My first garlic scapes have arrived - these come mostly from the faster growing Porcelain varieties. The red russian garlic that I usually grow is just starting to show signs of scapes and are close to half the thickness in the stalk. But lots of time to go.
And more greens. The picture of the large basket shown above was taken before I cleaned and split everything out. It includes black and white russian kale, over a pound of spinach, and another basket of lettuce greens.
I've been working long days on a project for some time, often getting home in the dark (so my apologies if I'm not on top of comments whether it is my blog or many of you whom I follow regularly). The gardens are generally full of weeds and I usually only have a short time early in the morning for watering. But despite all of that, with the temperatures and regular (though short) watering schedule, everything still seems to do be doing pretty well.
If I can keep this up, I should have peppers from the greenhouse soon (already have plenty of unripened peppers on the plants as well a very few green tomatoes). The squash plants are just getting underway as are the carrots and beets. Potato plants are flowering and I have plenty of herbs for the picking. I'm also somewhat surprised that the few cabbage and broccoli plants I have are still holding up in this heat wave we are having.
I'm looking forward to seeing what other gardeners are doing this week by linking in to the Harvest Monday posts hosted by Our Happy Acres. Check it out!
Greens and scapes are always good! You are ahead of me on peppers. I have blooms but not many setting on just yet.
ReplyDeleteI started my peppers really early this year so definitely have peppers on a handful of plants. But also plants with nothing yet so we'll see how it goes overall.
DeleteThat's a nice basket of greens, considering the weather you have been having. Sounds like the garden is doing OK with just a little watering. The weeds will wait.
ReplyDeleteAlthough they slow down growth of the veggies (and suck up some nutrients) I find weeding when they are bigger a much easier task. So a bit of good and bad about the weed situation.
DeleteAhh...scapes! You know, I saw a few coming up last week, but haven't checked since then. For some reason, they seem to be blending into the foliage of the garlic much more than usual this year & I really had to search to see them that first time. I better get up there and look again as I have a feeling that they may be more than ready (and hopefully not too tough yet!).
ReplyDeleteWow - baby peppers & tomatoes already! No signs yet on mine, although a few flowers have finally appeared.
Those scapes sneak up fast on you for sure. Yes, I'm pretty thrilled about having an early start with some peppers already!
DeleteYour peppers are far ahead of mine, the plants are barely large enough to start blooming! But I have found some tiny green cherry tomatoes already. I hope your project ends soon so you can enjoy the summer garden, but as Dave said, the weeds will wait.
ReplyDeleteScape and greens are really nice. Glad you have peppers on the way; I can only dream about mine at this stage.
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