First Harvests and Edibles Update

Here are a few photos of some of my first harvests and vegetable garden.

These are radishes (French Breakfast) and sugar snap peas (Sugar Ann). I know I really should wait until these are a little bigger, but they’re so yummy when they’re tiny, too. I figure as long as I always have a few in the ground or on the vine left to ripen, it’s okay. I’ve put in more radishes, even though they bolt so quickly after June because I love the crunchy seed pods that they make after flowering. I also harvested a few daikon radishes. They look like little white carrots. Much sharper than I thought they’d be, though.

My “Gourmet Blend” of lettuce from Burpee didn’t germinate nearly as well as the two red varieties I got from Johnny’s. (Red Rosie and Mascara- shown here at the front of the bed.) I haven’t bought lettuce in weeks – there’s always enough for a salad now.

Did you know that red lettuce is considered an organic slug control solution? They recommend that you plant them as a border around your other crops. So far, mine are untouched by slugs.

Spinach was very sparse, but I always get a few leaves to add to the salad.

Tricolor Bush beans have produced a few handfuls of yellow and purple pods. More on the way.



The herbs are probably more successful than anything else I’m growing.
I love the Purple Opal basil, and have used lots of the lemon thyme, cilantro and mint (chocolate). I had to cut the lemon verbena back.


Tomatoes and peppers are flowering but not producing much fruit yet – I’m thinking maybe because we’ve had so much rain and not enough sun yet?
The cucumber are still not even big enough to climb, but I do see a few little cukes emerging. I’ve lost a lot of male zucchini flowers to slugs, but I can see that the females are coming along with tiny squash attached.


So far it looks like only two edamame have formed. No broccoli florets – again, could be a sun (or maybe a slug) problem. Here's the deck, where I used to plant tomatoes in pots. Now I'm using it for more ornamental plants.

We've had so much rain! and it's in the forecast for the next 8 days, too! Has it been raining where you are?