My Sunflowers,flowers, vegetables

My sunflowers, flowers and vegetables 
2016 Sun flowers and Garden
The goldfinch loves sunflower. Not only one, two came at the same time.

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This sunflower must be the sweetest one, 4 bees.

New Kind not shown in 2015

This kind just for the pot only? Won't grow taller or bigger

2015 Sun flowers
Different Size

9ft

 4ft

 1ft

 Diffferent colors

Different time, every 12 hours July 5 7AM to July 6 7PM, then July 7 AM, July 8 7AM

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4D Gardening (If you understand Chinese, an article was published in the following link about 4D vegetable gardening)

種菜經驗談-- 四度空間種菜

http://pacific-times.com/Default.aspx?RC=2&nid=d2e4bfac-c41f-48ad-85f8-4ce0e838e190

0 D Garden (March 2014 or 2015)



4D Garden in September, 2014


1 D Garden vegetables (Single kale and Swiss chard)


2 D Vegetable Garden ("sheets" of vegetables, top picture: kale more bluish, Swiss chard more yellow-greenish, the plastic nets to prevent deer)

3D Garden (climbing up fence with different squash/ melone---)

4D Garden (growing between the patio and lawn, on top of patio and even on the trees/bushes)



    Bitter melons  growing on trees/bushes??


Last year (2014) garden ----------------------------------------------------
The  first flower day 52 after seeding 

Day 65

Day 70 and later , someore than 8 feet tall 

Inside the vegetable garden also can survive in little pot

Sunflowers attract bees/ butterflies and birds (Goldfinch shown, can't get picture of humming birds) 3 bees for one flower



Butterfly came 

Birds too

On top of the flower at the lowest one, a goldfinch. 

Other Flowers: Azaleas and others

      Vegetable flowers are beautiful too

Vegetables

Kale/Swiss Chard 

Kale(blue-green) and Swiss Chart (green-yellow)

Kale

Swiss chards/rainbow(red,white, yellow,etc) chards 

Swiss chard and Kale can survive from late March to late October

     You can pick and they continue to grow, even grow well in the pot from April to October)

     Before picking

     After picking

     3 weeks later

Luffa /BitterMelon/(Italian, Indian---)Squashes

Luffa cylindrica (Sponge squash)

Sponge from luffa squash, "skin" half way removed ,skin all removed, one from 2 yrs ago

Bitter Melon 

Italian(Indian ---) squashi