There are many things to relish about the winter garden in South Florida. Above is actually relish! This is Roselle/Apple/Pecan relish made from Roselles grown in my garden. We ate it on Christmas Eve with the classic American meal – turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and green beans.
I have been enjoying vases and vases of flowers from these two, Globe Amaranth and Green Envy Zinnias. This one has culinary Fennel (not from the garden) I ate that, too.
The bag garden continues to recieve additions. This bag has Sugar Baby Watermelons underplanted with Bush Beans. Theoretically, the beans will fix nitrogen and feed the watermelons. I am going to, hopefully, train the watermelons up the hefty bamboo teepees and tie the fruit on with slings. The fruit weighs eight pounds, so this should be interesting.
Hopefully, these are the first fruit buds on the Cuban Avocado. A friend grew this from seed, it is the rare Avocado that is true to seed, they are usually grafted. It is now five years old and at the proper age to bear fruit. Fingers crossed.
A very typical sight on my front porch. A Anole lizard sunning on a pot of succulents. The succulents are, in bud, a Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) and a Fish hook Senecio.
That’s the rundown this Saturday on what I am relishing in my garden. To see SOS posts from other gardens follow this link http://www.thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com.
Happy Gardening!!
The Shrub Queen 
Did you start sowing beans and watermelon at the same time in this bag or one earlier than the other? or in small separate pots before? anway it’s a good idea to mix the two growths and I can’t wait to see if you were right in this choice.
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I planted the watermelon seeds separately- when they came up I transplanted them into bigger pots and added the bean seeds. When the beans came up I added the trellis and moved the whole pot into more sun..experiment again
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Good synchronized! Both look nice, good luck.
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Someday I will get back on my space ship and come for another visit Queen. Lovely planet you have there.
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Come on down..later!
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I suspect that your invitation is insincere Queen.
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Sincerely later, the preponderance of maskless tourists would freak you out. Sending you a fungus picture.
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Your green zinnias are doing great and so is your bag garden. I hope your Cuban Avocado works out.
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thanks, me, too. I can’t wait to eat one of the avocadoes. Just potted up the b. impatiens..do rabbits eat them?
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Not usually, but I can’t guarentee that. Hummingbird moths also like to feed on them in the evening.
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No rabbit guarantees?! LOL. The plants are beautiful and look super tasty. My arugula finally took. I have about five leaves.
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I heard about that avocado, perhaps here. Even though other avocados are not true to type, I know of many seed grown trees that produce very good avocados. In fact, I have met only one tree that produced avocados that were not good. (The problem is that such trees occupy space for a few years, only to get cut down if their fruit is no good.) I would be tempted to purchase a Cuban avocado if I ever encounter it in the market, just for the seed within. I recently purchased a yellow dragon fruit because a bit of the stem was attached to it.
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Have you ever seen a cuban avocado for sale?
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No, although I have seen some HUGE light green avocados in market in Los Angeles.
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I’m going to find pictures
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Everything looks great (even more so because nothing looks remotely like that here)! Supposed to get down to 7 tonight… ugh.
So glad those bags are working well for you. I’m interested to see how the bean/melon layers play out.
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thanks, stay warm. the beanomelons bear watching…just read there are dwarf bush watermelon? who knew?
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I love the idea of growing water melons and beans in bags and avocados from seed. What exciting garden adventures you have in Florida.
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Thanks, Liz. It’s alway an adventure or a misadventure,
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