Damn good year for our garden. We're in the midst of harvesting more peas than we can eat (lincoln peas are BY FAR our favorite but we're also havesting Tell Telephone, Sugar Snaps, and one other type). Raspberries are the same where we are simply trying to harvest fast enough. Strawberries were INCREDIBLE this year both in size and flavor. They're mainly done but we do have some ever-bearing that will go all summer.
Brocolli has been good this year along with the regular and easy-growing lettuce, spinich, kale, and arugula (favored by me and the liberal elite).
Carrots did really well and looked like grocery store quality. Beets are strong.
Potatoes are flowering right now and looking really strong. Probably time to mound them... again.
We are pulling our storage onions (from transplants) now and the ones we started from seeds (Walla Walla and Red Globe) are doing great. Garlic just got harvested and is drying. It looks amazing and is a huge improvement over last year where the wet June rotted most of it.
Squash, pumpkin, and zucchini look like Jurassic Park vegetables that might just try to eat you if you walk too close.
Tomatoes are there but not ripe yet. Lots of Sungolds along with some some heirloom varieties, including my favorite-named tomato, "Mr. Stripey".
All of the plants themselves look amazingly strong this year.
Blueberries are the one disappointment. I'm not sure what is wrong. The plants are find but actual fruit production is down from last year. I'm thinking that the birds already got to them? On the other hand, my young currants have been WAY better than last year.
My one remaining kiwi is growing like mad now. I had 3 and they all looked good at one point. Last fall, as it was starting to get cold, I had two of them turn almost black overnight. This spring, those 2 were dead. The one remaining one looked strong but then did the same thing. Recovered, then did it again on a cold night. Finally, that one has fully recoverd and is doing very well. The downside is that it is a lonely female and my male died. I figure if it survives another year, I'll get another male for it. No one has been able to explain the problems I experienced with the Kiwis as they are hardy to temps well below anything we'd ever see here.
Early season:
More recently:
Currants:
Pumpkins and zucchini leaves:
I can't explain this one. These are radishes all grown from the same seed packet. The larger, darker one was especially spicy:
One of our typical "Big Daddy" storage onions. Not particularly large but the quality looks good:
Dogs and gardens. Boris loves strawberries and peas.
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