Tag: radishes

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.

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!

Peas.

Planted some peas in west C, and some arygula in upper c. P got most of the other beds ready for 60 degree soil.

Roots and greens are sprouting well.

We have a few asparagus spikes poking through the soil- not as many as I’d hope, but a couple are quite thick.

The hops are already going crazy, p pulled the extra bits off today.

Raspberries are starting to bloom.

It’s been quite dry and warm here the last few weeks- so I watered today and a couple of days ago.

Starts are starting- okra and tomato plants are going first (:

Roots and Greens

Planted kale and Swiss chard in West C, after tilling in the cover crop and adding compost. I just sort of sprinkled the seeds around.

Planted root crops together in upper c. It might be a mess, but I plan to thin things down as I go. Carrots, rutabaga, beets, and radishes. Covered the first set with some loose soil (1/2 deep) and just sort of sprinkled the rest in.

put out cilantro seeds

And some abandoned bonbons (herbs and edible flowers.)

Fertilize!

It’s been raining for a few days, almost thunderstorming, and I’ve been busy/flaring to much to be outside. (dislocated neck?)

I planted a few more okra starts in south d and west e

After pulling a bunch of bolting radishes. I found some beets hiding under there, too.

And a lovely robins egg blue robins egg.

the green beans are growing!

I fertilized (acidizer) the tomatoes, except for one container tomato as a test.

Then I side dressed basically everything- lower and pots

Planted nasturtium along the new rock wall in the lower bed

And a couple of delicata on the slope- protected by copper and sluggo.

Asparagus progress

Volunteer Mullein

Okra progress.

Sunny Saturday

P and I worked in the garden this afternoon. He mowed and got the irrigation mostly set up. I planted planted planted.

4 okra plants went into south d.

I replaced the non-starting direct sown squash seeds with starts.

Planted the remaining “healthy” peppers in upper c. Five total between the two beds.

Starting some more leafy greens to plant in the upper beds.

As I do every year I planted “just one more” tomato (red Robin) in a container.

Here’s some progress shots.