quasar's Blog

It would have probably been a better idea to have started this blog at the beginning of the gardening season but I just didn't think about it then. 

It has been a fun and productive year so far.  I don't know which I enjoy the most,  working the garden or eating the results.

So far this year we have had,  lettuce,   five or six different varieties,  onions,  kale,  mustard greens,  zucchini squash,  Swiss chard,  radishes and banana peppers and spinach. 

Hopefully this coming week we will pick our first green tomato and yes I do like fried green tomatos,  having been rasied in the south that is a down right delicacy.

This afternoon I made my second planting of lettuce.  The weather hasn't been too hot so I hope I won't  have germination problems.  I have it planted in containers and in an area that doesn't get much sun.    This is the lettuce that will take me into fall of the year.  I planted salad bowl,  red sails and butter crunch varieties.  I will probably make another planting in late August.  I almost always plant too much lettuce and wind up giving a lot away,  but that's o.k. ,  isn't it?

The lettuce I planted this spring is nearing marturity  but hasn't started to bolt as of yet. 

That is enough for my first entry.