Garden update

[ltmurnau]

Thanks for the reminder rosminah.

Everything is growing great guns, except for the carrots! The day or two of acceptably hot weather over the weekend helped to start things over again. I've had to pull lots of poppies, which in some places are crowding out the young vegetables.
The potatoes in the tires are doing great, and the taller snow pea plants are almost 2 feet tall.
Spinach plants are healthy but still small. Haven't bolted yet, and if the summer continues cool I won't have to worry about it anyway.
Corn is about a foot tall, and the cucumbers and zucchini are doing fine.
I think I will have loads of zucchini all ready at the same time, like always, and have to find homes for them.
Watermelon vines are growing but are still tiny - we need really hot weather for them to get to any size and bear fruit.
But I wish we'd have hot summers again. I miss them.

Akito arrives in ten days!
It will be a busy time, but lots of fun I think.

Comments

[rosminah.livejournal.com]

Yummy garden updates!
What is your cue for harvesting the potatoes? I've done mine after the flowers just start going over. But my mother asked me when is harvesting time and I couldn't tell her if mine was a good time. I never really thought about it.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I read that the time to harvest the potatoes is after the flowers have gone (had to estimate last year, since the #$^**%^ deer ate all the flowers, and the stems down to stumps). Be sure to arrange them in the sun for an hour or three to let the skins toughen before storing them away.