Blogs posts have been slowed lately due to salmon harvest. This week I will be posting twice.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Finally, we have had some nice warm weather and I wore shorts for three days, the weather still has been predominantly cold and wet. Meanwhile, many of you suffer a heat wave.
The weather has resulted in some of the best pac choi harvest of the season.
Many of our oriental greens love this weather. We are now seeing broccoli flowers and cabbage is forming heads. We are eating out of the garden every night. Salads with many flavored greens, tomatoes, and zucchinis abound. This past weekend we had a frittata with many greens and fresh local eggs.
Tonight we hard a wonderful grilled pac choi with red chili paste.
In town many fellow gardeners are eating strawberries and broccoli. We are a week to two weeks behind leaving up here at 1300 feet.
This week we will harvest golf ball size beets out of the hoop house. Next year, I am expanding the hoop house to 24 feet long. This appliance has proven itself this year. Every plant in there is growing at a incredible rate and they are very healthy. The carrots I planted in the hoop house are doing fine and may surpass the carrots planted outside, even though they were planted three weeks later. I have been harvesting bunching onions and onions from sets that are the size of a golf ball.
The compost is constantly cooking; occasionally I stir the compost to keep it alive. It is great to see the potatoes at the bottom of the primary composter growing better than those in the garden.
I am still planting. The third planting of pac choi, cilantro, and romaine lettuce went into the garden. Radishes were planted in the new cold frame, unfortunately the cat dug them up, remember to kitty proof new beds. The first radicchio starts are coming up, as well as basil and more cilantro.
The basil in the basil cold frame is doing exceptionally well, the walls of water have had temperatures of 120 degrees F and the soil temperature remains at 80 degrees F.
In the greenhouse the beans have started flowering, some of the plants are five feet tall. I provided more strings hung from the ceiling to provide support for the runners. The cucumbers have pinky size fruit. Again, they are least a week or two behind. I do believe this has been the coldest summer we have seen since we have gardened.
In the garden the peas are not complaining, we have flowers and I have pulled off the Reemay that protects them from the birds. They are now four to five feet tall.
The highlight are the garlic plants, they appear to be doing better than last year. Parsnips are about two inches tall in the pig garden. The beets and the carrots are thinned. I have several different plantings and it will be interesting to see how this works with it being such a limited growing season.
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