Work(ing) Garden Update - 10/03/2014

Another month has past and time for another update from the roof top garden. Even though I'm pretty sure there was no fertilizer other than the manure that was first added to the soil, the squash from the last post grew and got quite large.  There were actually a couple of them and two smaller ones that were harvested sooner since they said the larger they are the more seeds inside. 

Then, in late August, they expanded the garden to take over the entire planter and planted more plants.  Now there are Chinese cabbage that in one month have kind of overgrown.  I have not seen anything like this in Chinatown.  

Then there were these snow peas.  I've never seen it on a vine before.  So cute!  Unfortunately, after seeing these two peas, the plant has died.  Maybe it's the heat.

There is a Zucchi plant.  Apparently they only bloom in the morning. My co-worker took this around 7:30am in the morning.

After the blossom closes, it exposes the baby zucchini.

There are also carrots.  I have no idea how one knows when it is ready to harvest.

The cabbage looks really perfectly shaped.

"We got the beets!" 

I shot this 'blind' by reaching my camera to the plant 'cuz it's kinda farther in.  The angle of this shot came out really cool..look like the attack of the killer tomatoes.  They are actually a variety of grape tomatoes I think.

There's this lone red pepper.

The lemon grass is finally showing some progress.

Overgrown lettuce that needs to be harvested.

Here is one of the recent harvest that was given to a lucky garden volunteer.  

The garden uses the square foot method to plan out how the plants will be placed.  Strings are tied to chopsticks secured at the edge of the planter to form a grid.  Here is the beginnings of the zucchini plant along w/ what I think is the the remnants of steer manure that they mixed into the dirt..the secret ingredients..yuck!

In 1 1/2 month, you can see the difference.