Reaching My Limit! 6-17-09

While the pumpkin vine is thriving and seems to have no growing end in sight, my space for it has expanded. I added 2 rows of 4' wide landscape fabric, and the vines are just a foot from the newly expanded fence. The pumpkins are almost the size of baseballs!

I'm collecting leaves that i'd normally trash and every time I rake new leaves in, the pile gets full. Then in about two days when i rake again, there is plenty of room for the new leaves. I'm not sure how to tell when this leaf compost will be ready, but for now I'll just keep filling it.

My beloved chineese lemon tree was completely removed (trunk roots and all). My hubby didn't care for the lemons and it was an old tree... so in it's place will be a star fruit tree or Longan Tree or mexican lime tree or a mutant/grafted plum tree. We purchased a few plants last friday at Green Mart in the city of Orange. My favorite buys were the star fruit, dragon fruit and longan tree. I'll post pics of our new arrivals in the days to come.

Have a mentioned our passion fruit has began to fruit. We purchased it two years ago at the Weds Day Farmer's Market for five dollars. Since we knew it was a vine, we planted it next to fence and in the months to come forgot about watering it. For the next year, it survived on sheer will power! This year as i was sprinking fruit fertilizer I went ahead and dashed some the vine roots. Two months later, the vine took off and tripled in size with lots of blooming flowers! Now we're reaming the rewards, and hopefully it won't fall negelected anymore...