Sunday, May 12, 2013
Mothers' Day 2013~
It's time to take note of the things that go on in our micro-climate regarding our garden... Some "notes to self" if you will. I just need a place to keep this info...
We planted swiss chard in February. It took awhile, but it's really strong and healthy now. We planted beets a few weeks back...we only got partial germination...that's ok. It will stagger this way. The early lettuce (I think it's a deer tongue variety) held on until this week. It shot up like a weed within the past 7 days. Darn. We'll see how it tastes. The snow peas got one good setting of peas, now the weather is changing to hotter than they like, and they're trying to push out one last burst...I'm not sure it's worth waiting, unless there are a lot of plants...more than 12. The garlic bulbs we put in last year have tall, onion like stalks...Interesting. The tips of the leaves are starting to die back. Hmm. Hmm. Hmmm. The lemon balm is OUT of CONTROL!!! LOL!! I should put up the starts and give them as gifts! There are little lemon balm plants popping up all over that bed. *sigh*
Blueberries!! We bought 2 plants this year, according to Farmer Fred's recommendations... An O'Neill and an.....don't remember!! Regardless, the O'Neal (if I spell it enough different ways, one will be right!) fruit is ripening!! We ate our first 2 blueberries last night (ripe if they fall into your hand), and there are 2 more coming.
Farmer Fred is talking about bolting cilantro...LOL! We have one in full flower. We were looking at the beneficial insects in the plant just a couple hours ago. He's recommending to let it stay to get beneficial insects into the garden.
Bruce put sunflowers along the front fence...and is sprouting melons along the inner fence shared with the front yard. All of those plants are up and going. We don't have many tomatoes yet...I'm going to be buying fruit again this year. Cucumbers too if things don't get better quickly. The weather is really doing great this year. We needed more rain. I'm glad we use raised beds. We can water a lot more effectively.
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