Garden progress update

The beans are hard to harvest because you have to reach your bare legs and bare arms past the zucchini branches which irritate the skin.
The fig tree the back is still looking very wimpy. I have been watering it more and it seems to be responding well.

Fed veggies

Fertilized all vegetable beds in front and back to eating asparagus.

The squash I planted in the bed second from the garage.

Melon patch

These are in plot two from garage

Starting seeds indoors

I used the Burpee 72 cell seed starter kit. I read that this was a good way avoid any damping-off problems.

I am hoping that the fluorescent lights will be just warm enough to keep the seed tray at the right temperature. The seed tray is setup inside the house.

Pruning santa rosa plum

I notched the Santa Rosa plum above two buds and above 1 branch. The intended form is a bush. My intention in the way I notched it was to create 3 strong laterals.

Orange tree pruning

I just cut a large branch off the orange tree. I'd say it was 15 percent of leaf volume from the tree. I cut the branch off because it is 1 of 2 branches that does not seem to fruit well. I have also noticed that on these two benches have leaves that are fairly yellow especially around their edges.