Hoping an Indian Summer Will Allow Me to Harvest a Fall Crop
Garden Status: September 19, 2006
We’re having sort of an Indian Summer around here. We’ve had nothing but sunshine and warm temps in the mid-70’s (which is warm for Maine!). My garden is absolutely thriving!
Barrel 1 – I uprooted the parsley to give the leeks and fennel more space and sunshine. There isn’t much progress and at this point I don’t think the plants will produce veggies before the frost kills them off : (
Barrel 2 – The peas are going so crazy I had to stick some last minute, desperation supports into their barrel. There must be about a dozen or so peas that are ready for the picking.
Barrel 3 – The cabbage and radicchio are really taking off. I couldn’t resist picking one of my carrots just to see how they are progressing. The root is plumping up nicely, and there’s about an inch worth of orange color that has developed. According to my ‘days to maturity’ calculation, they should be ready for harvesting. Hopefully with all the nice weather, I’ll be eating carrots within the next week. I just hope they mature and are ready for harvest before I pick them all out of sheer curiosity!
Barrel 4 – I think I have an infestation in my broccoli. There a little ‘bites’ and bumps all over the underside of some of the leaves. My theory is that something (probably those little green worms) has laid eggs in the leaves. I think I even saw a few little worm hatchlings. I had five broccoli plants, which is probably a little over board for a household of two….so, I just uprooted the seedling that was severely infested and kicked it to the curb before all the little green bumps had a chance to hatch. Then, I sprayed the rest of the plants with my handy dandy dish soap.
Barrel 5 – Holy Zucchini Batman! I have had a squash explosion. At the beginning of last week, I had thought I would only get about 2 zucchinis out of my three plants. This week there must be half a dozen female zucchini buds, and the plants have doubled in size!
Barrel 6 – Barrel six and barrel 3 are planted in the same configuration, but with different varieties. This barrel has pretty much the same progress.
Thanks!
Ebinla
