I don't like to start off a post on a sour note, but I have to rant. The weather has been so non-garden friendly, with cold temperatures and rain, that so many planting tasks have been put off. Today I will finally get a chance to transplant tomatoes, and the plants have gotten quite leggy. Peppers, eggplants, squash, and beans will have to wait at least another week. The plants are enormous.
But at least I have some harvests to share, leading off with arugula/rocket. I took a light snipping, and they wonderfully augment our salads (with store-bought lettuce for now).
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| 'Ice Bred' arugula |
Up until that, asparagus was the only thing coming from the gardens. Fresh asparagus is a treat, but like any treat, it can lose its "treatyness" after a while, so we've been giving it away too.
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| Fresh asparagus |
We first planted asparagus when we moved here about 15 years ago, and the plants are starting to age a little. Some time after, I supplemented with some "Sweet Purple" crowns. They never really thrived, and we only got a couple of spears, like what's on the bottom of this picture:
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| Asparagus, featuring 'Sweet Purple' |
That's really all the gardening I can report now, but I wanted to share a photo captured by my TrailCam, and extremely handsome Eastern Coyote, who seems to be saying "I'm sexy and I know it."
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| Eastern Coyote |
Thanks for reading, and I'll be back when I have more to report. Thanks to Dave at HappyAcres.blog for continuing to host Harvest Monday.
