Difficulties surmounted and garden is growing

 Will have a new phone in a few days but managed to get out with my ipad again and take more pictures. The weather is clouding over surprisingly and I think, last I looked, we will have partly cloudy weather leading up to a possible rain day next week or on the weekend.

The radishes have doubled their size in just 24 hours they are actually visible now to the un aided eye. The other bed is slower due to not having as much sun but there were a few that were coming up. 

I'm thinking this potato may be rotting. The center growth is slightly brown and wilting over. I don't remember having good success with potatoes in this bed last time so if this fails, I'll dig it up and put the cauliflower seedlings down. Speaking of digging up, I pulled the other lanky potato and it broke off under the soil. Digging around I didn't find any tiny spudlings so if there's any in there, they won't be coming up until much later. Keeping an eye on that potato though, it definitely has not done as well as the other ones. Duly noted for future reference.

'Drones eye view' of the garden bed and a size shot of those two smaller potatoes. That bed has been an absolute production maker! Good soil, good sun, should probably add in some fertilizer next month if I can get it. I haven't seen any onions coming up yet but those tend to be a little slower. Digging up all those root crops is going to be a major disruption to everything and I will most likely have to replace some of the soil. I've been tucking the peas into the trellis as best I can, they're going everywhere except onto the trellis right now. I used the little tin pot to water the sweet pea seeds I put in a week ago. Still no movement from them as yet.

Cilantro and carrots are kicking butt second to the potatoes but I suspect that the radishes will come up from behind and beat all of them to the harvest.

Some 'down low' shots to give an idea of heights above soil level (and a close up of the ugly gopher proofing I did in the west bed). With the weather the way it is and everything growing it's hard not to take pictures every day because plants are moving so fast. When the radishes start coming up in that west bed I'll take another shot (with my new phone) hopefully for comparison. In theory that bed could use another couple of inches of soil to do better but that gap in the edging needs to be fixed first. 

I was frantic and angry about the gophers when I did that bed, it isn't nearly deep enough nor framed well for what is needed. Couldn't get the corners square enough to add area and the bottom is not level either. It will do for now but hopefully in the near future I would like to try and put a better raised bed frame in there. 

I was going through my old photos from two years ago and as much as I would like to improve on what I have, it has come SO far from what it was when I started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's not my imagination that the jade bush has grown at least a foot or two in as many years. Hoping we (three gardeners) can work together to get that log pile adjusted for another raised bed on that wall. We would all have to pool our money together and get help from the gardener guys to do a bed similar to mine. 

It's a big step, not likely to happen but it's good to keep it as a goal.