I planted broccoli, kohlrabi and brussel sprouts from plants I bought at the nursery. I've already harvest the broccoli heads and now I'm working on the little sprouts that come up from the stalks. These were put in at the end of March and these photos are from May 4th:
And this is May 16th:
I've harvested a couple kohlrabi as well (yummy) and I'm sure the rest will be harvested in the next couple weeks. By the end of June I expect the broccoli and kohlrabi plants will be gone, which is good because I have a couple volunteer potato plants coming up in the midst of them. I'm hoping it's the blue caribe potatoes that I planted their last year. I foolishly didn't save any seed potatoes and won't make that mistake again.
This year I'm growing potatoes in potato grow bags. Awesome idea! You roll down the bag and put some soil in, then as the plant grows you add more soil to the bag until you have it fully unrolled and full of soil. The potatoes grow on the stalk of the plant and with this method you get more stalk under the soil so there's supposed to be higher yields. To top it all off, no digging! When it's time to harvest, dump the bag out. This year I've planted kennebec, red pontiac, purple majesty and an irish rose fingerling. Here's the red pontiac and purple majesty and then next photo is the kennebec's on May 4th:
I planted the carrots, beets, and peas in March. Here they are with the overwintered leeks, and celery I put in as starter plants in March as of May 4th
And then again on May 16th
I planted everything I needed from the seed trays on the weekend of May 5th/6th and gave the rest of the starter plants to friends. These are catsup tomatoes planted with the green beans behind and spinach and basil interplanted around the tomatoes:
This is sweet banana peppers and eggplant with basil and spinach interplanted around them. At the other end of the bed I planted two zucchini hills and nasturtiums.
This is a picture from May 4th of the bed that has the asparagus and garlic from last year. In March I planted kale and romaine. Since this picture I've added carrots in around the romaine because the romaine will be gone by the time the carrots need space. I've also added, cucumbers to climb the fence and put my hot peppers here, hopefully far enough from my sweet peppers in the other bed that they don't cross pollinate. The hot peppers I planted this year are jalapeño, cajun, and poblano.
And last but not least is the herb bed. The oregano comes back on it's own every year and was huge so last weekend I trimmed it back and made a bunch of oregano pesto to put in the freezer. Oregano pesto is our favorite but it's the most work. Took and hour and a half to pick the tiny leaves off enough to fill a cake mixing bowl which then only produced 3 & 1/2 cups of pesto.... but delish!
This picture is from May 4th. In addition to the oregano is the sage which I severely cut back each year and still ends up huge. I've also added thyme, cilantro, dill and planted some summer savory seeds. No signs of the summer savory yet but the rest is looking good.
I'll have to catch up more later but this is a good start. Excited to harvest everything.
