I haven’t harvested much this season at the moment, but there are many more things that are getting ready for harvest time. Tomatoes are producing flowers, beans are climbing the ropes, lettuce is flourishing, and broccoli is next on the list. It is almost the peak of garden season and in about a month I should be harvesting the bulk of the fruits of my labor. (more…)
So far I have been picking lettuce both Ruby glow and iceberg, but today I finally got to pick something new for the season. The very first zucchini of 2016 was recorded this morning in my gardening journal. It weighed three pounds and looks to be used within the next couple of days.
I also picked the most amount of leaves this morning from my iceberg lettuce patch. My Ruby glow hybrid looks like it is going to seed very soon. It is not surprising since these plants do not like the heat and it has been very warm for them over the past couple of weeks. (more…)
Today was a good day to do another harvest of my iceberg lettuce. Many of the lower leaves have reached the peak of how big they were going to get and this is when I like to pick them. I picked several leaves and most of them were very large which I am happy about.
Today made a perfect day to pick them due to the rain they received early this morning. I like to pick them after a rain because this will help the plant grow more leaves after I pick the ones that are ready right now. (more…)
I have been pretty much weeding the entire garden this week and I wanted to wait until I completed that before writing another post, but instead I will give you a quick update on the garden instead.
I started with picking some of my Ruby glow lettuce earlier in the week and that was very exciting since last year I didn’t get as much as I would have liked. The first harvest I had from them yielded me 65 leaves. This is just short from my iceberg lettuce harvest. (more…)
Just wanted to update you on what has been going on with my garden over the past week. So far I have only been picking my black seeded Simpson lettuce at the moment which is a great iceberg type lettuce. It The lettuce has been growing quite well and the leaves have grown to large sizes.
I am very happy about this because last season I didn’t grow any and I definitely missed out on their great flavor. I still have not picked any of the ruby glow hybrid leaves yet, but they are not growing as fast as my iceberg lettuce. Granted these are romaine type leaves and I will have to pick them differently than my iceberg type leaves. (more…)
I had ten more tomatoes that were still in pots and continuing to grow, but starting to look like they were becoming pot bound. This is something to avoid when growing indoors and since they had grown as far as they could in the containers I thought it would be best to place them in the garden right away.
I have over twenty tomato plants that are either steakhouse, Roma, or cherry tomatoes. I should have more of the super sauce Roma plants than any of the others because I planted all 25 seeds that came in the packet and only a few of steakhouse and cherry. Hopefully more sauce to be made this season. (more…)
This week has been quite interesting with all the sprouting of many of my seeds that were grown this past month. I am finally seeing spinach beginning to grow and it only took the entire month of March to do so. It would be better if they started sprouting a week or two ago, but it is better late than never.
Most of my flowers have began sprouting including sunflowers, calendula, Queen Anne’s lace, amaranthus, cosmos, dill, alyssum, and much more. Both lettuce types have began sprouting as well. (more…)
