Towering snap peas

The snap peas have been a winner again this year. They came up quickly and easily and are now 5 feet tall and starting to produce the first sweet snap peas.

Soil fungus

Some of sort of fungus has attacked. It's growing on the surface like eggs, with tindrilly, moldy roots growing 1 inch down. I suspect it's from mixing in the mulch when I turned the soil.

I dug up patches of it all over the garden. But it might take something more.

Onions, carrots, radish early June

Everything is coming up well since the fence went up. The second round of lettuce is coming in thick. The carrots are growing tall. And the onions are starting to flower. I thinned the radishes and carrots tonight.

Suck it rabbits!

The (hopefully) rabbit-proof fence. Ok, so they can likely jump more than 3 feet high. Hmm, the interwebs tells me that rabbits can jump "36 inches or higher...". I'm willing to gamble that there is enough easy to reach food that rabbits will be detered by the fence. Besides, even if it isn't entirely effective against rabbits, it can surely keep out the litterbox cats and baby D.

Growing Persian cucumbers

Cucumber seedlings emerged after just 1 week. I have started long Persians from seed as well as a pickling cucumber. I just can't help shunning the durable marketmore in favor of more interesting flavors. If last year is any prediction, I will go crawling back to the garden center for some marketmore starts to supplement my failing fancy cucumbers

Growing strawberries

Growing strawberries might be my favorite part of the food garden. The perennial strawberries come back year after year and the biggest issues I face with them are that they spread like crazy and the birds love them. So, I have to pull out a few stray runners and cover the patch with bird netting as June approaches. Those two things aside, they are pure joy. They grow easily and don't seem to have any insect pests. Even when I don't remember to water regularly, they turn out fine. The flavor of garden strawberries is unlike anything I have ever found in a store and the kids gobble them right out of the garden. I love to see the strawberry juice running down their chins as their cheeks bulge with berries.

Growing red onions part 2

The red onions are getting bigger by the week. Here they are on May 16th.