Garden 2008

This is my first post this year about my garden. I planted at the end of April. My goal this year with my garden blog is to do weekly up dates of the garden.

The last of the Beans

That's right my green beans are done. I picked the last of them today 2lbs.
i guess if i want beans I'll steal some from the neighbor or from the kid below.

2nd and 3rd cabbage

The 2nd and 3rd cabbage have been picked. The 2nd cabbage was 5lbs and the 3rd was 4lbs not bad but nothing like those huge heads they get in Alaska. Tomorrow night we are going to have corned beef and cabbage i can't wait.

I found this great illustration of a cabbage on the web and since i didn't have a photo of 2nd or 3rd i got this. The artist name is Susannah Blaxill and this is her website http://blaxill.com/gallery_bk5.htm

Planted leeks,collards and lettuce

I have started on my fall crops. I have never planted this late but here in Seattle we don't really get that cold. So leeks are 130 days they should be ready somewhere around late November. Leek soup for thanksgiving? Vates Collards 75 days and the Prizehead lettuce around 50 days.



My dill has germinated they should be ready just in time for my pickles

Carrots

The last of my carrots are ready but i have planted more 2 double rows so we should have more carrots coming up in 75 days.

We have BEETS

The beets are ready now. I don't really like beets but my in laws do so i planted 2 rows of them. Glen wanted to boil them but i think that my wife wants to make Russian Borscht. I might try it. i also have yellow beets and stripe beets growing in the garden.

Oreo

Oreo is a sneaky little dog. I was picking veggies from the garden and i came inside to see if the wife was home from the "store" yet she was not. And here comes this dog licking her chops what's up little dog? She is always hungry i think maybe she smells food on me. so i gave her a bean. No problem i have 40 plants she can have all the beans she wants just not my carrots. Last year she was in the garden pull carrots out and having a feast. They were bigger then her but she ate them.