The best way I have to describe our recent weather is that it's been all over the place. Fluctuating from unseasonably warm to unseasonably cold. We've had haze from the smoke of the Canada wildfires. The one constant is rain, lots of rain. If crops don't seem to be moving along, I have to think it's the weather.
You'd think that the cooler temperatures would been good for the brassicas, at least, but I'm not getting the results I expected. Maybe it was too cool? Case in point, I scaled back growing Asian greens, and only started 3 baby bok choy plants. Only one survived, and I picked it this week. This is an open-pollinated version called "Milk."
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| 'Milk' baby bok choy |
I also pulled the first radishes.
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| French Breakfast and Cherry Belle radishes |
And I did several trimmings of the arugula (rocket).
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| 'Ice-bred' arugula |
We don't have any lettuce that's quite ready for picking, but it should be soon. In the meantime, at least we can claim radishes and arugula to augment our salads. Two peppery things!
In Wildlife Notes, TKG snapped this super-zoomed picture out the bedroom window.
It's a Red-tailed Hawk. Buteos like this species are not known to be big bird-hunters, preferring small mammals as food, but still, it's not the kind of thing you want to see on a birdhouse. Maybe he was waiting for something to pop out.
At least the gardens are fully-planted now, despite the rain. Here's hoping the crops will take off soon. Thanks for reading, and thanks again to Dave at HappyAcres.blog for hosting Harvest Monday!
We've had the haze from the wildfires over here too. And like you, too much rain! My brassicas in the main garden area have been struggling. That is a great shot of the hawk! They visit here too, and the smaller birds all skee-daddle when they show up.
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