Here I am, mid-October and ready for my winter vegetable seeds to go into the ground.
Keep in mind I am planting based on what grows well in Southern California's climate and following the advice of Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening book.
Before planting I needed something to loosen up the soil and mix in fertilizers. I found a Garden Tiller at Home Depot that was perfect for the job! Not only was this tool great for getting my soil ready for seeds, but it was perfect for grabbing and sifting up small rocks that I decided to use as an outline for my first planting area.
I spent a considerable amount of time making the soil soft so that I would not need an above ground bed of earth. In my prior blog post I mentioned testing my soil type and PH and both indicated I had perfect earth for planting.
Just to be sure I had the best soil in the garden I scooped the top soil up from the the ground around the garden and shoveled it into my designated planting area.
I took a trip to City Farmer's Nursery in San Diego to purchase my winter vegetable seeds. They happened to have Asparagus already growing in pots so I opted to buy them that way instead. I had a budget of $25 for this part of the project and I stayed under that.
3 pots of Organic Asparagus
1 pack Organic Broccoli Seeds
1 pack Organic Brussels Sprouts Seeds
1 pack Organic Carrot Seeds
1 pack Organic Beet Seeds
3 Cloves of Organic Elephant Garlic
Next - I Googled videos of how to plant each type of seed. And here they are:
Then I went ahead and planted all my seeds. That process was too dirty to use my camera phone, but here is the finished product.
I moved forward with this one garden prior to installing my drip irrigation system.
It should not be too hard to water every day. But as I expand I plan to get that in place.
Next up:
Planting a spice garden indoors to transfer to outdoors in the Spring.
Blueberries
Dwarf Fig Tree
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