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albionwood in norcalgardening

First meal from 2008 seeding

May 05, 2008 08:06

Last night's dinner was stir-fried vegetables, mostly from the garden. Nothing unusual about that, except it was the first harvest from this year's plantings: the bok choy and Michihli cabbage seeded in February, set out in March, is now mature. Predictably, it is trying to bolt, so we'll have to eat it up quickly. Favas are also coming on strong ( Read more... )

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greeklady May 5 2008, 17:06:26 UTC

I never got to my cauliflower in time before it went to seed. So right now I have tomatoes and a few carrots that are here still from last year. I am turning the soil tonight and hopefully putting in some plants and seed by the end of the week.

ex_serenejo May 5 2008, 17:47:27 UTC

I'm jealous. I don't have anything edible yet. I have carrot sprouts, and tiny lettuce sprouts, and the tomatoes and strawberries have flowers on them, etc., but nothing to eat, not yet. :-)

albionwood May 5 2008, 19:34:45 UTC

Well, I'm jealous of your carrot sprouts - the seed I sowed in March utterly failed to sprout. :( Must try again soon.

ex_serenejo May 5 2008, 19:47:55 UTC

It was kind of funny -- I took my visiting niece over to help me in my plot, and while I was getting the tools out of the toolbox, she "helped" by "weeding" all the carrot sprouts out of one square of my plot. Oops!

mactavish May 5 2008, 17:56:40 UTC

We have two small cauliflowers already, and are harvesting spinach hand-over-fist. the corn is a few inches high, as are the peas and beans. Everything else is coming along a bit slowly.

mactavish May 5 2008, 17:57:13 UTC

(Also: Thought of you when I was near Albion a few weeks back :) )

albionwood May 5 2008, 19:28:12 UTC

Aw, why didn't you stop by? We're only 15 minutes off Highway 1. Maybe next time? Lot of awesome birds here. :)

mactavish May 5 2008, 19:41:36 UTC

Aww :)

We were driving from Rio Dell to the bay area, via hwy 1, turning away from 101 at Leggett. That's quite a drive. :)

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albionwood May 6 2008, 03:39:03 UTC

mmmm, sugar snaps... which variety?

Cukes already? And pumpkin blossoms? Where are you, that you get such an early start?

I'm trying cukes thisyear for the first time, but am not holding out much hope. Too much cold wind here, I suspect. Punkins though, they do just fine!

I put garlic in last October so it is doing GREAT, in fact some of them are the size of leeks.