We harvested our carrots, the last of the sugar snap peas (then tore down the vines), and the kale and collards that have basically been serving as caterpillar food (though there were some good leaves left for eating!). Which left us with some space to plant. We put in more carrots where we harvested the carrots, a couple of rows of broccoli (for, if all goes well, a fall harvest), and two kinds of dill in a pot and in the window box from which we harvested the end of our red kale. For posterity’s sake, you can see pics below of what we’ve started.
UPDATE: For those who might be wondering, the dill is in the pot and the window box along the fence under the herb pockets; we (meaning, expert helper Sadie and I) also moved the three African marigolds, which were getting huge and (my experts — a.k.a., Deb and Fred — tell me) were both shading the other plants and taking nutrients from the soil that might, ahem, be better used by the tomatoes and the eggplants. Though those flowers are pretty cool looking, or so I think . . .
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- Planted in late June adjacent to the lettuce in the small bed and along the inside-the-play-area edge of the green stripe bed. With 55 days to harvest, should be eating them in August! “Tender, stringless, and juicy, the gold, royal purple and deep green crunchy pods will cook up sweet and tender to highlight summer meals.”
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- Planted tonight in what had been a smallish, empty clay pot. Seedlings are supposed to emerge in 10-21 days, with harvest in 40-60 days, so August! We can also harvest seeds to use in pickling . . .
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- Planted tonight in what had been the red kale window box. They’re supposed to emerge in 20-25 days, and reach 30-36 inches in height! Apparently, these are good for pickling because of “early, abundant seed production.” Maybe we can compare with our other dill in August . . .
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- Planted tonight where we harvested our first crop of carrots. 10-20 days to germinate, 88 days to harvest . . . so October, I guess? Our seeds will apparently give us “eye-catching, rich harvests of crisp, smooth, evenly cylindrical roots that reach a full eight inches in length.” The carrots will be both “sunny yellow” and “bright orange”!
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- Planted tonight in the area where we harvested our first broccoli, collards, and kale. The seeds are supposed to germinate in 5-10 days, 60 days to harvest from transplant. The seeds we have are a mix of “great-tasting, high-yielding hybrid varieties with early, mid, and late season maturities for the longest possible harvests.”
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