avocado, bounced it once in my hand, and said “396 grams.”
And then…
First paltas
Avocado season has officially begun! (The little on one the right dropped off the tree a few days ago. It doesn’t count 😉
Non compost compost
My favorite gardening technique is letting things plant themselves…
These little squash plants (what kind, who knows) are growing from my “compost” (noun) for a transplanted palm that didn’t in fact compost (verb).
Meanwhile, my recent re-jiggering of my non-composting compost has resulted in another little accidental garden. (I have no idea what that big-leaf plant in the background is, but it’s obviously happy and it’s not bothering me.)
Closer view of the non-garden “garden.”
State of the fruit trees
Lemons: going bonkers as usual
Oranges: from fewer than a dozen to date, this looks like it may be the breakout year
Avocados: after a barren year, indications are we can again anticipate hundreds this season.
Disappearing chives
We’ve always, it seems, had garlic chives In this planter, which we largely ignored. Until this year. And now something else has decided to eat them. Ants? Other critters? No clues I can find as to what it may be.
Finally!
After an incredible harvest of avocados (paltas) during which on some days I felt, Shit, I have to eat avocado again, a season with zero – nada – zilch. But aha! Today for the first time i see evidence that we will have another harvest!
A volunteer mushroom
Flipping back the lid to my little worm composting setup revealed a mushroom that had grown inside, upside down.
Lemons!
Big lemons this year.
The last palta
I blogged about the last avocado on the “big” tree a short while ago. Seeing the new red leaves sprouting, we both got the feeling that the “little” tree was ready to be fully harvested, so today I scampered up the ladder and removed the last dozen or so,none of which is particularly visually appealing.
And I find this quite interesting: the last avocado (because I left it there) has been eaten on the limb, the first time (happily) we’ve seen this.
Likewise, as with almost every day the past few weeks, there was another half-eaten on the ground. I left that in place as well, for the critter/s to continue their end-of-season feast.