Zucchini is In Season

      What happens when it is so stinking hot and humid that you don't even want to spend time in the garden?   You get hurried, and don't go bed to bed to check on everything.  You miss the two zucchini hiding in the shade.  They love the heat, growing as you are wilting.  Maybe they are a little bigger than the perfect size, but they are still beauties.

Fresh Veggies, June 22,  2012

       We are going to have a family get together tomorrow, with my sister from Nashville visiting for an overnight stay.  We will spend lots of time talking garden speak.  On the menu are cole slaw, potato salad and a fava bean salad.  That nice big red onion will look great in the potato salad, and maybe a little in the cole slaw as well.  I am off now to shuck the favas, then steam them to get out the little green beans.

Porch and Yard Update, 3/1/2012

    Mar  1st:    Day length:   11 hrs, 20 min   -   That's 38 minutes longer than 2/15
                      Sunrise:         6:34 AM
                      Sunset:          5:54 PM
                      High Temp:    59 degrees F      Low Temp:    34 degrees F

      March first!!  That is a date when we can certainly hope to be looking for the weather to improve.  Maybe some snow left, but it won't last long.  Onions and peas can soon be planted directly in the garden.  A new gardening season about to begin again.  So let's see what happened since the last update:

Wooden frame, 3/1/2012

       This frame has recovered nicely.  The suspected cos lettuce that I rescued last year is in various spots of the lower half of this photo.  The mizuna mustard is in the top left corner, and certainly is ripe for the picking.

Trex frame, 3/1/2012

      The Trex frame has some nice thick stemmed mustard ready to pick, as well as tatsoi.  The flat in the upper corner which contains some Walla Walla onions is doing well.

Starts doing well in fish tank cold frame, 3/1/2012

Red onions

      These red onions were rescued from the park compost pile last fall.  As they have turned soft or started to sprout, I have put them out in the garden.  In a couple of weeks, I will pull up the onions with multiple shoots, divide them, and replant them.  Onions have an incredible power to live and regenerate.

Flats on porch, 3/1/2012

      The plant rescue for the kale has come along nicely, as the plants have developed good root systems.  They need to be planted out in garden beds to free up more porch space.

More flats, 3/1/2012

Extra, extra, just picked for dinner.  Thick stemmed chinese mustard and Winter Marvel Bibb Lettuce

                      Bibb Lettuce so pretty it deserves a solo picture