I haven’t been able to spend much time in the garden because I have a knee that is misbehaving, but I took the kitties out today to see what we could see
Good haul of ginornous rutabegas. This is only a few
Runners have pretty flowers
Another handful of kale and a few squash
Some onions were bolting, so I pulled them.
I’ve been a little unsteady with a flare up, but I taped up today to do a little light check on the garden.
Scapes! Squash
Peppers are flowering
I found a pea (ate it)
Runners are running
tomatoes in west e (the ones planted later)
I have to admire it from up here (due to a hyper-extended knee) but the garden is looking gorgeous today!
ROLE CALL: tomatoes (Roma and cherry 5), peppers (sweet and hot- 10), artichokes (2 varieties), blueberries (7), huckleberry, salal (many), arugula, green beans, runner beans, beets, carrots, okra (6), asparagus, strawberries (sooo many), kale (out my ears), squash (4 varieties), peas, GARLIC (2 beds), onions (ditto), wax beans, apple (1), plum (1), herbs and flowers. (:
P had to move some soil, so we planted some new White Carolina strawberries, and the last three peppers (paprika and hot).
The Corsican mint looks really happy by the house.
I broke down the aerogarden and planted the basil in a larger deeper pot for inside. The ones I pulled had fully filled the pot with root, and were trying to dig deeper.
Weeded. Watered the clover seeds.
Planted some tarragon
I haven’t done a good job writing about harvests, so I thought I’d do an update.
We have a TON of kale in west c. I’ve been thinning it and eating the babies, now we are up to mostly full grown plants. This is my best kale result ever. Is it the bed? Overseeding?
Radishes grew well, and we are bunches until my lips started to swell and crack. No radishes for Alison next year ): I’m scared to try the turnips.
We’ve eaten a few young red onions, and 4 garlic scapes!
We’ve had a bunch of arugula. It’s bolting now, but still tastes ok.
There’s lettuce in my plastic bowl for lettucing
Berries are on their way. Blueberries are forming, as are raspberries, and strawberries. There are blackberries and salal in flower stages, and even a few grapes.
We worked outside a bit today.
P planted the mystery tomato (nova?) next to the spa pad as an experiment. (will it thrive because of the held heat?)
I bought a jalapeno pepper that I hope we can use in salsa.
Yellow squash spotted!
okra flower!
I also trimmed back the blackberry and cat mint, fed the tomatoes, watered the grass and clover seeds and weeded.
