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gardeningAte my first fresh strawberry from my garden this morning - oh dear lord, the flavor nearly made me swoon! I marvel at how huge the flavor is compared to anything you can buy in the store. 100% sweet, with not even a hint of tartness. Much softer than the cardboard crunchy commercial varieties; deep garnet red all the way through. In another week or two I'll be gathering them by the bucket ... the intent is to put a bunch in the freezer, but I'm pretty sure the first couple of pints (quarts?!) won't even make it out of the garden. :-)
I'm already harvesting onions, two kinds of lettuce, spinach, parsley, cilantro, snap peas, and bok choi. I'm not far from having chard, and the first cabbages are starting to head up. I've got second plantings of all those things in various stages of coming up.
Planted all my squashes this morning: acorn, spaghetti, cukes, zuccs, pumpkins, cantelope and watermelon. I don't have room in my yard for a big open area to let them ramble, so most are planted at the corners of raised beds beneath espaliered trees (plum, peach, apple) or trellised vines (grapes, kiwi); I'll train the squash vines to stay on top of the raised bed and they'll become a sort of uber-ground cover to the other plantings as the summer goes by. The exception are the cukes, which are planted at the base of their own trellis.
Next weekend I'll plant tomatoes, peppers, basil and green beans.
Woohoo! Bring on summer!
[note: I've had a series of disappointing garden failures as well this season, but it somehow doesn't seem right to post about those on The Day of the First Strawberry! :-) ]
I'm already harvesting onions, two kinds of lettuce, spinach, parsley, cilantro, snap peas, and bok choi. I'm not far from having chard, and the first cabbages are starting to head up. I've got second plantings of all those things in various stages of coming up.
Planted all my squashes this morning: acorn, spaghetti, cukes, zuccs, pumpkins, cantelope and watermelon. I don't have room in my yard for a big open area to let them ramble, so most are planted at the corners of raised beds beneath espaliered trees (plum, peach, apple) or trellised vines (grapes, kiwi); I'll train the squash vines to stay on top of the raised bed and they'll become a sort of uber-ground cover to the other plantings as the summer goes by. The exception are the cukes, which are planted at the base of their own trellis.
Next weekend I'll plant tomatoes, peppers, basil and green beans.
Woohoo! Bring on summer!
[note: I've had a series of disappointing garden failures as well this season, but it somehow doesn't seem right to post about those on The Day of the First Strawberry! :-) ]