The Vegetables are Coming

The vegetables are coming! Thick and fast and organic and wonderful. I’ve frozen three gallons of chard and spinach and just dried a pint’s worth of oregano. I have been cooking up vegetarian dinners of chard, garlic and olive oil topped pasta that are so heavenly I crave more. Raw salads are the order of the day for lunch.

Here’s an update:

• The corn is knee high. Our friends the Hertzlers tell us that crows ate so many of their corn seed that they had to replant it and they lost a lot, but although I’ve seen crows studying the corn they didn’t touch ours yet. (hope I didn’t jinx myself here) (but I don’t believe in jinxes!)
• The cauliflower has actually started producing heads! I had huge leaves and no cauliflower, but I’ve never grown it before and I thought I was doing something wrong. Nope. It just takes a long time to develop.
• The tomatoes are all about 10 inches tall. Peppers are thriving. The eggplants look terrible! Something is eating the leaves, plus the cold snap in May really stunted them. Cucumbers have revived.
• The basils, rosemary, parsley, dill, chamomile, sage, chives, thyme, peppermint, stevia and sweet woodruff are growing like weeds! I have another tray of oregano sun drying on the porch.
• Onions are almost ready!
• The blueberry bush that died LIVES! It came back to life and now sports four jaunty leaves.
• Watermelons, cantalopes, squashes…they have lovely little leaves. Did you know that Moon & Stars Watermelon has green leaves with yellow specks, just like the fruits do? I didn’t know that. I thought mine was sick until a gardening friend reminded me that the fruit looks like that too!
• Beets are beeting…they’re about the size of golf balls now! The Bulls Blood beets, a Victorian heirloom, is much more robust than the Golden Beets.
• Turnips are turniping…they’re also about the size of marbles right now.
• We planted green bean seeds…not up yet.

Yes, I’ll get out and take pictures this week. I’m late on my flower garden progress report too! But I’ve been swamped with work….trying to find more freelance work takes time too.

Happy Wednesday!