Twiggybet1's Blog

Things are coming along nicely...
Jun 4, 2008 | 11:32 PM PST

I don't remember which kind of lettuce this pic shows, but they are finally large enough to tell them from the weeds.  Now I need to finish weeding this area...

The peas are climbing the fence (as they should) and the beans are doing o.k.  Something has been nibbling on a few of them, though.  My guess is the pesty squirrels.

 The cabbage is filling out nicely, and the celery seems to be doing alright.  We are keeping our fingers crossed on that one. 

 

Here is one of the potato plants, just recently poking up out of the ground:

 

 This year we planted two varieties of beets.  The ones with the red in the leaves and stems are regular beets, the light green ones in front are supposed to be white beets.  Hmm, I wonder if the flavor is milder than the red ones?  If so, I may be able to make my family eat a little more of them.  In any case, I imagine that they would be less likely to stain things...

We also planted two varieties of radishes.  The taller ones are black radishes, and I haven't been able to harvest any of those yet.  The shorter ones are usual red ones, and I have been harvesting and replanting those.  We've been eating those as quickly as they can grow...

Guess what?  WE'VE GOT CORN!

I hope it gets to be at least knee high by 4th of July, the measure my Grandpa always went by.  It has been raining the last two days, so lets hope.

 I interplanted butternut squash and pumpkins between the rows.  These were seeds I saved from squash we grew last year and a pumpkin we bought around Halloween time.  So I have no Idea if the fruit is going to grow true to type or not.  I decided to interplant like this after reading a few articles on the subject.  This method is supposed to be helpful to the corn, using the sqush and pumpkins as a mulch, more or less, and (according to what I've read) any squash and pumpkins should be considered bonuses.

Now, If I could just keep up with the weeds!