Posted on May 9, 2021May 9, 2021Bean sprouts (and their friends) Slippery silks pole bean are up in both beds 1 and 4 Marketmore 76 cucumber in bed 4. None of others up yet. Vaquero bean (a pole bean) in bed 1. Bolas maycoba bean next to lettuce leaf in bed 6. Greasy grits bean (a green pole bean) in bed 1 Mbombo beans (a bush type) in bed 5. Blue lake green bush (another bush type) in bed 5. Dutch corn salad greens beginning to make immature seeds. “hilled” potatoes with more dirt added, so they will grow more roots and thus more potatoes. Inca pea beans are the only ones not up yet. Oregon sugar pod peas all fruiting now with more flowers. The lettuce is thinking about bolting so I’m picking any that are growing taller.
Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021How can things grow this much in a week? Front yard edition Wow!! Rouge Vif d’Etampes squash seedling. The Brunswick cabbage apparently had enough and has gone straight to flowering. Dutch corn salad greens have bolted too. I got wild after seeing soil temperature is above 60°F and planted some beans and all the basil. Sedums are blooming! Thanks for these, Judy! I found surprise kale seedlings (two, the second is not pictured). I believe they are Russian red but I had thought they all got eaten so there’s no label anymore. Perennial coreopsis are big and just starting to bloom! Black coat runner bean making good progress at the base of a crepe myrtle. Mealy blue sage about to bloom. So many strawberries and there’s still more flowers! Sugar peas are blooming.