My first day of vacation

Pasadena Community Garden Info/Event Day

I must have been really busy! I have not posted in months... My job was so hectic and crazy this year. My first day of vacation was spent in the garden transplanting 3 sad looking blueberry bushes. My neighbor Russ was there to keep me from working too hard. The tomatoes are looking okay. There is a brown spot on my one of my stems. My soybeans are great and so are the parsley plants. My zucchini is producing at least one nice size fruit every 4 days and I have two different varieties growing right now. The tomatillos have to be sprayed with pyrethrum or something like that. I see the beetles munching away and profusely mating.The peppers are producing. I mean I have my borage going crazy. The flowers are tasty. I tried to give them away but no one wants such a gigantic plant. It gets to be huge. The leaves take over. My lacinato kale is lush. I took two out. I pulled out all the collards, trimmed the salvia, relocated the lemon verbena, gave away 3 rosemary plants, composted all the lettuce, got a cabbage in return, the other kale is finally looking like it can be harvested. I think I want to take out the strawberry plants. The slugs and snails are really getting on my nerves. At least at school, I don't have to deal with all the slime. If I have to use even natural pesticide to keep a plant going after I have used all the companion planting techniques then I think I need to rethink about growing it.

My SUNGOLD tomatoes.