Work(ing) Garden Update 2 04/19/2015

I haven't posted this month due to 'Life' happening at a pace faster than I can catch up, so I figure it's a good time for an update to the Rooftop garden being it's been six months since the last update.  The Rooftop Garden completed with a phase 3 planting of Hawaiian plants.  This completed the three sections of the raised planter that was given for the effort.  There has been cleanups and removal of dead plants and they have grown at a slower pace than when it first started.  I suspect it is due to the rainy and windy winter season we've had.  We even had an attack of aphids which took a toll and killed some of the plants.
It was starting to rain the other evening and I caught a perfect rainbow over the garden.

There are some Hawaiian plant and herbal plants.  There is even taro plants and a couple of stalks of sugar cane.

The popolo berries were quite plentiful.

A Pineapple actually developed.. we think.. hopefully, It'll actually become a fruit since usually it's supposed to take a year and it hasn't been that long.

There's been cleanups and harvests.  The carrots didn't do as well in the garden as they had really strange shapes. A few were roundish and this one looked perfect for Holloween.

There was also a purple variety of Kale.

I've never seen flowers on green onions and chives, but it sure is pretty.

In December, my coworker who raises prayingmantis released some of them in the garden in hopes of controlling some pests.  There were around 30+ released altogether. They were really tiny and really fast.

We've been able to track the growth of several who had shed and grown larger.

We even found a few ladybug that found its way to to the garden and it's been a nice discovery. There's going to be a one-year anniversary in June and perhaps more plantings of more hearty vegetable plants. 

An update on my bottle bean plant.  I've had a couple of more harvests but those have never been as large as the original.  I also planted chinese pea and I was able to harvest one pea. ha ha..  Unfortunately, the pea plant turned yellow and died..  I'm starting a new bean plant.