Sacramento Vegetable Gardening: Harvest Season IS NOT a Celebration!

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Enclosing my garden again

You might wonder why I am enclosing my garden again,  the past weeks we have been having lots of rain and wind and the wind blow and little shed that I had near my garden right on top of my garden.  The weeds have grown all over and the border has been destroyed.  Luckily I did not have no radish planted as I had harvested some days before. 

First Step I will remove the chicken wire so I can use it again.

Second step I will do is weeding out the space again and aerate the soil as the rain made it very compact.

Third step I will fix the border of the soil so I can place the chicken wire against the soil and then place cement blocks to hold the chicken wire in between the soil and the blocks. 

It’s not as professional but it’s a quick fix so that I can continue my gardening and keeping my pets out of the garden.  This will be my weekend project and I will be taking pictures of it so I can post here so you see how it turns out.

Radish Salad

Although I am from Belize, I had to make something to celebrate the 4th of July weekend. It has just become and custom for me and my family to celebrate the diversity and to learn about the culture of other countries. Of course we make it our own celebration but basically with the same concept, idea and mentality, so that we can experience the culture of it.
Bar B Q was going and hot dog and the full work, I made some traditional Belizean food also and like I had radishes in the garden I went and pulled some out. I made a delicious salad that everyone loved. Below is the recipe, hope you enjoy.

4 cups radishes, washed and sliced
1/2 cup thinly sliced onion
1 cup diced fresh tomato
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 small clove garlic, minced
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh basil or fresh mint
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
fresh chopped parsley for garnish
Preparation:

Combine sliced radishes, onion, and tomato. Whisk together the salt, garlic, pepper, basil or mint, lemon juice, and vegetable oil. Toss with salad then garnish with parsley.
Serves 6

First Crop, Radish

Radishes require full to partial sun light, and the soil need to be well moist but with fast draining.  Compost can help with this.  I prepare my soil loosely because the radish root needs to expand under ground and it will get bigger if the soil is loose and well composted. 

Plant radishes half (½) inch deep and two (2) inches apart so it has room to grow.

There are many types of radishes but the ones that I know of that are grown more in my area are the red and white radish.  I have read on the internet that there is a black variety, but the one that I like the most is the red variety.

With my first plantation of radish I noticed that the germination process takes about a week or so and the plant starts to grow quite fast and before you know it you going to have lots of radish for your use.

Radishes can be harvested in little as three (3) weeks from planting.  It’s the best crop to plant for impatient gardeners.  Pull radish when they are of usable size.  So check them after three weeks to see if there are of size.  It may vary for your type of climate but   the fun is learning and sooner or later you will get the hang of it.  I did

Radishes have wonder properties for the health.  It helps with Jaundice, Piles, Urinary Disorders and that’s just a few for a more detail benefits of radish click here

Organic Garden

Today will be the beginning of my healthy eating behavior, growing my own vegetables organically will provide safer, cleaner and better tasting produce for my use.  While there is no definite evidence that organic foods have more nutrient, researchers at the university of California says that certain organic food produce more vitamin c and other antioxidants that conventionally grown foods.  Organic vegetables have become more expensive as its demand had become very high in these times.  So it will definitely save me money over there years.  I also wanted to go green, help the environment to reduce the chemicals that are placed into the soil and water streams due to agriculture.  I would be doing my part for the environment and at the same time protecting myself from all those chemicals that are on those commercially grown produce, and the best part of growing you own vegetables is that you are going to have fresher, more nutritious, vegetables for that wonderful recipe that we all love to cook.