Things are heating up here in the Seattle area… The temperature actually rose to 80 degrees on Tuesday… Shocking I know…
Despite the heat… I was finally able to transplant the last of my summer seedlings into the garden.
I finally wised up and started cucumbers in pots rather than let the seeds rot in the ground with all the rain we had been having…
I thought Summer was never going to arrive there for awhile…
I picked my first Kohlrabi… I wasn’t sure if I was suppose to eat the leaves (apparently I’m suppose to)…
So I feed them to Black Fatty and crew… They were devoured in about 3 minutes… But for the Kohlrabi bulb itself… I peeled the skin and sliced it up… I thought the unusual vegetable tasted like a cross between a spicy radish and raw cabbage. Not my favorite thing in the world… but interesting. And since I have more growing in the raised garden beds… I’ll eat them… I just don’t think I’ll plant them again next year.
But tomatoes… Hmmm… I’ll never stop planting those. I currently have about 5 or 6 plants with green fruit on them…
The rest… well… the plants are much smaller…and have a long ways to go…
The peas on the other hand… should be ready to harvesting in a few days…
And the cabbage? I’d say about 2 maybe 3 weeks… In fact I should start thinking about planting new flat of cabbage seedlings for fall.
And I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to get started on planting #5 (or is it 6?) of the green beans.
However the Walla Walla onions… Well… I still I need to find the time to thin those… Otherwise I won’t have any. And that would be tragic. They’re a necessity for my cucumber, tomato and onion salads I look forward to every year.
So how about you? What’s growing well in your backyard this week? Anyone harvest a tomato yet?
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