Pinepig's Virtual Garden

It didn't rain today so I got out for a couple hours to wander around the saturated garden and try to shift some of the pots back after the new fence went in. I can't shift the stuff on the lawn yet, the lawn is completely soaked and already churned up from me having to go out and move the pots away the first time. I've tried to seed the lawn but the seeds I put in last weekend aren't taking in 2 of the big areas and I don't want to churn it up even more.

I did shift things around outside the backdoor, moved 3 camellias onto the ledge by the bbq, moved the dwarf nectarine and peach into opposite corners of that area. The nectarine now sits where the larger 'dwarf' peach was, which will shift to a back corner so it can spread a little more (once the lawn dries a bit more). I also shifted the old tomato pots back to their old spot. 1 has miner's lettuce (and I've got tiny little miner's lettuce sprouts!), 2 (3?) have cover crops in them, one has rainbow chard I planted last weekend. I shifted the amber carrots bin that never seemed to have grown so I replanted some more seeds today, hopefully they'll go. I'm hit and miss with carrot growing and I wonder if it's either how I sow them (too deep?), slugs, or that I'm too impatient and they need longer.

I also planted some more cauliflower today: 4 of the year-round variety and 5 of the snowball. The approx 7 or 8 snowball caulis that I rescued from the broken growbag are still going well. I lost 1 or 2, but the remaining 7 or 8 are fine.

I pulled up the solitary jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus) plant last weekend and cut it up and ate (most of it, I forgot about the rest in the back of the fridge & don't know if it's any good anymore). It wasn't as sweet as I remembered, probably growing conditions, but other than that I loved it and want to plant another one or 2 next spring.

Here are some pictures of the process!

Here's the plant:



The edible part, the root, mostly uncovered. All vegetation above the top of the soil is poisonous.



Uncovered:





And washed:



Here's what it looks like when you start to peel it. The skin is pretty easy to peel, usually you start it with a knife and peel it off in strips.



I diced it up and squeezed some fresh lime from the garden into it. It was nice on it's own, and it would have been even better in a salad with Ranch dressing :) (Next year!!).