On January 26, 2014, the southern end of the bed was filled with brassicas: collards, broccoli, red russian kale, and winter kale. The curve between the bottom and middle of the S didn't have anything growing in it.
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By February 24, 2014, I had added lettuce somewhere in the bed. In the photo, I can just make out the top of a plant tag, and I'm pretty sure my first attempt at lettuce involved a store-bought transplant.
Also by the mustard, some voracious creatures had eaten almost an entire young beet plant.
On March 6, 2014, I put a 'Black Krim' tomato, along with three other tomato transplants, in the S bed.
On March 8, 2014, or shortly before, I added more garden plants to the S Bed:
- 'Black Cherry' tomato
- 'Black Krim' tomato
- 'Bloody Butcher' tomato
- 'Hot Banana' pepper
- 'Serrano del Sol' hot pepper
- 'California Wonder' bell pepper
- a single onion plant
- 'Pot Black' eggplant
- 'Black Beauty' eggplant
- Sweet Basil
On April 6, 2014, only one of the tomato plants had tomatoes.
On the same day, one of the pepper plants had flowers and the beginnings of some peppers.
Four of the brassicas had bolted, going to flower and eventually producing seeds.
On April 18, 2014, this tomato plant had several young tomatoes.
On May 10, 2014, a watermelon seedling was growing somewhere in the S bed.
By May 22, 2014, the tomato plants had a lot of unripe tomatoes.
Here's a view of the S bed on May 23, 2014:
On May 24, some small beets had grown in the S bed, one of which had a strange shape.
And the few strawberry plants I transplanted there produced a few strawberries. This plant had the small beginnings of a strawberry on May 24.
On October 19, 2014, the southern part of the S bed (the bottom of the S) was growing beans and collards.
In the center of the S, a weak tomato plant was in a cage, and I planted chard seeds in the area demarcated with cane sticks..
On the same day, the northern section of the bed (the top of the S) was planted with collards. Some of them were pulled up in the early summer of 2017 because they were heavily damaged by harlequin bugs, but a few of the healthier ones were left. I already had far more collards than I needed, so it made sense to remove some of them.
On November 2, 2014, the S Bed still had peppers, a tomato plant, and greens growing, and the east keyhole bed was still producing okra.
On January 24, 2015, the S Bed looked a lot like it did in the previous November, except the greens were bigger.
On February 1, 2015, the "Graffiti" cauliflower and Romanesco broccoli both had flower heads, and they also had fusarium wilt.
The same day, I tried to slow down the fusarium by removing the leaves that had it.
The S Bed also had chard, beets and Brussels sprouts growing in the bottom curve of the S.
[More to come here...]
This photo shows the S Bed and the I Bed on February 28, 2016, when I was just starting the new garden configuration.
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- A lot of collards
- Leftover broccoli whose flower heads has already been harvested
- Mustard
- Fennel
- Bolted kale, broccoli, etc., which had mostly gone to seed.
- Leeks which I had planted relatively recently.
Much of the bottom half of the "S" had been cleared and expanded, with soil leftover from filling the raised beds covering the new area.
