Sunday, August 14, 2011

Yet another garden update

A random closeup shot of ripe edamame on the plant.
Here are the fall greens that are coming along nicely. There is arugula, lettuce, rapini, and pak choi. They sure are doing a lot better than the same seeds in the spring.
Sad looking tomato plants in the topsy-turvy that are somehow producing tomatoes.
The first melon. I have high hopes for at least the flavor of these melons if not the quantity.
Harvest of the day. Broccoli, a couple small bell peppers that have blemishes, edamame, and a couple red popper peppers. I tried one of the red poppers and it just tasted like a red bell pepper to me.
The garlic and onions have been curing/drying in the garage for the past few weeks are done now.
Here's what they look like after the tops were cut off and the dirt gently brushed off. Almost two pounds of garlic. Two pounds of red onions, and almost 5 pounds of yellow onions.
Here is the garden during a downpour. I took this moments before it started hailing. There was a little bit of hail damage on the baby greens, but I think they'll be ok.

The next day I took a look at one of the oldest ears of corn and realized that it was borderline overly ripe. Looking at a couple of other ears, they looked ready to pick also. These ears almost look respectably sized, but it turns out there is a lot of empty space inside those husks. Some of the ears clearly didn't get pollinated as well as they could have been, even though I manually pollinated all the ears for the first few days that each ear emerged.

Here is what they look like inside. Hmm...I've seen bigger ears of corn. On the other hand, the reviews came back overwhelmingly positive for the flavor and texture.

After another rainstorm, I looked at the corn and found that the bean plants have broken the tops of some of the corn plants over. This 3-sisters thing is a terrible idea. I don't know what those indians were thinking. If I ever grow corn again, I will not be growing it together with climbing beans. Its only the top foot or so that is bent over, so hopefully it won't stunt the rest of the corn ears that are growing. These rainy days have been pretty common lately. In the last 17 days it has rained 4.79 inches. In the previous 60 days before that it rained 2.02 inches. On the one hand, I haven't had to water the garden at all in the last couple weeks, but on the other hand, yesterday I had to mow my lawn for the first time in literally two months.

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