Shoots and roots

Yes, I’m a dork. There are more marigolds, some cosmos, and new basil in here now as well. Also, we lost two sunflowers to slugs. :(

Leafy: Lettuce lettuce lettuce. From Front: Mass lettuce, Spinach, More Lettuce, Bok Choy, Celery, Edible Flowers

Roots: from front, parsely, carrots, beets, old radish patch, marigolds. Onions and Leeks are planted along side of this row.

Shoots: Through the pea vine.

Twice this amount, daily. When the next succession comes it we’ll be looking at 4x this amount daily. We need help!

Little rabbit. This was from a disposable camera so the quality isn’t so hot.

A little cuteness.

Hot peppers! I’ll be adding these to some of the tomatoes that we will hopefully be canning.

Peas are so incredibly beautiful.

There’s that weird white radish again. I took a lot of pics of that.

At the amusement park. I couldn’t not add this to the mix.

I thought I’d gotten some shots of our brassica and fruit rows. I guess those will be good for the next posts. I got behind on my photos because we had the Annual Camera Breakdown. Seems like I have to get a new digital camera every single year. Around Mother’s Day. Go figure. Little poky fingers in the shutter will do it every time.

The radishes are wiped out at this point, praise jesus. Now we’re trying to figure out what to do with all of crazy lettuces. And bok choys. We had to pull out a few bok choys because of bolting, but there are still mass quantities left. We also lost the beautiful central heads in our broccoli plants because they looked like they were going to seed. The side shoots are doing ok, however. Everything else is coming along with super speed. I’ve been running Egg Checks daily, flicking the little ‘pillar eggs off the bottoms of leaves, smashing the wigglers, picking any miner-filled leaves. Some odd insect has plagued the spinach and we haven’t been able to eat any yet, but after a freak storm the plants just took off and seem to have outgrown the pest problem. We are seeing more signs of slugs, and have lost 2 out of three sunflower seedlings. But, remaining sunflower is a bit taller now and might have a chance. Something weird is going on with the basil, as well. I thought the yellowed bottom leaves may have been a nitrogen deficiency and so I added some blood meal. Just a small amount, but I think it burned one of the plants and there hasn’t been any change in the others at all.

Anyway, this afternoon I made tacos and realized that each of the vegetables we were eating would soon be coming from the garden. Tonight we had collards from the garden, and of course the steady stream of lettuce.

 

~ by radishly on June 7, 2009.