It's sad. Really sad. The garden just isn't cooperating this year. Here's what's been picked thus far:
Asparagus: 4lbs consumed, likely 3-4 more lbs left in the garden. (Brad is the sole harvester/eater of the asparagus. Next Spring, I'll take over harvesting & blanch and freeze him some.)
Peas: 1 meal worth (for family of 5). Epic fail-my fault-bad trellis.
Onions: 3 pulled as green onions/scallions. 50 are in flower currently.
Chives: I cut some here, I cut some there. I have plenty to use if I want more.
Cilantro: 1 small handful--BUNNIES. 'nuf said.
Strawberries: 8lbs total.
Cucumbers: 0 (I counted 8 on 1 plant thus far---lots of blooms)
Tomatoes: 0 (lots coming!)
Broccoli: 0 BUNNIES!
Dill: 0 (I just don't know where it went! I'm guessing rabbits)
Green Beans: 0 (lots and lots of flowers!)
Garlic: 0. This one is a bummer-Brad mistakenly thought my cleverly placed garlic was grass & pulled it. (I had planted it along the very edge of a bed, probably 25 cloves' worth.)
I'm a little frustrated with the vegetable garden. I have to battle a LOT of weeds and grass infiltrating the beds and paths. I'm thinking we'll have to rip everything out this Fall, leaving only the strawberries and asparagus and rework the paths and beds.
I hoping the cukes, beans, tomatoes and beans will make up for the other lost crops. There's still a chance that the 3 remaining broccoli plants will pull through and produce this fall. We'll see.
Hi Dorothy;
ReplyDeleteI'm very curious about your green onions/scallions. I read they are biennials. Yurs are flowering? Will they self seed for next years crop? Have you done this in the past?
Alot of questions! LOL
Questions are good! I'm in MI, so a climate similar to you. Ideally, you plant onion "sets" in the Fall, late enough so a little root growth happens but little to no top growth. I plant in late Sept/early Oct. Then in the spring, they take off. You can harvest them before they set flower and get green onions/scallion or let them flower for full grown onions. (well, you can harvest them whenever you'd like!). I always pull them & they've never self-seeded for me. I just buy sets every year (they look like little teeny onions, usually 50 for a few bucks). I hope this helps :)
ReplyDeleteI tried planting tomatoes last month but they dried up because of the heat we had in the past couple of weeks. Now, I am trying to plant peppers and hopefully to have them at least produce their first fruits. Well, anyway, I hope the weather will be better.
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