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| Daylilies have just begun blooming. |
May has been a month of harvesting the last of the winter garden and planting for summer. The fall and winter garden have pretty much wound down.
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| Garlic has been harvested |
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| Multiplier onions are next |
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| Sugar beets and kale are still growing. |
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| The kale is Lacinato, an heirloom variety and new for me. A keeper! |
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| It's mild, tender, and tasty. Here's some sauteed with carrots and onions. |
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| I don't remember what lettuce this is. but I want seed from it because it never got bitter. |
For the summer garden I've been busy getting growing things in the ground.
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| I had about three dozen tomato starts. |
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| They've all been planted and most are doing very well. |
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| I transplanted pepper starts too. |
Do you remember the survivor strawberries Dan found last January and I transplanted in the hoop house?
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| My one little bed has done very well. |
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| We didn't get many, but it was enough for a couple of batches of strawberry pancakes. |
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| Some of my potted potatoes. |
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| Potatoes plants grown from grocery store organic potatoes. |
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| I planted cowpeas in the potato bed. |
My rice is doing well, though I admit I pamper it. I worry that our current hot, dry spell may be unhappy for it.
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| Loto rice, a short variety. |
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| Cho Seun Zo Saeng grows taller. |
Other things that are doing well:
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| Crabapples |
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| Starks Moonglow Pears. They are sweet and spicy. |
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| Hops. I say it's doing well but I lost 2 out of 3 plants. Here's hoping this one is a female! |
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| One of our hay patches with sorghum-sudangrass. |
Some things haven't done very well.
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| Only a couple of cucumber plants came up so I replanted. |
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| I had to replant my corn too. |
Still to plant:
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| Sweet potato slips. They'll go in soon. The potted flower was a mother's day gift from my oldest granddaughter. |
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| This one was from my youngest granddaughter. |
I don't know what they are but it's perfect to grace my barn bench.
What's Growing, What's Not © May 2019
