Do you ever grow stuff just so they can be added to the compost pile? Apparently I do sometimes, such as the carrots and cauliflower that were harvested over the weekend. It was so ridiculous, that the harvest wasn't even added to the yearly weight total. Check out these pitiful looking carrots below....
Photo below - here's the cauliflower with the leaves pulled away from the head. In reality, it's beyond my logical undersatanding why it failed.......
Photo below - but, all is not about gloom and doom in the garden - in fact, everything else is doing spectacular at this point. See the little Stupice tomato in the photo below? It's highly possible that this little fella will be edible before June....
Also, the onion bulbs continue to get bigger, and no signs of premature bolting is evident so far....These onions will be a great addition to the homemade salsa later in the season...Fertilization is still being applied at least twice per week to make the bulbs get larger, and the rest is up to Mother Nature.
In other news the little baby birds are getting bigger by the day, and I expect a first flight might take place in less than 2 weeks. I'll really have to keep an eye on Jude during this time, because she'll wanna play with them probably....
Also, the blackberries are in full bloom now, and will be ready to pick in around 5 more weeks, hopefully. I'm ready for a new batch of jam, and a few cobblers too...
Lastly, a trip out of town will be necessary to do some training for work, and hopefully things will continue to thrive in my 4 day absence. I'm sure it'll be just fine, but can't help but worry about it....
Take care, and happy gardening
EG
10 comments:
Those onions look wonderful. I just wish my onions would grow. They didn't like going into the garden, but they seem to be getting better now.
Oh yes, we've created gourmet compost when that happens,although now we give them to the chickens, which ameliorates some of the sting!
Those carrots look just like the ones I tried to grow in the cold frames over the winter! Your cauliflower bolted for some reason. Maybe it was extreme fluctuations in temperatures.
I am so so jealous of that mater and those onions!! I can't believe that you have a tomato already and those onions are huge!!
Good work!!
I can never make cauliflower work either.
Safe travels, EG!
Good lookin' carrots, EG! Maybe you should give my seed mats a try ;-)
The onions are looking great. Mine are way behind this year, I'm not even pulling any for salads yet.
I have not mastered cauliflower either, but this year I grew Di Cicco broccoli, which has lots of side shoots instead of one main head, and that did okay.
I am about to give up on carrots after the puny tasteless things I composted over the weekend. I do love growing the small round carrots though--so cute, and much less tempera
mental!
Have a good trip.
My husband just got our onions planted...
Sorry to see your carrots didn't work out. What variety was this that you planted? Mine are pretty small too this year.
Kris - I really don't remember what variety they were, just some old seeds that were laying around.
My broccoli last year looked as pitiful as your cauliflower did. And out of 5 broccoli plants, only 1 produced a crown to eat. So the others I had to chuck into the compost bin. Talk about annoying.
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