I've been taking advantage of the shade in early morning and late afternoon to accomplish some work in the garden this week. I put away the row-cover structures from the winter garden, removed over-wintered plants that had bolted, cut lots of good greens, pulled the first radishes, weeded the beds, and got seeds in the ground for what's next.
Buttercrunch, red leaf, oak leaf … these lettuces are still tasting delicious. Believe it or not, the oak leaf variety had begun to taste bitter, but seems to have fixed itself. It's totally edible now. Go figure! We also have good spinach, arugula and peppery mizuna mustard to toss into the salad bowl. We're eating the last bit of kale. I'm happy recent temperatures have been on the cool side. Hot weather will mean the end of these tasty greens.
Aren't these "Garden of Eden" pole beans beautiful? I planted one packet of these seeds, filling out about one-and-a-half raised-bed rows. Finished the second row with "Rattlesnake" pole beans left over from last year. I hope they germinate.
In addition to the pole beans, I planted a bed of "Jade" bush beans and a bed of edamame. Also, three more rows of radishes - one row each of good old red radishes, mixed-color Easter Egg radishes, and a semi-long specialty radish called "Shunkyo". Tossed out a few extra salad turnip seeds, plus (looking ahead) sowed two rows of heat-loving okra.
Peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, "Savor" charentais melon seedlings … plus a few moon flower plants. I must prepare beds and get these in the ground soon.
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