Greens are up, garden is lush and growing quickly with all this daily rain. The rhubarb is the best rhubarb I've ever grown....huge, long and juicy stalks~that I can't pick and eat this first year!
Have to leave them be so the roots can develop. Hard to do. Seems like this slightly raised bed situation with some heavy feeding has done the trick. Keeps them out of the heavy clay soils in all this rain, allows drainage, but still will keep them moist enough when the weather dries out.
Maters are looking good, growing fast and thick, nice big bloom showing up on the old types and tomatoes on the hybrids. Squash starting to put out little ones, will soon be covered over with yellow squash, I imagine.
Cukes are looking good in some places, waterlogged and spindly in others. Broccoli looks lush and lovely, peppers are perking up and I had to pick some of the banana peppers off so the plants could grow bigger.
Spud vines are laid over but not yet dying off...reasonable size on the tops this year, so I have hopes for the taters below.
Asparagus is so-so....not sure what it's supposed to look like this first year, so am just waiting to see what happens there. Flowers are perking up and looking well. Volunteer cherry tomatoes are doing well...I'm allowing two of them to stick around.
So far, the rain isn't hurting us...could be due to the hay working as a sponge to keep moisture more evenly distributed and keeping the roots more dry than they normally would be in this clay based soil. Beans are spotty in their growth, not sure what that means.
Good garden thus far. I'm thanking the good Lord for it each day!
