Spend a little time each day outside in the garden tending to the plants

...and yummy…

Voilà the culprit of the unfortunate fate of my plagued broccolis, cauliflowers, and cabbages:

Her green eyes gave her up… and also the eggs I found under the leaves, which I immediately washed away. Hopefully my one and only broccoli left will have a future… in my plate ;)

I’m a little worried about the windy and chilly night my plants are going to spend after an extremely-windy day. It was so windy that I didn’t really tend my garden today except for arranging a couple of plants that were knocked down.

The winds were so strong today that I thought they were a bit short from being hurricane winds. Well, turns out they were! What would my surprise be that when I turned on the evening news, there’s a hurricane cat. 5 in the Pacific heading to the peninsula of Baja California. The satellite picture shows the hurricane spanning a good part of Mexico, including us here in the high plateau. I can just imagine how the people in the Pacific Coast are doing if it was this bad 600km inland at 2,000m high! This hurricane looks furious :(

Both weeding and brassicas’ pests have been difficult to control in this garden of mine. I gave up on my broccoli and cauliflower a couple months ago. Somehow, I had faith that my cabbage would make it, yet I have let myself witness its slow “slaughtering” —if there’s such a thing for veggies.

I guess I was just saving it to make an interesting photo, because saving it for a pottage is out of the question :S

This is my garden a few days ago.

Today was a big weed day. This is my fourth garden, but it’s the first one that has actually beaten me in the weed war. I have not been able to keep up; they grow everywhere all the time!! But at least I have them more under control than when I started.

I’m also collecting seeds. So far, I have collected sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, alyssum, zucchini, baby’s breath, coriander, and lavender.

I reaped the one potato I planted, and five or six cute little potatoes came out. I originally planted it to then make a Spanish tortilla, but my dad would like to have them done mashed with fish, peppers, olives, and alioli —a recipe my grandma used to cook. I guess I’ll have to cave in…

A little time each day will help me keep up with my garden, so weeds don’t take over, and my plants get their fertilizing, pruning, and tending.