It's officially fall (slight chill in the air, never mind that it's projected to be 80 degrees on Friday) and it rained two times in the last week, so this is a big garden transition time. The tomatoes have been ripped out and I'm planting vegetables for the "cold" season.
The picture above is a couple weeks old, but things look pretty much the same on that side. The column of green in the foreground on the left is the remaining Thai basil. I'm pulling those out as I use them now, instead of just clipping off some of the leaves for them to grow back. In the upper left hand corner, there's the quinoa (yellow stems) and rosemary. The quinoa buds are flowering and turning yellow. I'm not sure when to harvest, but it looks like maybe there will be a half a cup... we'll see. The spiky green bits in the back are nebuka green onions that I planted maybe 7 months ago. They don't grow super fast, but I don't eat green onions that fast either, so it works. The maroon horizontal stripe are two fairly large coleus plants. I'm not sure if they really like living there, since they are turning yellow. Maybe I need to lay off on the watering. I'm tempted to dig them up and plant garlic.
The next stripe, left to right, is variegated lettuce, purple kale and sorrel. Finally, in the foreground, left to right, there is more kale, a tiny hollyhock, flat leaf parsley, and a pot of thyme.
In the unpictured portion of the garden, I just planted a lettuce mix, mizuna, beets and peas. The beets didn't really germinate that well, maybe about 3 plants for at least 20 seeds. That seems lame, but comparable to the fava beans where I'm 2 for 10. What's the deal, lazy germinators??
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