Garden Update : new plants to experiment with

Well, we're about 6 months into our urban gardening experiment, or the "sargeant homestead" as I like to call it. I think we've had some great success our first venture. The cherry tomato provided no less than 300 tomatoes throughout the summer. The italian kale, swiss chard, thai basil and sweet basil, garlic chives, broccoli, german chamomile, zucchini, rosemary, peppermint, cabernet grape vine, red sails lettuce, arugula, speckled romaine, spinach, cilantro, serrano pepper, pepper, floral gem pepper, and jalpeno all grew (and tasted!) remarkably well.

The only real problem children were the green onions (new crop doing better), big boy and champion tomatoes (didnt grow at all ... crowded growing space?), and the golden bell pepper (the plant looks healthy but the peppers are small and usually get destroyed by bugs :(.

Not bad for the patch of crab grass below our front windows. Next step ... ask my landlord to remove some (or all :) of the 600+ square feet of grass in our yard.

See below the photos for more specific info.

Starting out in the pots. Super seedling power!

Container sunflowers, doing well, the first batch were eaten (birds?)

Red speckled romaine lettuce ... mmmmmmmmmm.

Leanne building a trellis out of old raffia and left over canvas bars. For the sweet peas and climbing peas.

Bum Cat!!! I want to keep him, but Mickey loses his marbles when he comes by. He can be our "garden kitty"

Grape vine (notice how its changed since our previous postings)

Cherry tomato seedling ... from seed! The flowers mean the tomatoes are coming soon :)

Swiss card in recycled container, from seed

Thai basil. The purple flowers are quite cool and the bees love them, but the flowers come when the plant matures, so not much time left for grandpa basil

mmmm ... broccoli !!

Forgot what these are. No marigolds for sure so I hope the keep the bad bugs away

Green onions from seed. Third time is a charm! I think they'll take

Serrano on the left, cherry tomato and basil on the right

Two recently installed raised beds. Zucchini, swiss chard, and kale

Leannes trellis and peas. Whut whut!

Some creepy little mutants I found while digging up old plants. I looked them up online and found them to be white grubs ... which I guess are pretty destructive to roots. So these bad boys got evicted and the others will have to be eaten by nematodes (yet to be introduced to my soil).