And Away We Go!

I was poking around in the garden this morning and I noticed that some of the radish roots had swollen visibly since I last looked closely at them a few days ago. So I decided to pluck a few of them out.

And tada! A few nice Easter Egg radishes. I haven't eaten any yet as I am saving them for the family for supper. I think I will incorporate their greens into my daily salad at dinner. This got me poking around at my other crops. I lifted one of my Mini Purplette onions to see if they had started to bulb. No luck but I think they are on their way as the root at the bottom is starting to thicken up a little more.

Actually, I am a little surprised. The bunching onions, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, beets and peas are all taking a little longer to mature than I would have thought. I think part of this is due to some of the cold spells we've had the last few weeks. And the other part is just that I am not patient. But at the beginning of the season when I was planning out all of my crops, I wrote down all the plant dates and the general harvest date depending on the particular crops Days to Maturity. Maybe I need to re-look at it to remind myself. And to keep even better notes next year.

While we are on reminders for next year, I should probably remind myself to just do traditional rows next time. I tried doing a double wide bed which is like two rows right next to each other with no walkway between. The theory is that you can plant more things since you aren't using earth to walk on. The reality is, at least for me, that it just makes it harder to reach certain spots for weeding without stepping on my crops. You live and you learn I suppose.

Things I still need to do? I need to finish cleaning out my full sun back bed in order to get the warm weather crops (tomatoes, basil, peppers, cucumbers, etc) put in. There is still a layer of leaves on it and some weeds are starting to get more prominent. Time to "dig in" and get it taken care of I suppose.

Until next time, I will leave you with a few pictures of my crops so you can see where they are at in their development.

Paris Market Carrots. They are the small round type

Mini purple onions

Ditto from above

Some of my lettuce. No worries. The stuff in the middle and to the right will be thinned soon. 

And here you will find some spinach which will also be thinned soon for my eating and their growing pleasure. 

This is some radishes with the newer ones coming up between them. They are also flanked by new spinach sprouts. 

Peas with lettuce growing between them. 

Same as above with a different angle. 

This would be more spinach and radishes. 

Cauliflower, broccoli, peas and a living mulch ground cover coming in.

My Chioggia beets coming in. I also have Golden beets growing as well but really the only difference is the stem is more yellow than red. Limited the repetitive nature, says the guy who has multiple pics of spinach and radishes. 

Oh look, more broccoli and cauliflower surrounded by spinach sprouts.