Cyde Swype's Frontyard garden

Created on Sunday, 10 Aug 08

Finally posting my first garden here. It’s a “mel’s mix” of 30% vermiculite/perlite, 30% peat moss and 40% compost. It’s got a little native soil mixed in. It’s about 6 feet by 3 feet, raised about 8 inches and bounded by cynderblocks.on all sides. Little clover and other wild plants are growing in the cynderblock cavities but plan to plant strawberries and other small plants next year. Three lines of drip irrigation run down the length of the bed right now. Haven’t installed all the drippers. Once we reach fall and I rip out all the tomatoes, I’ll lay the drip lines out completely and install the remaining drippers.

The bed doesn’t get sun until about 11am due to a very very large ficus at the corner of the lot. Need to trim that way back at some point. Everything just grows a little slower and leans a bit more to catch the sunset.

Organic Garden

Garden Type: Frontyard | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Potting Mix

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Day 121

Common Bean 'Blue Lake'

Phaseolus vulgaris

something snatched a few bites out of the seed leaves, probably gra...

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Day 122

Nasturtium

Tropaeolum majus

These guys popped up from a previous planting...either these were l...

Planted on 02 Aug 08
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Day 147

cherimoya

Annona cherimola

dropped a few leaves and started dying back a bit from drying out i...

Planted on 08 Jul 08
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Day 161

loquat

Eriobotrya japonica

fried out pretty bad before putting him on a drip. now he's got ne...

Planted on 24 Jun 08
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Day 161

white sapote

Casimiroa edulis

Planted on 24 Jun 08
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Day 167

pimento

Capsicum annuum

Planted on 18 Jun 08
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Day 168

feijoa

Feijoa sellowiana

black spots on the leaves that usually rub off...possible fungus? ...

Planted on 17 Jun 08
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Day 183

broccoli

Brassica oleracea var. italica

in my wine barrel planter along with my not-so-happy jalpeno (had a...

Planted on 02 Jun 08
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Day 200

pomegranate

Punica granatum

got this from QBG during a weeding work day. it was growing from t...

Planted on 16 May 08
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Day 202

jalepeno

Capsicum annuum

Planted on 14 May 08
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Day 267

El Dorado Miniature Peach

Prunus persica

Planted on 10 Mar 08
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Day 274

Fig

Ficus carica

grew this guy from a cutting at the CRFG scion exchange. this is m...

Planted on 03 Mar 08
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Day 294

Rocket 'Sativa'

Eruca sativa

this sucker went to seed in a big way. i've let it tangle up my ga...

Planted on 12 Feb 08
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Day 303

Cucumber 'Straight Eight'

Cucumis sativus

pretty late start for this guy, but hey...it's san diego. let's se...

Planted on 03 Feb 08
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Day 322

jujube

Ziziphus zizyphus

Planted on 15 Jan 08
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Tomato 'OTV Brandywine'

Solanum lycopersicum

tastiest tomatoes evar!
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El Dorado Miniature Peach

not sure if he likes the soil he's in yet...also think i'm not givi...
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