New Garden(er), please help me identify plants

 

Hello, I've inherited a garden -a month or so back.

I've been trying my best to keep everything growing and removing the
weeds, but I'm unsure what the plants are and the proper names for
them are.

Any help would be much appreciated.

They can all be viewed here, at picasa:

 
http://picasaweb.google.com/116343299513741786677/GardenPictures?feat=directlink

Many thanks,


Warderfront

 

On 7/28/10 5:01 PM, Fletcher Madden wrote:

http://picasaweb.google.com/116343299513741786677/GardenPictures?feat=directlink

#6 looks like thyme.

In #9, the plant in the center-back is a carrot or possibly parsley.
The plants along the left appear to be beets.

#13 is yellow oxalis, an awful weed.  Get rid of it as soon a possible!
 Be sure you get at least some of the taproot.

Where are you?  That is, what is your climate?  Knowing your climate
might help to identify plants growing outdoors.

--
David E. Ross
Climate:  California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>

 

In article


#3 is hyacinth bean, Lablab purpureus, which if given a trellis or other
support will produce beautiful vines covered with those pretty lavender
flowers which eventually become purple pods containing attractive seeds
that are poisonous yet edible upon prolonged boiling.

#4 is some kind of common edible bean.

#6 looks like rosemary to me.

#11 is purslane, an edible weed, growing amongst the beans.

#13 looks like an Oxalis of some sort, not sure.

Nice garden.  Best of luck to you!

 

Fletcher Madden wrote:

http://picasaweb.google.com/116343299513741786677/GardenPictures?feat=directlink

1) lots of stuff
2) something gone to seed
3) beans #A
4) beans #B
5) dunno
6) rosemary
7) on the left a cucurbit, probably cucumber, middle something gone to seed
hard to tell without seeing the leaves, behind with the yellow flower a
brassica gone to seed and I think strawberries
8) a weed, probably mallow
9) silverbeet & carrots at the back possibly eggplant at the front
10) a small one of 5) ?
11) a weed whose name I forget
12) beans #B
13) weeds (clover)
14,15) apples and deer (YUM)

A few comments:
- This is an international forum and there can be confusion over common
names.
- There is no mulch
- More organic matter in the soil would be good (organic mulch will help)
- The trellises at the back that would be good for climbing beens and peas
are not used
- Normally I would say save the seeds but since you don't know if they are
worth saving just pull the stuff that has gone to seed and compost
- Won't you be annoyed if the deer (or something else from the forest) take
to the apple trees.  Is there any sign of damage?


David

 



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