Showing posts with label spinach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spinach. Show all posts

Monday, July 13, 2009

What's Growing (and what's not)

At the home garden, we're seeing little cucumbers forming, and mini-zucchini. Yesterday, I dug out a few Early Rose new potatoes for our supper--delicious! The tomatoes seem to have stagnated--flowers, bud no fruit forming. And of course, the radishes, peas, and chard are doing well in this cool weather. The spinach needs to be re-seeded and we started another row of lettuce and beets yesterday. I'm watching the tomatoes to be sure we don't get late blight--a disease which can wipe out our crop!

The cabin garden looks much more promising for tomatoes (the New Girl variety), and we've enjoyed some delicious radishes and beet greens. But cutworms decimated the pole beans and lima beans. The winter squash appears to be holding its own. The corn, on the other hand, is spotty at best. And you can definitely see where compost was spread, and where it wasn't! There's a stark difference in the output.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

It's all about gardening...


Each morning, I take my coffee and perambulate around the gardens to see what has come up or flowered. Callie sniffs the borders, checking where last night's visiting skunks and raccoons passed by. We added more garden space (yes, less lawn to mow) but I haven't decided what to plant there yet. We're munching our way through the first crop of spinach and lettuce, with a few French Breakfast radishes thrown in. I have a few rogue potatoes I missed last fall, sprouting amidst the Swiss chard and lettuce. I may have to dig them up early before they shade out the smaller leafy green.