For my 100th blog post since rolling out LATE BLOOMER on Earth Day 2012, I debated on what my topic should be. Should I do as usual, and simply report on the day, or should it be more meaningful in some way? I decided to report on the day yesterday, which turned out to be meaningful […]
The queen that didn’t bloom last night is my Nightblooming Cereus, or Selenicereus grandiflorus. The cactus species blooms one night a year, or years, and withers within hours. For some reason, the bud didn’t open. The impossibly intricate, huge white blooms, are protected by long, pale salmon tubes, with sharp points. When the bloom looks […]
My Little Meyer Lemon Tree Update ~ I took Melissa, from Live Love Be Green’s, advice about my little lemon tree, and removed all leaves with mealy bugs. (See “My Little Lemon Tree” for the pests that I found.) I agree it was mealy bug. I disposed of them in the garbage. Then, I mixed […]
We planted several olive trees before I ever started on the vegetable garden. Only two are in the ground, and they both have olives. Naturally, I paid no attention to the variety when they were planted. When one of the potted olive trees grew a single olive, I read up on olives and it seemed […]
My Little Lemon Tree, my so-called “ever-bearing” Meyer lemon tree, has not born a ripe lemon since last November. It had quite a lot of blooms in the spring, but, it’s September, and, though carrying two dozen lemons, the leaves don’t look so well. I recently gave it more iron, organic plant food, alfalfa meal, […]
Summer: it’s not over yet! I just rounded up what was ready to harvest. That big zucchini had been hiding, or it would have been eaten before now. And, I had a volunteer sunflower, my last one this year, appear in my strawberry patch. It’s a little one, but very friendly! Sunflowers make you smile! […]
Celery and a Fig Beetle had my interest today. I just planted celery seedlings in the parkway where my corn was. I read in “Golden Gate Gardening” that celery would like to be planted in pure compost, so I obliged with a whole bag of biodynamic compost between six seedlings. It also needs a lot […]
Today a few raindrops fell. It hasn’t rained since April, so I grabbed my camera. This Japanese melon did not get wet, but I included it because it’s green! This is about all the rain we got before it stopped. Imagine growing a whole summer garden of vegetables with only city water, but that’s what […]
Check out the latest episode of “Late Bloomer.” I go a little mad growing zucchini! Watch here on in high resolution on YouTube. Thanks for watching! Please share! – Kaye
My neighbor, Dennis, told me that if you fail Growing Radishes 101, you might not be cut out for gardening, presumably because radishes are so easy to grow. This is an update to an earlier post “About the Radishes….” Today, since the barrel was choked with tall radish leaves, and since it’s been enough time […]
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