A small harvest of onions another shift in weather

 It was clearing off by noon today, though it was patchy, streaky clouds an hour later. Still more sun than clouds which is fine. It is what it is as they say and not much to be done about it. Not too many pictures today, not many flowers until I go on my walk in the afternoon but here's some progress photos of the garden beds.

I suspect none of the tomatoes are going to get much bigger which is disappointing and good at the same time. I was expecting 'monster' four foot plants but apparently not to be with the Romas. As dry as it looks, I'll delay watering until the evening. Still not sign of the other radishes coming up. Oh and I decided to dump the rest of the romaine that I had in the fridge including the root base. Just wasn't going to wait that long for it and not have anywhere to put it.

 

I had to step way back to get a good shot of the raised bed that includes the leaning tower of Coriander. The tomatoes in this bed are about the same size as the ones in the ground (other than the one on the trellis).  

I decided to pull the largest of the onions and got a nice handful as good as any bunch I've gotten in the store. The ones that are left in the raised bed are getting too much shade and they are at least two weeks behind the ones I pulled. Seriously good green onions, a do again crop for sure and will likely plant a lot more in succession. But where?!

I'm trying to plan the next season (fall/winter) plants and on the list are; potatoes, onions, lettuce, radish, carrots, more cilantro and that's all I can remember. Peas were easy to grow but I have a small baggie of them in the fridge right now and ... honestly I don't die for peas. Same with beans, fun to grow but why waste room in a garden for something I won't 100% eat? I would plant Sweet Peas for the flowers instead absolutely! Spinach and chard are not high on my list of greens either.

So it's a rather pedestrian garden sticking with what I'll eat: Lettuce, potatoes, carrots, radishes, onions and garlic for the winter and spring. As I said, when the three tomatoes in the north bed are done I'm looking for a zucchini plant to put there for mid-summer. I really want peppers but that was a fail the way I did it. Might have to try direct sow.

When you see charts for square foot gardening a lot of times they have everything really close. They suggest 1 tomato per square foot (on center). Doesn't say what kind just one per square foot. That's not one every foot, one in a square foot. So technically, to give them enough room you plant every other foot. Ideal spacing for roma is 2 feet on center. Which is close to what I've planted and roughly follows the square foot gardening method. I have the three in the north bed staggered rather than a straight row so there's a bit more room for them and for anything else I wanted to plant. 

When you have limited space, you do what you can to maximize it.