Here are the promised photos from my garden, courtesy of one of my resident photographers, Jim.
The fava bean blossoms above are quite unusually-coloured…beans will be light brown when I get them.
These bean plants are supposed to grow 6 – 10 feet high…Dad pounded some poles in for them the other night.
My Chinese cabbage is doing well…regular green cabbage looks good too!
We’re going to have a freezerful of pretty beans this summer!
My peas are thriving…already a couple of feet high and clinging to the strings Dad installed for them.
Strange…the black and white beans have plain white blossoms…
More colourful beans!
These are pretty sparse…luckily, Dad planted beets in his part of the garden too!
If you look closely, you can see the holes in the leaves where the bugs have been munching them…we’ve already had several salads.
Not much Swiss chard either…Jim loves that!
The mixed lettuce is almost ready to start picking…pretty contrast between dark and light…
I’m hopeful that I’ll have some heirloom tomatoes after all (bought some plants as a backup just in case, but they’re neither heirloom nor organic!
The pesky critters have been chewing holes in the sunflower leaves too, but it doesn’t seem to bother them.
Today, I was delighted to discover these pea pods on my Sugar Ann peas!
These carrots are smaller than they look (about 3 inches high)…planted them between the pea plants.
I think this is rutabaga, but I’m not sure…Jim was snapping so many photos, I kind of lost track!
This is definitely cauliflower!
Not pictured: pumpkins, squash, cucumbers (their leaves look like demented doilies – they’ve been ravaged by insects); purple brussels sprouts, broccoli, bunching onions (forgot to photograph them); purchased tomato/pepper/chive plants (cheating!); spinach (last year’s gone to seed).
I’m optimistic that we’ll have good results from our garden this year…we could all benefit from more vegetables in our diets!