Vegetable garden
Bok choy has begun to mature. So
me insect damage, but not too bad. Peas continue to do well and should begin producing in 2 weeks. Swiss chard should start maturing in about another week. Beets, which we thinned this weekend (hoping to avoid the overcrowded mess we had last year, are also doing well. The zucchini and string beans are both doing well, having just emerged from the ground. However, after seeing fairly extensive damage to the string bean leaves, we decided to fully cover it in row cover. (A week before, we covered half the garden and found the covered half doing better than the uncovered, with each leaf brighter and healthier.)
me insect damage, but not too bad. Peas continue to do well and should begin producing in 2 weeks. Swiss chard should start maturing in about another week. Beets, which we thinned this weekend (hoping to avoid the overcrowded mess we had last year, are also doing well. The zucchini and string beans are both doing well, having just emerged from the ground. However, after seeing fairly extensive damage to the string bean leaves, we decided to fully cover it in row cover. (A week before, we covered half the garden and found the covered half doing better than the uncovered, with each leaf brighter and healthier.)Just planted: eggplant, lima beans, hot peppers, tomatoes (small plants, which we bought from Marc Christo).
Waiting to see if the calendula, which I spread throughout the garden, will have an overall good effect on deterring certain pests.
Squash garden
Just planted: watermelon, butternut, buttercup, melon, pumpkin. Chose no row cover, as we found it not particularly effective at deterring “weeds.”
Flower garden
Calendula and bachelor button both continue to grow. Just noticed the gomphrena emerging. And planted lavender, which began to bloom almost immediately. Liatris is moving along, having reached three inches in height.
Just planted: Sunflowers (3 varieties), hyssop and borage.
Fruits
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Pear, plum and peach trees are all producing fruit this year, which was a big surprise. The pears are doing the best, with the most fruit. The biggest surprise was the plum tree, which needed a pollinator. Seems our bees found a good match for it, so now we have about a dozen fruits growing. The peach tree has about 7 peaches on it. Nearly half of the blueberry bushes are producing fruit, and so are our honeyberry bushes.
The grape vines are growing, albeit some more slowly than others, but we’re not expecting any fruit this year.
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