Backyard Garden Week 6

Our square foot garden after about 6 weeks of growth.

Here's a close-up of the squash.

The banana pepper plants are starting to bear peppers.

Backyard Garden - Week 5

Here's an updated picture of our backyard garden. I'm not sure the scare crow is having a practical effect, but Linda seems to like it.



The squash and peppers are prospering and the broccoli, collards, and cauliflower have grown significantly. The coconut coir mulch, perilite, compost, and worm castings has proven to be a very viable growing mixture.

We've survived our first pest attack. We added some fly strips and used a minimal amount of OMRI listed Organicide on some of the individual plant leaves, but all appears to be well now.

Sunshine Bouquet

This picture captures everything I like about Florida - sunshine, warm weather, scenery. When other areas of the country are experiencing 10 degree temperatures, ice, and snow; I can take pictures of beautiful flowers (in the middle of December).