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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Bolting Toward Summer
This is a baby bok choy that has sprinted toward setting seed, due to the recent warming days. Bolting causes a plant to become leggy, tough, and in certain vegetables, to become bitter. There wasn’t much to do, unless I … Continue reading
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Compounding the Work
When the row of beets finally started coming on strong, it needed to be thinned. Each beet seed is actually a compound seed, and can sprout multiple seedlings. Thinning helps to create enough room for the developing root. I didn’t … Continue reading
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Romancing the Radish
Spring has finally taken hold and radish seeds we started on Apr 26 are starting to show good growth. While weeding, I’ve been finding the seeds that strayed from the row have grown larger roots. I tried to replant these, … Continue reading
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A Bounty of Unintended Vegetation
Green sprouts everywhere, including a massive bounty of weeds. Too bad no one has “properly” marketed wild, organic microgreens at $20 per pound to the retail consumers. Some of the weeds that grow abundantly are edible, and is eaten in … Continue reading
Oh Snap, Are You Chiving Me?
Farmers and weather, they either worry about too much rain or too little rain. There was a cold spell last week, but I hope from here on out we are solidly past the last frost date for the area. The … Continue reading
A Slip Up
The sweet potato slips arrived this week, much to my surprise. They are a tropical plant and like temperatures above 70 deg F. They survived shipping from Maine, but within a day, started wilting. I put them in smaller containers … Continue reading
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