Asher’s nap was practically non-existent, so only a moment today (but so much I want to say!):
- We have been eating peas every day or two. Sugar Anns, Sugar Snaps, snow peas, and even a few mouthfuls of shell peas. How have I never tasted a fresh shell pea before? It was a life changing experience, and I’m not being all that hyperbolic. Need to blog about my pea experiences from this year so as to remember for next.
- All the garlic scapes have been harvested and eaten, save a small handful still in the fridge. Most of it was made into pesto. Mmmm.
- Kale is crazy. I still can’t stomach it, so the chickens got a kale fest yesterday. It should keep on producing if I keep it picked.
- The weeds are winning right now. Need to mow and mulch, mow and mulch, mow and mulch.
- Tomato plants are looking great. There’s a huge Delicious tomato that’s going to be a lunker. And the Yellow Pears ought to turn yellow at any moment. I will shout with joy and make much ado when we eat our first tomatoes.
- All the pole and bush beans are up.
- Every curcubit hill is growing nicely, save the Lemon Cukes, which did not germinate (sadly). Again, weeds are having a good time, so I need to weed and mulch.
- Peppers and Eggplants are touch and go. They just never took off, though they’re still hanging on. A couple of pepper plants look continually droopy, but never quite die. I’m hoping they’ll dig their roots in and start perking up. The cool, wet weather certainly didn’t help.
- Potatoes are flowering.
- Potatoes, peas, and fava beans all fell over during wind storms earlier in the week. Nothing died.
- Harvested the first fava bean pod yesterday! I thought surely we’d get none, as the aphids had a field day there, but I see a few more pods developing. Did you know the inside of a fava bean pod is fuzzy like velvet?
- Tomatillos doing great. One of the four plants is smaller and not really taking off, but it still has a couple of tomatillos on it.
- Thinned the radishes, and they immediately went crazy. They are spicy when they’re small!
- More weeds than plants in the rows that were seeded recently. Only one broccoli plant up, hardly any of the herbs, and a handful of lettuces. Most of the carrots are up, though! And I see chard. No horseradish.
- Re-potted the rosemary and snapdragons. Looking for a pot for the stevia.
- Really have to go now. We’re headed out to the garden to do some weeding, mulching, and hanging of strings for the pole beans to climb.
