June 9, 2015

The blasted rain still hasn't let up. The mornings are beautiful and sunny, but by lunchtime it's cloudy with rain soon to follow. 

Our new tomato plants are struggling. We haven't had enough sun to make them happy. So we don't have high hopes for them unless the weather pattern changes. Gee, I thought we were suppose to be in an El Niño! The eggplant and pepper plants look terrible. So we yanked them out. Time to try growing replacements.

The older sprouting broccoli is still producing small florets, though the plants are starting to look over mature, the younger broccoli looks super. 

So does the young cabbage. 

The spinach is starting to bolt, but it still is tender and lushly green. Must be because of all the rain. The garlic chives that we drastically cut back due to bugs is now growing well. It's about 10" high already. The chard looks like it's swallowing steroids! It apparently loves the wet, cloudy afternoons. 

We harvested potatoes today, a variety called Purple Majesty. They are real dark purple. And it's a great producing variety for our location. 

Here's today's harvest, not including the greens (kale, chard, spinach, broccoli greens, herbs). 

Today's lunch was made from the excess from last week's harvest. Pumpkin soup with chunky vegetables (pipinola, green onions, chives, carrots, broccoli). It was delish!