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Ok so I thought I had not much tomatoes left. But I did get 3 bowls full, one big and 2 medium sized.  I have noticed that birds have been eating tomatoes a lot lately. I don't mind them but what annoys me is that they'd nib on one and then leave it, so I have so many tomatoes just rotting there. I can't harvest them so I decided to at least harvest what is untouched. There's still a few left that are still unripe. I left them alone. Birdies seem to like very ripe ones.

So in my earlier post I mentioned that I harvested radishes along with their leaves. I also harvested rocket, bok choy and curly endive. There was about 9 liters of radish leaves, around 8 liters of rocket, 6 liters of curly endive and around 5 liters of bok choy. All of this came from around 7 square feet of growing space only. And this is in addition  to what I harvested from these before. These plants regrow which is the cool thing about them. I am expecting to have a little more of bok choy from same space, rocket and possibly endive. Overall I'm very satisfied with the result. I have blanched the leafy greens and now waiting for them to cool before I pack then and out them in the freezer. 

So a couple of weeks unattended and radishes went out of control. I think we'd had enough radishes so we didn't pick them as often. And the results you can see in the photos. It's unbelievable but all these radishes and their leaves came from just one square foot or 30 cm square.  Yes it's unbelievable. This is a big collander which is 14 inches across and its full of leaves. And there's around 12 radish roots. And we had harvested from this spot earlier so one square foot goes a long way. I don't think we can eat all of these before they go bad plus there's the leaves which I plant to do something with as well. I'll be cooking some for dinner and freezing the rest.

This year is a little hotter than usual. No rain so far (the rain a couple of months ago is not considered, it was a one time thing). Inshallah we get some rain and the weather get a little cooler cuz right now I can see some plants are a bit struggling, and January is suppose to be coldest month of the year. This time last year I would be freezing at night sometimes using 2 blankets and would grab the blanket if I'd sit outside in the evening. Anyways this is not stopping my garden from thriving Alhamdellah. Below you will find the garden beds I created this year, I mentioned before that I added 2 bed 4x13, and added a 3rd one later which is doing extremely well even though it's only sand and manure. You will see a first cucumber(container grown though, the ones in the ground are still stalled) this year, and actually my first properly formed cucumber in my entire 3 years of gardening. Update on my butternut squash which is huge by now. I have finally bought and started installing the netting for vertical garden. My container garden is finally showing good progress. Tomatoes are loaded and cucumbers have started growing. Peppers are not so great and herbs are almost nil (I mean the container ones). I don't have the time to take pics of everything growing but I will try to as I go. And I apologize for the disorganized post bit I really am tight on time, school is tomorrow got lots of things to do.