It's Been Too Long!

Five days without an update. Really, I haven’t been spending nearly enough time in the garden. The holiday weekend was busy with other things (like Margaritas), and of course, there is the rain factor. Thankfully, I have read that the rain problem is not limited to my little garden, but spread all across the northeast.

Nevertheless the vegetables are growing! We finally hilled the potatoes on Sunday – there were no flowers to be seen yet, so I hope we were not too late. And we began to devise a plan for staking the peppers with bamboo stakes and string, but it didn’t pan out too well. And I did a little weeding…much more needed asap.

In terms of food stuffs, we have been sampling the absolutely amazingly delicious shell peas while we wait for enough to ripen to make a meal out of. Kevin does not like peas so he was skeptical of my desire to grow them, but one taste of these beauties and he is hooked now. He said that they tasted just like what his Uncle used to grow. Such sweet treats. We will definitely be growing these again, perhaps as soon as the Fall.

We also tasted some broccoli buttons (at least I think that is what they are called). The heads of broccoli started to separate from tight clusters, got taller and looked stretched out – also were going to flower. So we ate them before they could do so. What is the deal with that? Are we supposed to cover the heads with the leaves?