High Expectations

High Expectations

At the risk of jinxing things, my garden is coming along fantastically. The watermelons are climbing the watermelon fence. (a little). The spaghetti squash is over my head and blooming. A couple of the tomatoes are bigger than my fist. 2 cucumbers should be ready to pick today or tomorrow. We are eating yellow squash and zucchini. The patty-pan squash is blooming. There are even a couple of blooms on the eggplants.

The kale is still producing in great quantities and it still tastes good. How long can it last? There is even a little bit of lettuce that hasn’t bolted. I don’t think there is any way we will have tomato, cucumber and lettuce from the garden in the same salad; but there is a real good chance for the lettuce and cucumber. Only a few of the turnips have bolted; but the ones left don’t have very big turnips on them; so we may be almost finished with the turnips. Learn from experience. From now on it’s Tokyo Cross instead of Purple top.

Interior painting has started on the greenhouse and the plans for new shelves, lights and an inside raised bed are under way. The indoor raised bed may be a little radical. We’ll see.




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