An update from the Garden at Redwoodshire. We are daily amazed at what a tiny little seed can produce. You simply plant the seed, water it, and it does what it was created to do.
The PEAS- The peas are growing strong and will be ready for picking in a matter of days. Lady genevieve enjoyed a pea pod straight off the plant- which is exciting since she's going through a bit of a picky eating phase. One day this past week, we noticed a bunch of white flowers on our pea plants. Then all of a sudden there were peas! With such small fruit, it doesn't take long for them to appear and then be ready to pick. The peas are another seed that can withstand the cold temperatures and be planted as early as 6 weeks before the last frost. This minor detail we didn't know, so we got a bit of a late start.
Can you spot the little green peas growing out of the bottom of the white flowers?
THE LETTUCE patch- We planted 3 different varieties of lettuce: Tom Thumb (left), Salad greens (right), & mesclun (not pictured). Lettuce are another plant that can be planted by seed before the last frost. They actually do best when they are planted early, when the days are cool and the nights are cold. Lettuce doesn't really like the "hot" hot of summer. Though this is the first time the Laird has ever grown lettuce himself, his experiences with it as a kid made quite an impression on him- he hates growing lettuce. But since we were given a nice variety of lettuce seeds, he decided to give it a try. He decided that he really likes the "Tom Thumb" variety. Our Mesclun mix was eaten by bugs and then flowered quickly- so we never got to eat of it. The Salad greens mix grew well too. We've enjoyed a number of salads from this little patch of lettuce! If we grow lettuce again next season, Tom Thumb wins a spot in our garden- no bugs and no problems!
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| Doesn't this look amazingly delicious? |
The BLUEBERRIES- The Blueberries are netted and growing nice and plump! So far we have managed to protect our berries form the birds with a temporary Tepee netting system. In the future, we will have to decide how to protect the 6 plants (possibly more) we have in our patch. For now, we only have 1 plant old enough to bear fruit so the tepee works for this season.
Today is the longest day of the year- enjoy every minute of it! Happy longest day of the year!
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