Thursday, May 28, 2009

The first greens of the season

My experiment in the pots on the deck failed because I planted too many per pot, but I moved some of the collards to the garden in the back and also planted some vates collards as well as turnips and tonight we harvested some of the greens and my husband sauteed them with garlic.  Delicious!  The depth of flavor was wonderful!  I'm so excited about our harvest this year.  I need to post some new pictures and I'll try to do so this weekend.

I hope everyone's having a lovely spring!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

An update on the peas, greens, and the Square Foot Gardens

One of the pea varieties (Alaska, I think) has flowers on it today! They're so pretty when they flower. I took a couple of pictures, although I'm not sure you'll be able to see the flowers very clearly.



As you can see they're doing pretty well and I'm hopeful about getting a good harvest as long as it doesn't snap super-hot.

The greens, on the other hand, aren't doing as well. I think the problem is that I was lazy when I planted them and thinned them out too late, so the plants aren't flourishing.





I don't hold out much hope for getting a harvest from any of these this year, but it was instructive and I'll likely try again in the fall.

The Square Foot Gardens are doing great! We're slowly filling in the empty squares, although the fourth one is still empty at this point. We've added a couple of different varieties of tomatoes and the most up-to-date diagram of each garden is available on my Flickr photostream.




I didn't snap pictures of the zucchini and yellow squash in the front yard, but they're doing really well. Everything is growing like crazy, thanks to all of the rain we got! My irises are blooming and they're so beautiful, I'll try to get some pictures of them for my next post. I hope that everyone is having a wonderful spring!