Garden Status

Since our laptop died in May, making updates has been difficult. We now have a brand new Asus Eee-1000HA. It's one of those cute little netbooks. I'm loving it so far, the battery life is incredible compared to our bottom of the barrel laptop.

Life in New England has been about as cool and wet as I've ever seen. Needless to say the garden has been slow growing. The cool weather veggies are doing great, but the warm weather ones are pokey.

The snow peas produced nearly a 4 pound harvest. Not bad for a 6', double row planting. I've also managed to harvest 6 heads of broccoli. They look to be similar in size to those in the grocery store. It is unfortunate they all came at once, but they produced a lot better than last year's crop. Granted, last year I planted them just a week before Memorial Day, so they just didn't have enough time before the warm weather set in.

When I planted the onions I also threw some leaf lettuce seed in the between row areas. Not much came up, but what did come up has been producing a few sandwiches worth of lettuce each week. Not enough to track hardly, but a nice addition to my daily lunch sandwich.

The corn is still only knee high. I did some thinning over the July 4th weekend. To avoid wasting the thinned plants I dug up an area in a fallow plot next to mine and transplanted the extra plants there. They aren't looking too healthy right now, but they would have been composted otherwise so it is worth a shot.

The tomato, watermelon, summer squash, pumpkin & cucumber plants are similarly stunted by the cool weather. The peppers are actually holding their own, which is a little surprising given the cool weather. They transplanted much better than the tomatoes, however, so that has given them a head start of sorts.

Hopefully we will break out of this wet & cool weather pattern and get some good warm growing weather soon! Otherwise this may turn out to be a disappointing year.