My newest garden area on Oct. 11 (pic 1) and today (Nov 4). The pumpkin is going bonkers!
I suspect the impressive growth is because this area used to be the compost area for our composting toilet.
The stuff growing in here is:
* Yellow lilikoi (passion fruit)
* Pumpkin of some sort
* Pigeon pea (nitrogen fixing)
* Ice cream bean (nitrogen fixing)
* Malabar chestnut (not nitrogen fixing as far as I know, but I had a lot of them in pots, so I decided to plant a few here)
* A tomato (not sure how this snuck in)
I also stuck a few Lima beans and long beans (sometimes called foot long beans) in the soil, but I'm not sure if they've come up.
This area is basically solid rock + whatever was left from the composter + some soil I mixed up and brought in. The ice cream bean and pigeon peas are meant to provide some solid structure for the soil so it doesn't just get used up in one plentiful burst of growth then disappear. (It's also on a local high spot with a bit of a slope, so this area really won't hold anything unless there are roots to anchor the soil and help build more of it.)
We'll see if anything happens here beyond this initial growth spurt.
PS - can you spot the 2 cats in the first photo? 馃樃
