How’s are the 2017 gardens?
Every darn time I want to post on the topic—distraction. Here’s a couple 2017 photos before anything else wilts, gets eaten, falls over in a storm, or is incinerated by an asteroid. It’s a toss up every year as what works and what doesn’t. 2107 cucumbers were a bust, attacked by stinkbugs. Radishes and daikons all bolted due to temperature fluctuations. Voles proliferate. A piebald deer continues to snack along the fence.
JULY 7 [above] — onions (stuttgarter), wax romano bean (capitano), swiss chard (rhubarb), kale (roulette), lettuce (loma, matina, mainland girl. seven wonders, “A” choy, fragrant choi, manoa, okayama salad), collards (tiger, flash), daikon (good luck), baby corn (bonus), mustard (chirimen hakarashi), scallion (guardsman, summer island).
As one crop goes, the void is quickly filled with another.
JULY 7 [above] — lettuce (left—matina, right—loma )
By far, lettuce is what my friends and family enjoy most from my garden—hence all the cultivars.
JULY 23 [above] — lettuce (new yu mai), cabbage (taiwan express), eggplant (kamo, ichiban, harabegan, gretel, aswad).
We had a prolonged hot spell since July 7. Asian vegetable varieties perform in heat that send their European cousins into bolt.
JULY 23 [above] — scallion (summer island), baby corn (bonus), collards (tiger, flash), kale (roulette), parsnip (gladiator).
Voles, voles, and more voles…
This year the smoke bomb were a waste. Then I dug a trench, which help the buggers at bay for just three days. Then Patty set traps: fifteen beasties by day three of trying something new.
Spot was carried off by a coyote. We forgot to pen the ducks up and at 10:00 I heard a noise, and ran out to chase the beast. It was a young pup that, now startled, ran off without its bounty. For the last month we’ve doctored big puncture wounds on Spot's back and belly.
The coyotes have never come this close before.
S-M
Every darn time I want to post on the topic—distraction. Here’s a couple 2017 photos before anything else wilts, gets eaten, falls over in a storm, or is incinerated by an asteroid. It’s a toss up every year as what works and what doesn’t. 2107 cucumbers were a bust, attacked by stinkbugs. Radishes and daikons all bolted due to temperature fluctuations. Voles proliferate. A piebald deer continues to snack along the fence.
JULY 7 [above] — onions (stuttgarter), wax romano bean (capitano), swiss chard (rhubarb), kale (roulette), lettuce (loma, matina, mainland girl. seven wonders, “A” choy, fragrant choi, manoa, okayama salad), collards (tiger, flash), daikon (good luck), baby corn (bonus), mustard (chirimen hakarashi), scallion (guardsman, summer island).
As one crop goes, the void is quickly filled with another.
JULY 7 [above] — lettuce (left—matina, right—loma )
By far, lettuce is what my friends and family enjoy most from my garden—hence all the cultivars.
JULY 23 [above] — lettuce (new yu mai), cabbage (taiwan express), eggplant (kamo, ichiban, harabegan, gretel, aswad).
We had a prolonged hot spell since July 7. Asian vegetable varieties perform in heat that send their European cousins into bolt.
JULY 23 [above] — scallion (summer island), baby corn (bonus), collards (tiger, flash), kale (roulette), parsnip (gladiator).
Voles, voles, and more voles…
This year the smoke bomb were a waste. Then I dug a trench, which help the buggers at bay for just three days. Then Patty set traps: fifteen beasties by day three of trying something new.
Spot was carried off by a coyote. We forgot to pen the ducks up and at 10:00 I heard a noise, and ran out to chase the beast. It was a young pup that, now startled, ran off without its bounty. For the last month we’ve doctored big puncture wounds on Spot's back and belly.
The coyotes have never come this close before.
S-M
