garden update (what, already?)

[ceelove]

I could say, you know it's verging on summer when we're getting multiple things from the garden, but, um, no. Now that's true all the way through the winter.


- picked the first peas on 5/25; last year, it was 5/31, and I planted them several weeks later than I did this year, when we basically had two years' worth of winter as opposed to this year's none
- the winter lettuce has bolted, with the spring lettuce just in time to fill in
- beets! and carrots! No, really, this is more of an achievement than you'd think.
- every year the cover crops get better, and this year's yielded up bounteous pea blossoms that girls devoured and adults said tasted like spring
- finally, finally, finally finished last year's kale in a huge batch of kale chips. freaking amazing. must have given away bushels of it, from last fall onward.
- also doing well: tomatoes, beans, asparagus, raspberries, blueberries, garlic, leeks, corn, and some of the herb spiral - dill, parsley, catnip.
- not doing well: the cucumbers (yomped after they came up), broccoli/romanesco planted out, husk cherries and cumin (all the seedlings died). Ah well, it's not a garden without a few new mysteries/adventures.

And here's the tally of what I've harvested already this year:
- winter lettuces, mache, claytonia, minutina
- old-world root crops of scorzonera (liked from last year) and salsify (don't like)
- pea blossoms and tendrils
- kale, chard, cilantro, chives (all returned from their roots)
- spring lettuces and mustard greens
- peas
- straaaaaaawberries
- bok choi, tatsoi, baby kale from the polyculture
- endless smiles

Comments

[beah.livejournal.com]

"yomped"?

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

They were there, and then they weren't. I surmise cutworms or the like ate them up.

[beah.livejournal.com]

Aha! I thought cutworms just chewed through stems - do they then devour the whole plant they've knocked over?

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

They can eat the whole tender young plant.

[medyani.livejournal.com]

Or, it might well have been the ravenous bumper crop of slugs n snails we are having this spring.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

The garlic I planted last fall? It came up twice in December, once in January, once in March, and mysteriously completely disappeared by the time April came around. I replanted some this past week, finally, and it's already over 2 inches high. I shit you not, someone is playing with us.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

If you have any extra smiles, I'd happily take them off your hands. :>