How does our Garden Grow?

Again, this entry is more about the pictures. Here are some of how our garden looks now. It might not be super easy to see, in the small picture, but on the left is our row of Sunflowers, all doing very well. We may cut a few of them and test how they sell down in the market of Las Palmas. In the foreground is a purple Gladiola, they are doing ok, a beetle larva called "gallina ciega" ate some of the roots, and caused some mortality in these.

Gladiolas are well known in the markets here, but they do not have a wide variety of colors. So, we are expanding that a bit. Past the Gladiola are the summer squashes and zucchini. We brought 3 colors of each. Strangely enough, it seems like the best producer as well as most resistant to the "plagas" (any pest, fungus, virus, ect...) is the yellow variety of both zucchini and summer squash. The picture on the right shows our garden from the bottom along with some of the new beds we are preparing for more seeds like asian veggies, eggplant, and different califlowers.

We are growing all of these without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Might as well learn how they fair under this condition, no real need to introduce yet another crop that requires lots of expensive management. We do use the "worm juice" as a folliar fertilizer, and the "lombricompost" that our group here is producing to sell to organic farmers. Also, I have occaisionally used a "plagucida" made of garlic, hot chile, onion, and soap. To the left there, you can see some of our products, along with our industrious salesmen!