The leaf garden is chugging along. Unfortunately the potatoes have failed to pop up, with the exception of one. The likely culprit in this instance is burrowing creatures like moles and voles. Luckily there is a secret patch of potatoes elsewhere which might be appearing in the blog soon. In place of the potatoes we will be planting black beauty and white ghost eggplant.
...the collards are going crazy, as are all of the other leafy greens like kale, swiss chard, bok choy, and mizuna.
... a beautiful contrast of swiss chard, curly green and black kale, and red sails lettuce. Never heard of red sails? How about deer tongue...
I am trying to produce lettuce year round, we will see how it goes.
Here is the years first stand of pole beans, delicious raw fresh off the vine. The beans are interplanted with radishes, which will be fully harvested by the time the beans need the space. The leaf garden has a similar story, with one row of mizuna in between two rows of bush beans.
...cilantro is thriving, as are the dill and carrots...
The darker green, dill, was not planted, but rather is volunteering. Dill was planted in this area last year and it has reseeded. Hopefully the carrots will be able to thrive amongst it, because i'm surely not planning on removing it. I have not yet sown any dill this year and these few plants will grow into quite alot of dill.
...The kohlrabi is doing its kohlrabi bulbing thing, as are the turnips...
Its friend, the beet, is a much slower grower, and although they were sown at the same time, no bulbing has occured yet...
Although most of the arugula went to seed before it could be harvested, it is still edible, only with a threefold spicyness. Some hardcore arugula enthusiasts actually prefer the post bolt flavor.
The tomatoes seem to be on steroids, but its really nothin more than some good ol fashion compost, rock dust, dried manure, and crushed up shells. The other summer crops are still young, but will soon catch up to the tomatoes.
Bell peppers, eggplant, summer squash, and zucchini.
And finally a few eye pleasers...
fuzzy lambs ear buds
the roses are in bloom
beautiful zinnies and celosias, next to a more than cool miniature japanese maple
