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Archive for May 25th, 2011

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I’m sorely behind in updating about what is going on in the garden. I’ll try to remedy that here.

What’s Growing

-strawberries, June bearing so the flowers are out

-peas, I started these babies in March but still no flowers

- swiss chard, a new one for me. Rainbow lights or something variety

- mini Bok Choi. I have a few of these already starting to go to flowers. We ate some last night.

- Lettuce.  I love lettuce so I have tons of kinds going. Pom pom is the only name I can remember. Both head and cut and come.

- Potatoes. Purple Viking. Growing well.  These are yummy. We also found a rogue potato plant in my Mother’s yard from last year and I’ve transplanted it to ours. It’s either Purple Viking or German Butterball

- Onions, red zepplin, walla wall, and some white one’s the name of which I’ve forgotten

- carrots,

- garlic, for fall harvest

- Tomatoes, Brandywine, Black from Tula and some Oregon variety

- cucumbers, pickling and I will plant the non-pickling ones on Friday

- Peppers, some sweet something or other.

-Herbs, basil, thyme, lemon thyme, oregano, chives, parsely (curled)

One would think we never need go to the grocery store again with all of this growing around but due to the fact that you have to take into account plant failures, pests, just a few plants in pots and raised beds, we really don’t have that much. But boy it is fun and rewarding!