Winter Gardening 1-7-2012

Back at it...trying to write something every weekend and just use the blog to track initiatives.

Resumed gardening yesterday, fall was so busy with teaching the astronomy class and different weekend commitments that I pretty much abandoned the garden around September 01.  Activities included some new vegetables.

Mysterious Animal Digging

Beets in the East Planter

Cabbage in the West Planter

Broccoli in the Center Planter 

 I also added two loads of our compost to the garden.  One to the tomato area and the other in the box under the pomegranate tree, and purchased and placed a bag of chicken manure in each box.  I probably did not adequately mix the manure into the garden...we'll see.

Other observations include:

1) I have at least three potatoes growing from past potatoes.
2) There are also two or three green onions growing.

Finally, one of my greatest enjoyments is the freshly-squeezed orange juice following our regular Sunday mountain bike ride.