November Gardening

It's winter time in sunny Southern California, which means time to clean out of hydroponics experiment and prepare the next batch of seedlings.

November Gardening

It's winter time in sunny Southern California, which means time to clean out of hydroponics experiment and prepare the next batch of seedlings.

Plenty of green on the hydroponic wicks
Clean and being cleaned bottles
Cleaning the wicks
Seeds we want to plant
Refilling these with soil

Meanwhile back at home on the balcony garden:

Harvesting our first radish
Chopping up the radish

The radish turned out with a very peppery flavour! It's a cherry belle variety of radishes.

The next week we harvested the second radish:

Radish and lettuce
Harvested radish and lettuce
Harvested shishito peppers to go with them!
All combined into one simple salad

As a bonus picture, here's the big root systems our stunted lettuce plants made: