{"id":65,"date":"2008-01-13T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/gardenblog\/2008\/01\/13\/new-views-and-greenhouse-tomatoes\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:51:06","slug":"new-views-and-greenhouse-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2008\/01\/13\/new-views-and-greenhouse-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Views and Greenhouse Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I planted about twenty broccoli plants in the fall this year. Some have done really well, and others have struggled. The one pictured below is the biggest one we had all year. They are the most tasty broccoli I have grown to date, equally good raw in salads and lightly steamed with a little butter, salt, and pepper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/broccoli_jan08.jpg\" title=\"Broccoli\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Packman Broccoli in Raised Bed Garden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ron chopped down several cedar trees yesterday opening up some very nice views of the valley and creek that can be seen from almost any vantage point in the back yard, and also from the front yard now that the wooden fence between the front yard and the backyard has been replaced by a temporary steel mesh fence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/creek_jan08.jpg\" title=\"Flat Creek\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">View of the Creek from the Back Yard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tomato plants in the greenhouse are producing many large delicious tomtoes now. I made some savory spaghetti sauce from the tomatoes pictured below this week. It is such a treat to have fresh organic tomatoes in January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/ghousetomatoesJan708.jpg\" title=\"Ripe Greenhouse Tomatoes\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ripe Greenhouse Tomatoes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ron has these plants growing slowly and steadlily. They haven&#8217;t gotten leggy, and they are producing the biggest, most perfect tomatoes that we have ever grown in the greenhouse. The watering, lighting, heating, and cooling is all automated for these tomatoes which is an added bonus, since they required very little manual attention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/gh_tomatoplants_1.jpg\" title=\"Greenhouse Tomatoes\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Greenhouse Tomato Plants<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/gh_tomatoplants_3.jpg\" title=\"Greenhouse Tomatoes\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Greenhouse Tomato Plants<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/gh_tomatoplants_2.jpg\" title=\"Greenhouse Tomatoes\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Greenhouse Tomato Plants<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/gh_tomatoes_1.jpg\" title=\"Greenhouse Tomatoes\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Greenhouse Tomatoes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There haven&#8217;t been too many big changes in the front yard since the last pictures that I took, except that the views between the backyard raised beds, the valley, and the front yard have been opened up by removing the cedar fence. We put up a temporary livestock fence for now just to get familiar with how the space was going feel when we put in the new rock retaining wall and black steel fence which will define the transition between the front yard and the back yard. We will also be replacing the cedar retaining walls around the back yard raised beds with the same limestone rocks we used for the front yard raised beds which should tie the appearances of the two areas together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/fy_jan1308_2.jpg\" title=\"Front Yard\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Front Yard  Facing Valley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/fy_jan1308_4.jpg\" title=\"Front Yard\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Front Yard and Back Yard Beds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/fy_terrace.jpg\" title=\"Front Yard\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Front Yard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to sow seeds today for the late winter and early spring gardens. Stay tuned for details.<\/p>\n<p>Happy gardening.<br \/>\nCarol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I planted about twenty broccoli plants in the fall this year. Some have done really well, and others have struggled. The one pictured below is the biggest one we had all year. They are the most tasty broccoli I have grown to date, equally good raw in salads and lightly steamed with a little butter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,7,18,20,24],"tags":[41,352,52,53,347,357,67,79,84],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-greenhouse","category-landscaping","category-organic-gardening","category-plant-production","category-vegetable-gardening","tag-broccoli","tag-greenhouse","tag-greenhouse-tomato","tag-hill-country-landscaping","tag-landscaping","tag-organic-gardening","tag-organic-vegetable-gardening","tag-sustainable-landscaping","tag-tomatoes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}