Month: May 2020

Salads

Besides asparagus, the main thing we’ve been getting out of the garden is salad greens.

The corn salad and spinach are doing great, kale and chard are coming in, and I’ve been thinning out the onions and beet greens.

Yesterday i found a couple of tiny peas!

Made me so happy.

The difference between blackberries

I did some blackberry pulling up top today, and figured out how to identify the different types (so I can leave the trailing native)

The native type has 3 leaves on each stem. The top leaf has two sticky outy (scientific language) lobes at the base.

Evergreen has 3 leaves as well, but the base leaves have the pokey lobes, and the top leaf is rounded. It also look more ruffly all around, the stem is reddish, and it has denser thorns on the stem.

Himalayan has 5 leaves. Easy peasy

More planting

Put out tomato cages and planted some squash from seed between the starts, more okra seeds in the okra bed.

Planted the runner beans

Some borage below the plum tree (and a couple of alyssum seeds). And threw some lupine seeds under the purple rhododendron.

Picked picked another big batch of rhubarb for making wine. (“3 lbs 9.5oz”). He’s already made an upside down cake.

Things are looking good. It’s going to be 80+ today again so i watered everything.

And more asparagus

Planting day

I’m very happy with how my starts are looking.

Lots of planting today. The weekend is going to be in the 80’s, nights over 50. I hope I’m not jumping the gun!

Green and yellow beans planted.

Peppers (healthy, jalapeño 2, mini bell 2) and tomatillos 3

Tomatoes (nova 2, legend 1) and okra (clemson 3, jambalaya 3)

Added a sungold to the nova.

One of each pepper in a bag (healthy, waltz, jalapeño, mini bell, anaheim)

Squashes look oh-kay. I might add a seed to each for backup.