Today is the Summer Solstice. Sun up at 5:19 and will not set until 8:53. That means 15 hours and 34 minutes of daylight. Lovely.
The strawberries are now starting to ripen quickly. Will pick a bunch to have with breakfast and also dessert for dinner.
The beans I planted in Bed 3-Row 2 are just breaking the soil this morning. Nothing from the carrots in that bed yet but that is not surprising. Kohlrabi are getting larger and we can likely start to harvest a few of them this week. I have pulled another patch of spinach from the pea bed, weeded the little triangle and replanted with three varieties of lettuce.
Both brassica beds are doing just wonderful. The interplanted lettuce are getting larger so soon time to get them out of there. There has been no sign of Cabbage White Butterflies so I am thinking that I can roll up the fleece and put it away.
The garlic beds are doing well and now starting to produce scapes.
The lettuce, spinach and radish that I planted in the pea bed a week or so is now up. That bed has just been amazing. Will plan to have at least two of them for next year. I think that one bed alone will keep us in salading for most of the summer. The actual peas themselves are starting to fill out the pods. Not a lot of them though which is disappointing.
Potatoes are up in both beds and doing well.
Gladioli have finally broken soil in the diamond bed. The pineberries in that same bed are simply amazing. They are in flower and also sending out runners all over the place. I will cut off the runners but allow them to keep a few flowers just to get a taste of these lovely white berries.
Lots of new little shoots coming up in the Asparagus beds. Still working away at keeping those beds weed free.
Frank has been working his way along the Raspberry border and digging up everything that is in there, except the canes we brought from the old house. He is just past the halfway point. Foul job. I have yet to finish cleaning up the north side of this border (25% done) but will resume work this coming week.
Have two more beds to build and install in Row 3. Must finish clearing the last of the weeds on that ground first and remove all the straw. Have at least cleared the area beside the south fence to the end of Row 3. Must press on with that to the end of Row 5. Another foul job but must be done.
The strawberries are now starting to ripen quickly. Will pick a bunch to have with breakfast and also dessert for dinner.
The beans I planted in Bed 3-Row 2 are just breaking the soil this morning. Nothing from the carrots in that bed yet but that is not surprising. Kohlrabi are getting larger and we can likely start to harvest a few of them this week. I have pulled another patch of spinach from the pea bed, weeded the little triangle and replanted with three varieties of lettuce.
Both brassica beds are doing just wonderful. The interplanted lettuce are getting larger so soon time to get them out of there. There has been no sign of Cabbage White Butterflies so I am thinking that I can roll up the fleece and put it away.
The garlic beds are doing well and now starting to produce scapes.
The lettuce, spinach and radish that I planted in the pea bed a week or so is now up. That bed has just been amazing. Will plan to have at least two of them for next year. I think that one bed alone will keep us in salading for most of the summer. The actual peas themselves are starting to fill out the pods. Not a lot of them though which is disappointing.
Potatoes are up in both beds and doing well.
Gladioli have finally broken soil in the diamond bed. The pineberries in that same bed are simply amazing. They are in flower and also sending out runners all over the place. I will cut off the runners but allow them to keep a few flowers just to get a taste of these lovely white berries.
Lots of new little shoots coming up in the Asparagus beds. Still working away at keeping those beds weed free.
Frank has been working his way along the Raspberry border and digging up everything that is in there, except the canes we brought from the old house. He is just past the halfway point. Foul job. I have yet to finish cleaning up the north side of this border (25% done) but will resume work this coming week.
Have two more beds to build and install in Row 3. Must finish clearing the last of the weeds on that ground first and remove all the straw. Have at least cleared the area beside the south fence to the end of Row 3. Must press on with that to the end of Row 5. Another foul job but must be done.
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