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| Purple Pac Choi |
And my double protective anti-rodent barriers (actually make that triple protection if you count the hot pepper powder that I liberally sprinkled around) kept 3 of the 4 spring planted Batavia broccoli plants safe, and all three main heads were ready to harvest in the past week.
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| Batavia Broccoli |
Apparently the rodents are either too lazy or just not able to get to the bulk of the blueberries that are ripening and numerous long streamers of flash tape have been keeping the birds at bay so I got to pick a cupful of ripe berries off of my potted plants.
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| Batavia Broccoli |
Yikes, the Q of C lettuce is splitting apart and getting ready to bolt. It's still as crispy crunchy and tasty as ever though. I'm definitely going to start more of it and see how it performs in the summer.
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| Queen of Crunch Lettuce |
Oh how fun it was to furtle around in the top couple of inches of soil around the French Blue Belle potato plants and find almost a pound of new spuds!
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| French Blue Belle Potatoes |
That's pretty much been the bulk of the harvests for the past few weeks other than a trickle of Royal snow peas and a few fava beans that I rescued before ripping out the plants to keep the Damn Rodents from eating the rest of the beans.
That's my latest Harvest Monday report. Dave is our host over at his blog Our Happy Acres, head on over there to see what other garden bloggers have been harvesting lately.
Furtle is a new word for me. (It's new to spellchecker as well.) Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhat varieties of blueberries are you growing?
Misty and Sunshine Blue. They are excellent low chill varieties and both are very productive, even in pots. Furtle is a fun word to use. I do believe I first saw it used on another garden blog, but don't remember which one.
DeleteThe potatoes are really striking, and the Purple Pac Choi looks better than when I try to grow it. I had to look up 'furtle' too, I'll have to add that to my vocabulary!
ReplyDeleteIt's my best Purple Pac Choi ever. I usually direct sow it and harvest leaf by leaf to use in salads but for this planting I started them in a pot and then set out the seedlings 4 inches apart and they really responded well to that treatment. The tight spacing I used when direct sowing seemed to push them to bolt quickly.
DeleteLike Dave the potatoes took my attention - quite unusual.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness I love all your varieties and colors! I want to try those potatoes! So pretty! I'm glad you are getting somethings before the critters do! I found a litter of baby bunnies in my raised bean bed this evening! *sigh* Their eyes are not even open yet! They are so cute but I know the destruction they are going to cause if I don't find a way to get them out!
ReplyDeleteOh how awful, what a dilemma. Cute, but yes, so destructive. And you know how they multiply!
DeleteThat's so funny, most years I get a rabbit living in our bush bean patch.
DeleteAnd you still get to harvest beans?!
DeleteThat's some huge heads of broccoli and your pac choi are gorgeous. It must've been so fun digging around for those pretty potatoes. I'm not holding out for our potatoes, they usually don't make spuds when it gets this hot.
ReplyDeleteYou must have a very short window of opportunity for growing potatoes if they don't like the heat. It seems like you go from winter to summer in a flash.
DeleteYummy blueberries (lucky!!) and those potatoes are gorgeous!! Leave it to you to grow a variety I've never heard of :) I'm growing some in bags as an experiment and one is just starting to flower - hopefully the bagged spuds are not duds :)
ReplyDeleteThat pac choi looks amazing! Mine is very "holey" - it's covered and I haven't found any cabbage worms that may have sneaked in so I'm thinking damn slugs.
Those potatoes are in full bloom right now. I read somewhere that when potatoes bloom that it means that they are forming spuds and you can dig for the first baby new potatoes. I certainly found a bunch in just the top few inches of soil. I hope it's a sign of more potatoes deeper down.
DeleteThose potatoes are gorgeous! Do they taste as good as they look?
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find them?
Jamaica
They definitely taste as good as they look, although the blue/purple eyes loose their color. They came from Renee's Garden Seeds, they offer them on their website.
DeleteLove those Bluebelle potatoes, and good to hear they make tasty eating too. Ours are a little less glamorous, being plain white, but it is so good to find them under the soil, isn't it? Never tire of that excitement!!
ReplyDeleteIt is exciting, like a treasure hunt!
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