Category: The Garden

More!

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

Eating

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.

Another tomato and pepper

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.

Tomato and pepper time

I’ve been waiting to plant the tomatoes and peppers because the nights have still been cool- but today was the day. They were looking a little sad in the greenhouse because of humidity and heat.

South b- healthy, healthy, mystery (healthy or hot?), waltz (paprika), hot <those last two might be switched |:

South c- healthy

West e – two nova tomatoes

Scapes are coming!

Bees are happy

I weeded my butt off, and put together the new storage bench (and sealed it)

work it

planted a sungold (left) and nova (right) in south a. I feel like it’s a little early, so I’ll hold off a week before I plant the other two. The cages look so optimistically huge.

Replanted some peas.

Weeded and planted lupines, allysum, marigolds, and nasturtium willy nilly in lower bed.

Churned and planted grass seed and those flowers in the new dirt below the raspberries. Pulled out stones to help with erosion elsewhere.

Repotted a couple more tomatoes and peppers and moved them outside.

It’s spruce tip time so p came out and harvested them

I pulled out kale to thin west c, and almost bolted radishes.

Progress!

After thwarting

The robins, I transplanted the tomatoes and peppers and moved most of them (and the okra) to the green house.

I planted a little bit of spinach in with the arygula

Seeded the new soil and part of the cur down blackberry

And basically moved furniture around and put things away. It’s not done, but it feels better, and took all damn day.

To spite the Robins

The screen worked to hold the robins off the peas, to an extent. I have a handful of peas and beans starting. Yesterday I found these handy baskets on clearance at Fred Meyer, so I’m trying them out.

There were some bugs hiding under the protection of the screen… So that’s not great.

I also replanted the beans and peas, and added fresh seeds next to my squash starts. (we put drippers out on Sunday.)

The soil looks summer dry. /: