Some people would say winter is the hardest time of year in the garden. The turn of spring and summer has got to be close. Except for tying up tomatoes and pulling weeds there just is not a lot to do right now. The garden has been pretty heavily mulched so there are not even many weeds. Picking greens and peas and cutting broccoli and asparagus is fun; but it is already getting old. The summer stuff is not coming in yet.
Three small yellow squash have been picked. The first zucchini was 1 ½ ‘’ long when the blossom fell. It was rotten already. It did not appear to have been struck by a pest. Sometimes at the beginning of the season the first female blossoms don’t get pollinated. If the situation persists, I will have to engage in artificial insemination. (or something like that)
There are still no tomatoes on the tomato vines; but some of the little cucumbers at the base of the cucumber blossoms seem to be growing a little larger. The cabbage is heading up a little bit; but it will still be awhile before it is really a cabbage head. The broccoli is still making side shoots, so I won’t have either that space or the sugar pea space for planting something else for awhile. Ho-hum.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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