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| Posted on June 19, 2010 at 10:24 PM |
Today was largely spent attending my daughter’s high school graduation ceremony and enjoying a late lunch celebration with visiting family members afterwards at our home. Lindsay has been in the running start program for the past two years, and graduated today not only with a high school diploma, but also with an AA degree from Olympic College. She graduated with honors and will soon be leaving us to attend Lehigh University. Here she is with her Grandma and Grandpa...
…and with my husband and myself.
After a tasty lunch and lots of visiting, we moved out to the garden for a stroll and lots more visiting! I always enjoy sharing my garden with others and there were lots of things to look at and talk about. Such as tomatoes that are getting quite sizeable and some of which are already setting fruit.
The peas are forming nice pods – both the sugar snaps and the shelling peas. In fact, I ate the first Cascadia sugar snap pea this afternoon while standing and visiting in the garden. (Yum!)
The celery is now big enough that I am making small harvests from it.
The greens are definitely the star attraction in the garden at the moment though. The Savoy Ace cabbages are beautiful and the lettuce patch continues to be lush and abundant.
Earlier this week I hand pollinated a female zucchini bloom and it is progressing on in growth.
We ended the garden walk by giving a brief tour of the chicken coop and introducing our little flock of hens to everyone. Like the garden, they are certainly growing as well.
A fun day of celebrating, eating good food, visiting, and strolling in the garden I love. Good things.
Laura
kitsapfreedomgardener
Categories: Vegetables, Plants, Chickens
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I'm glad to see that everything is coming along well. It sounds like we will be harvesting our first zucchini roughly at around the same time.
That garden looks wonderful!
The garden looks wonderful. It's funny, our peas are starting to wind down just about the time I usually start harvesting them. The tomatoes and squashes will be early too.
Have you noticed any bitterness in the celery? I was doing some reading (my plants are still fairly small compared to yours) and it said you're supposed to dig a trench for the plants then when they get taller you're supposed to backfill and cover the stalks with soil so they don't get bitter when sunlight hits them. I just planted them like "normal" plants, so I'm wondering if I'll have to hill soil around them?
Becky - The running start program is a real opportunity but requires a great deal of discipline for kids that age - going to college for course work instead of highschool removes them from the social scene, requires them to attend class regularly and study hard (no teachers or attendance monitor folloing up with them), and they have to initiate the meetings with counselers to go over credit requirements and class scheduling - on their own. It's definitely not for everyone but Lindsay thrived on it and it gives her a real leg up on college.
hsheather - Your garden is running early and our is running late - weather has been different for both of us than normal but in opposite ways.
katiegirl - I do not notice bitterness but homegrown celery in general is much stronger flavored than the factory farmed stuff you buy in the supermarket. The hilling process serves to blanch the lower stalk so that it is creamy white and less flavorful (milder). Some people prefer certain vegetables blanched (white asparagus, white lower celery stalks, etc). You certainly can do that but I find it completely unnecessary.as I like the more celeery flavored celery!
It is good to see that things are progressing in the garden in spite of the wet and cold weather. That said, I wouldn't mind a bit more sun!
You chickies are looking great.
Sandy - Progressing yes, but painfully slow and way behind normal schedule.
As usual, you garden is producing well and everything looks gorgeous. I need to try growing celery, it was the only ingredient missing from last night's stew.
Dan - I am noticing it is lightening up in color which is usually a good sign it is getting closer to ripening. If we just had a week of some warm weather I am pretty sure that the fruits that are on the Siletz plants would put a real move on it. I am not getting much fruit set on the tomatoes that have been outside all along because it has just been too chill. Honestly, I wish summer would arrive and stay for a while.
The garden is looking healthy and happy !
As always, your garden is looking great!
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- Celery
- Corn Salad (mache)
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