My veggie patch was feeling a little hurt by all the blog time going to the flowers last week. So I'm giving it all the love this week.
(What my veggies don't realize is that they're my real favorites. I know. Mamas shouldn't have favorites. But I do. I spend more time loving on my snap beans than on my snapdragons. So last week's flower showcase was just compensation. But now the veggies are hurt. You know, it just doesn't pay to play favorites!)
There've been a few late-ish frosts and chills, so things are a little wonky right now. But my veggies are handling the weirdness well.
My broccoli, cabbage and peas are very happy about the cool evenings.
I've gotten one very small head of broccoli from a somewhat deformed plant; otherwise, I've still got a few weeks to go on the broccoli, and several on the cabbage. The peas look like they're about to start flowering.
This patch is for old seeds. I just threw them all in there to see what would come up--parsley, cilantro, lettuce, arugula, basil, spinach, carrots.
So far, the only thing I haven't got at least one of is the carrots. The arugula is quite insistent. Everything else seems to have been past its prime, but not entirely dead.
I've put in most of my tomatoes and peppers, although with the recent chilly night, I don't know how they'll do.
The funny thing is the leeks.
These were a failure from last year that made it through the winter. I tried sowing some seeds in August or September--plenty of time for baby leeks, at least, before the heavy frosts came.
They didn't sprout for the longest time. And then they just didn't grow for the longest time after that.
I left them in, though, being too lazy to pull them out. And come March, they started growing. They're about half-size now. I've added a few layers of compost, to lengthen the white parts a bit, and I hope they'll be ready to start using in a month or so. It's totally messed up my crop rotation--that square was supposed to be beans this year--but I think I'll live through it. I love leeks.
So there we are. I'm hoping to put in a few more things next week--snap beans, cukes, maybe some squash if it's warm enough. I'll wait awhile on the eggplants and limas.
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wow. that's a real vegetable garden. raised beds and all.