Maybelline's Garden

Red Flam Grapes - 2019 The best/most productive crop in the garden for 2019 has been the Red Flame grapes. The quantity & quality ha...

Soaking the garden dirt off the fresh carrots and beets that were harvested this morning.  Everything was hosed off; but there's some le...

Today would have been a perfect beach like day IF it was July.  However, it’s February in Bakersfield.  I need some cold weather to kill the...

There is red in the garden. Hummingbird / Bee Feeder   Merlot Lettuce   Strawberries   Cimmaron Romaine Lettuce   Borlotto Solis...

Fall planting is almost complete.  I’m a bit late but I hope to see some results.  As expected, the radishes are up.  The radishes pictured...

Moving further to the east… This bed still has a few items leftover from fall.  There were peas on the far left.  Those are long gone.  Ne...

In the last post I highlighted the western most raised bed .  Now let’s move east.  There are still onions developing.  They were planted on...

Here’s a few things that have been going on in the garden. March 6, 2010 – The tomato seeds sprouted.  They were planted, along with pepp...

Some varmint is skeltonizing my cabbage!  The evidence/damage isn’t overwhelming.  Just a few outer leaves on a few heads.  Most all of the ...

There was a nice harvest today.  Romaine and Bibb lettuce was thinned.  The heads were used to make a salad.  The beets were also thinned. ...