A Short Break In The Weather

The weather forcast says we'll get a whole 48 hours or so without rain (finally), so I took the opportunity to finish up the last significant work in the garden. I turned over the last areas of the garden that hadn't been done yet, transplanted the last of the seedlings, and planted a bunch of seeds.

The seeds were edamame, lettuce, corn, melon, and cucumber. The only seeds I have left to plant are succession plantings of corn and the pole beans that will climb the corn. I'm planning to give each of the corn plantings a one week head start before I plant the associated beans.

Things have still been growing very slowly, but I do have a few pictures. The potatoes are starting to come up pretty well. You can see some lettuce plants on the left side of the picture. The biggest ones are almost 8 weeks old and should be ready to harvest, but they still have a while to go.

The onions seem like they are doing pretty well, but I wish they were a bit bigger. They will stop growing in a couple weeks and start making bulbs. The bigger the plant is when it starts making a bulb, the bigger the bulb will be.
Those pictures are some of the better looking parts of the garden. Much of it looks more like the picture below. That is the broccoli/cauliflower patch. There are three broccoli plants and two cauliflower plants, plus a few radish plants interspersed. The cauliflower plants are in especially bad shape. They got sunburnt when I first put them outside and the slugs and bugs seem to like them more than any of the other plants.