Lemons

3/15/18 Lots of blooms, lots of pollinators.

Pic taken 3/3/18

Pic taken 3/3/18

Lemon tree is blooming and has hundreds of blooms (way too many!) Lemon blooms smell amazing!

Fertilized 3/5/18 w/Jobe's citrus fertizer spikes. Watered extremely well. Pounded in 3 spikes around lemon tree based on diameter of 6.6" (21" trunk circumference). (I used fewer spikes because I really don't want more lemons, and the grapefruit tree is one I want to actually encourage.) Watered in well. Repeat watering in 1 month. Spikes last 3 months.

Grapefruit

3/15/18 Lots of blooms, lots of pollinators.

Pic taken 3/3/18

Pic taken 3/3/18

Grapefruit is blooming and has hundreds of blooms! It smells heavenly out there!

Fertilized 3/5/18 w/Jobe's citrus fertizer spikes. Watered extremely well. Pounded in 5 spikes around grapefruit tree based on diameter of 4.4" (14" trunk circumference). Watered in well. Repeat watering in 1 month. Spikes last 3 months.

Garden overall

3/15/18 Garden doing very well. Had to spray Sevin today just to keep ahead of the bugs. About a week ago sprayed Organicide but not sure if it did any good.

Pic taken 3/15/18

2/22/18 Planted garden. Tomatoes, peppers, onions, carrots, potatoes, cilantro, basil, rosemary, sweet mint.

Pic taken 3/3/18

Tomatoes

3/15/18 Green and vigorous.

3/8/18 Gently tied up stalks to tops of tomato cages. Keeping branches from touching the ground.

Pic taken 3/3/18

Pic taken 3/3/18

2/22/18  Planted 8 tomato plants, all Bonnie Original, the $6.50 size, fairly large, from Lowe's. Instructions: Dig 1-ft hole. Drop in a little fertilizer. Add compost and a little soil. Add plant, fill in dirt. Water.

Peppers

3/15/18 Planted three little plants together, and they're doing great.

Dig 1-ft hole. Drop in a little fertilizer. Add compost and a little soil. Add plant, fill in dirt. Water.

Onions

3/15/18 The original onions are doing great! Planted some more, 4" below the soil and tops are emerging! I'm hoping these will yield bigger onions since they're all the way underground. We'll see.

Pic taken 3/15/18. First batch of onions. These were planted an inch in the ground, with the tops sticking out.

Pic taken 3/15/18. Onions that were planted 4" deep.

Pic taken 3/3/18

Pic taken 3/3/18

On 2/22/18, planted most of 75-set mixed onion bag (from Lowe's) this way: Get site ready with fine, loose soil. Dig in some fertilizer, cover with soil, push little bulbs about 1" into soil, root side down. Keep well watered.

On 3/4/18, planted the rest of the onion sets 4" deep in loose soil, to maybe get snippable green onion tops

Potatoes

Pic taken 3/15/18. This is after hilling with additional 6" soil.

3/15/18 Potatoes doing great! Had to hill them, adding six inches of dirt so potatoes have room to form between plant and top of seed potato. Took two hrs just to rake/sweep up dirt on top of black plastic and dump it on the potatoes. It took about 1/2 of a 5-gal bucket per plant, and then some. After dumping, relocated buried leaves/stems, shook off and watered off dirt, watered potato patch.

Pic taken 3/3/18

2/5/18  Dug ditches for potatoes and other crops. Cut seed potatoes (from Tractor Supply) into 1" to 2" squares. Put on wire rack to dry/scab over. Instructions: Dig 12" ditch. Sprinkle a little fertilizer, then put in some fine, loose soil. Place seed potatoes eyes side up and cover with 4" of soil. Water.

2/15/18 Potatoes are up!

3/5/18 Potatoes are about 8" high. Pushed about 4" of dirt around bottom of potato plants to enable potatoes to form w/o pushing out of soil.