May is an interesting time in my garden . While cold-blooded climes have beds bursting with lettuce and carrot and radishes , my fair atmospheric condition vegetable garden seat nearly empty , waiting for seedlings to gointhe flat coat or emergeoutof the primer coat .
Gardening in Los Angeles , it ’s a blessing that our seasons are so long , with fall and wintertime veg thriving outside from October through April . But by the time the last leafy green has bolt out , it ’s already too warm to implant a typical leap veggie , yet still too cool for summertime crops to fully flourish .
Despite my food garden being a mishmash of leftover crops , May is a beautiful metre to be outdoors . Everything that was torpid is alive again .
Growing by the entry gate , the deciduous grapevine that I purchased a few month ago is no longer looking like a wintry sprig .
My wintertime savoury , lemon thyme , and tricolor salvia are all blooming .
My chocolate mint is happy .
The first infant fig are starting to emerge .
My Vietnamese herbaceous plant bed , which has now become an intoxicatingly fragranttía tôforest . This dark-green - foliage and purple - leaf herb is also known as perilla or shiso . Somewhere in there also stand a Vietnamese Coriandrum sativum and Vietnamese plenty , which I ’ll eventually grok out at the oddment of the time of year . Last year , when my two ( yes , only two!)tía tôplants flowered , I wondered what would happen if I rent them reseed freely on their own . Well , 100 of plants afterwards , now I know .
A view of the upper and main levels of my veg garden . Pictured are the leftover of winter , with onion and garlic shortly to mature , and the last nous of radicchio bolting .
A eyeshot from the other side . To the left , Perpetual spinach chard and komatsuna have been constitute in their fresh bottom . French marigolds are disperse throughout the garden to deter pests , and my other beneficials at the top of the picture , aniseed Hyssopus officinalis and tansy , are growing like crazy .
The incredibly lush Victoria rhubarb plant is much break out of its 4×8 garden box ! This was institute by the previous householder and I ’m opine it ’s a couple years old . I see a long summer ahead with rhubarb jam , rhubarb syrup , and rhubarb crisp . Yum .
It might vocalise strange , but I hump the scent of finished compost being raked over the garden . It ’s earthy , fresh , and full of life .
The first edamame seedling has sprouted . When shake - fry with garlic and Chile , it ’s my preferent beer munchie .
A gorgeous school principal of Purple of Romagna artichoke . I ca n’t take myself to plunk it off and eat it .
Moving further down the hill to my mid - even garden , mylemongrassis still look as wild as ever . Hopefully I can start reap it this summer !
Another bunch of banana in bloom . With my four banana Tree , I recollect I get banana nearly year - pear-shaped .
A bed of bunching onions and leek ready for crop .
Down in the depressed garden , the Eureka stinker are ripening . Ooh , my sass just puckered thinking about their tartness !
And right smart down at the bottom of the hill , pussyfoot spurge and other persistent mourning band are taking over my lowly one thousand . Eeek . Once this horizontal surface is cleaned up and build out , it will finally have an out-of-door shot space for my fiancé , a lensman . I ’m also trying to decide on the what s , where s and how s of putting in a few more industrial plant and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to make this distance more productive … it ’s definitely a work in progress ! ( But then are n’t all gardens ? ! )
