I’m starting to get daily harvests and I could not be happier!
This was yesterday’s:
And then this was today’s:
I used all of this lettuce to make my lunches for the week.
I picked my very first strawberry on Thursday.
And since then, I’ve had more and more each day.
I think that I’ll be overrun with strawberries within the next week.
Peas are really ramping up. I think I’ll be able to start picking them starting tomorrow.
I was able to harvest all of these radishes from my school’s garden. I gave each of my student helpers a radish to take home. I hope they were as excited as I was!
The roses are in full bloom, though I haven’t had the courage to cut any yet.
Raspberries are looking great! There are even more than I thought!
I have a banana pepper! It’s still super small but it won’t stay that way for long.
Our cherokee purple tomato plants have a few flowers. They are much stronger than last year’s plants.
All of our melons are sprouting. We won’t be able to harvest from these for a few months but it’s still so excited to see.
Lastly, a few of our pepper plants were eaten by cut worms. They like to “cut” (or chew, or saw, or massacre…) the plants at the base of the stem. I feel grateful that we were able to identify the problem. Each plant now has a plant “collar” around them to hopefully prevent this from happening again.
Fortunately for me, I still had some replacements so there wasn’t much lost.
I can’t wait to show you the strawberry pics next week! And by then I should have a “Harvest Count” part of my blog up and running. I might not post until Monday because it’s Memorial Day weekend but I’ll get it done!