Tomatoes, peppers & squash	Compost area in past

 

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The Wall Garden is the area on the other side of the Flower Garden wall. This area is watered by runoff from one of the gutters at the rear of the house when it rains. Otherwise it must be watered by water from the house by hand.

In the past the compost bin was kept as well as cuttings from the plants across the wall. There is also an old unknown variety of peach that was planted there with a seedling from a pit by the previous owners. (The compost is now out in the area where I used to keep my bees.)

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2024

Planted tomatoes, Japanese eggplants, shito and sweet yelow peppers and bush beans on May 27th. Orange pepper plants were also planted. The cherry tomatoes began producing on July 22. There were larger tomatoes, but non had ripened by that time. Shitos had produced many peppers by July 15th and some of the larger peppers were producing as well. None of the beans did well at all!

2023

I transplanted 24 tomatos, 6 each of Sungold cherry, Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye slicing and Stupice slicing seedlings from the sunroom to the Wall Garden on June 14. Also 2 Sweet Banana Peppers from Lowes, zuchinni and yellow squash were planted there a week ago. The tomato plants are doing well as well as the new eggplants. Something ate all of the squash plants and I have pulled up all of the shishito peppers that I started as seeds in the sunroom because they were not thriving. All that are left are the eggplants and tomatoes, which seem to enjoy the heat with the water that I am able to give them. There was no monsoon this summer so the plants had to be hand watered. Removed all of the tomatoes, eggplants and peppers by the beginning of September. Temperatures got into the high 90's this summer which is very unusual.

2022

The wall garden veggetable planters were not planted this year. The Golden Raintree seemed to thrive and the peach tree continued to grow well. The wall was restuccoed, so some of the peach tree was pruned.

2021

The small wall garden was completely re-done. A Golden Raintree was planted next to the wall and a rock barrier was added to the front of the old peach tree to keep in the water. In May we planted four Sungold tomatoes, four Super Sweet 100 tomatoes, four Better Bush tomatoes, four Galine eggplants and 8 Sweet banana peppers in the raised beds in the Wall garden that we purchased from Agua Fria Nursery.

By August the tomatoes, zucchini and banana peppers were all producing. The eggplant had small fruit and flowers.

2020

In April I planted a variety of greens seeds in the "greens garden" furrow that I used last year. These seeds were a mixture of kale, collards, pac choi, totsoi, chard, spinach and brocolli raab.

2019

I decided to use part of the Wall Garden to grow various greens from seeds that were saved from years past. They were grown in a furrow where the tomatoes, peppers and squash had been grown. Most of the seeds from the previous years germinated and we cut greens from that area into the fall.