A Late Garden Update

I wrote this post two weeks ago and forgot to hit publish. Oops! Much has changed since then so I will need to update again soon.

Lots has changed since the last garden update over a month ago. I apologize for the pictures, the light was not making it easy to take pictures.

We had a huge freeze and ended up losing the sugar snap peas since we could not cover them on the trellis, so we have replanted these. We also had damage to lots of plants and had to cut off leaves, but didn't actually lose anything else. The broccoli and cauliflower survived and we harvested those heads, but they did not grow as large as the first heads that we'd obtained before the freeze.


Small bed: romaine, spinach, mesclum, chard, leeks, garlic, strawberries and snow peas.

The lettuce and spinach are still growing great! Since we are at the end of the planting time for lettuce here, we are starting to harvest the outside leaves of romaine rather than harvesting whole heads. One of our heads is starting to grow really tall, going to seed maybe? Hopefully the others don't follow. It's not that warm yet!


Large bed: onions (white bermuda), carrots, tomatoes (several varieties), romaine (parris island), shallots, snow peas (oregon) and potatoes (red pontiac and yukon gold).  Not up yet: purple top turnips, armenian cucumber, green beans.

This weekend we planted warm weather crops: tomatoes, squash, cucumber, chard, and green beans. I've been trying to grow turnips, but something keeps eating them so this time we planted tons of seeds, hoping some seedlings survive. I also planted potatoes and onions in early February and the potatoes are starting to pop up.

Our desires for plants have overshot the space in our garden, so we are container gardening some. We have squash in huge containers, herbs of course, and I even found a small container variety of cucumber that is supposed to mature in 53 days. Here's hoping!



Garden harvest in last 6 weeks (ballpark):
2 heads romaine plus 5 cups (parris island)
20 cups mesclum salad mix
30 cups spinach (japanese giant and tyee)
1 cup chard
1/2 cup sugar snap and snow peas
1/2 cup green onion
2 heads cauliflower
2 heads broccoli
20 cups broccoli and cauliflower leaves (we souped these)
2 somewhat small carrots (we are kind of giving up on these guys)

This is our all local salad beets, carrots and tomatoes from the farmers market, lettuce and green onion from our garden.The lettuce and spinach have been producing like crazy and will definitely plant again. The cauliflower and broccoli take up a lot of room and in my opinion, not worth the room. I would be interested to try carrots again when they are not in the shade, but we haven't gotten much from those either.