The Modern Victory Garden

I am taking some vacation days from work through next Tuesday. The primary reason is to work in a road trip to go see my parents and some of my siblings in Spokane, Washington. Because my daughter is still in school yet, she and my husband are not going to be able to join me. Together they will hold down the homestead. My husband has promised to water the recently planted seedbeds in my absence. So it will be a solo road trip this time for me.  Big mug of good coffee, satellite radio, and a full tank of gas in the Honda Fit - I think I am ready to roll!                                 

Plan to hit the road this morning around 9 am and will stop in Ellensburg to have lunch and a short visit with my in-laws. I always enjoy a visit with them and am looking forward to seeing how their garden is doing this year. I will be back on Sunday afternoon, which gives me a couple more days of vacation time to relax and catch up on things in the garden.               

This morning I am wrapping up making sure the garden beds are all thoroughly watered before I leave.  We have been having very warm weather and are into the third week of no rain - so everything is drying out quite quickly. Having to water is a small price to pay though for how the garden is thriving with the sunshine and warm temps!                        

The "Sunset" runner beans are up!                                               

The broccoli is heading up.                           

And the pea patch is a solid mass of blooms at the moment.                               

I will have peas to pick very soon.                                        

Enjoy the coming weekend and I will post an entry shortly after getting back updating you on how the trip went and how the garden fared in my absence.