The cabbage shown has been in the ground since the very end of April. It had been in the ground 4 weeks exactly on the day I took these pictures last week. This plant was about 14 inches at it’s widest, and the sorry little cabbage head was the size of a golf ball or [...]
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31 May
Baby Cabbage Heads are Forming
I have focused in on the 2-3 inch heads that are starting to form on my Primero purple cabbage plants. The outer set of leaves is probably 18 inches wide right now. Purple cabbage tastes the same as green cabbage and can be used interchangeably in recipes. However you have to be aware that it [...]
30 May
Garlic Scapes have arrived
My 32 square feet of hardneck garlic (approximately 100 plants) have sent up flower stalks, or scapes. I removed most of them, and we’ll eat as many as we can. They have a taste somewhere between garlic and an onion and are a nice treat in a salad or stir fry.
28 May
Pea Pickers
We are all back at home again. The sugar snap and snow peas got picked today. We got the best crop we have ever grown at this location, but in leaving them on the trellis until almost June I am starting my cucumbers much later than ever before. We’ll see how that goes. The pea [...]
21 May
The Tomatoes are putting on size
The tomatoes are starting to grow well for me in their new boxes. As you might be able to see I have planted each one with two basil friends to keep it company, and nature has planted several annoying wanna-be friends in there too. The wire tomato cages are only there to steady the plant [...]
18 May
Garden Overview, Early May
Okra, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potatoes, Garlic, Cabbage, Strawberries, Beets, Carrots, Peas, Potatoes, Squash, Watermelons, Zucchini. I need to plant cucumbers where those peas are, but I’m giving them ONE MORE week before they are evicted.
17 May
Planted Sweet Potato Hills
This is my third time growing sweet potatoes. In 2010 I grew a 1 x 2 ft square of them in a deep new raised bed. I raised 8 pounds of sweet potatoes in that loose, rich soil. In 2011 I grew an 8 x 2 ft row of them in a deep old raised [...]
16 May
Garlic getting pretty tall
My garlic is 18 or 20 inches tall now and seems to be growing great! I expect to see the scapes show up any day now. It looks like I need to weed it again. I should have taken the time to re-cover that ground with grass clippings. Ah, well.
15 May
Mrs. Jimmy helping squish cabbage worms
I have had white butterflies (moths) flying around my cabbage a bit too much this spring, so I knew it was time to hunt down their eggs and offspring on the brassica crops. I have 15 cabbages and 4 brussels sprouts growing. My wife helped out: So far the damage was concentrated on the lower-most [...]
14 May
Jimmy Watering the Garden
Almost everything has been planted now. I just have green beans and cucumbers left to direct-seed. Also, I’m trying a little chin beard, but I’m undecided on it. I think I’m going to let it get a bit longer and see how it looks then.
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