Muffinlabs!

Next year, plant taller lattices for the peas. They grew so tall that they flipped over and are almost touching the ground. I propped them up a bit, but I hope they're harvestable soon.

The last week or so has been mostly terrific for the garden, with a few exceptions. The peas are almost all flowering now, and I hope for a pretty good harvest from them this year. The soybeans are doing well. The tomatoes that have survived to this point are doing alright, although they could use some consistently warm weather. Soybeans look well, bok choy is doing alright, the onions and shallots are slow, but seem fine. The carrots look great - I'm going to harvest a whole bunch of those.

Our salad greens and spinach are going to go completely unused - they bolted before we could do anything with them. Dill and cilantro are growing reasonably well, but there's not a lot of either. I'll need to plant a good batch of dill if I want to use it to make pickles.

The potatoes are still growing, but we had a massive thunderstorm a few days ago that did some serious damage to them. My hilling got shoved all around, and the rain eroded a lot of the dirt away. That and the wind caused a lot of damage - plants are all tangled together, probably lost a few. That's one of the problems with packing them in close on steep rows.

Anyway, cucumbers will go in the ground in the next few days, melons soon, and a few other things, and that will be it until I can finish off the peas and a few other plants.

Finally they are budding...

Happy June!

The last couple of weeks have been pretty killer in garden-land. I got a couple of batches of seedlings in the mail and put them in the ground about two weeks ago. Half of them died (technically, I think more than half of them died, more like two-thirds). I bought some more from Old Depot Gardens, and they're mostly doing okay. Next year I'm growing my own. They've all been dosed with some fish fertilized which seems to be doing a good job.

The peas are weeks behind where I would expect them to be. I checked them today and it looks like they might flower in the next day or two. They've been in the ground for close to 60 days.

Sunlight is becoming an issue. Our trees are blocking sunlight, and the lilacs on one side and the fence on the other side aren't helping. There's a few rows that are getting decent sun, and a few that probably shouldn't be planted at all.

I put a bunch of herbs in the ground - Oregano has absolutely the smallest seeds I've ever seen. The potatoes look totally awesome - if they were growing any better I'd change careers.

And everything else is looking pretty good.

Pics in the gallery.

First off, here's the garden. Things look pretty good - thanks to all of our friends who ran the soaker hoses while we were away. The peas look good, the soybeans are up, carrots are looking good, shallots and onions have sprouted, bok choi is up, chard, spinach, scallions, mesclun greens, beans, taters, and some things I've forgotten.

Looks like our beets never sprouted. I'm going to try replanting them sometime this week, when the tomatoes and peppers go in as well. The beans are doing all right, except that they seem really fragile.

In the berry patch, it looks like the raspberries I planted aren't doing anything, but some of the wild plants seem to be growing, and we have some rhubarb in there as well that's growing nicely.

Now that all the trees have their leaves fully in, the sun isn't quite so strong. There's still a good amount of direct sunlight, but I'm a little concerned it won't be enough. Some of the plants look a little gangly as it is already.

I spent a couple of hours weeding today and could've spent more. We're supposed to get a bunch of rain over the next few days but I'm hoping to have a couple more things planted before the end of the week, along with tomatoes, etc, etc, etc.

Oh, pics of wales are on Han's site.