The peas should probably be classified as winter/spring garden plants, but this year’s cool weather has allowed them to linger on and on and on. I love sugar snap peas, but I’m beginning to tire of them! Also, I think I probably should have shopped more carefully for the seeds I used. I bought a package of “Suzie Irwin’s Squirrel’s Choice Sugar Snap Pole Peas” at my garden center, and I seem to have an assortment of the sugar snaps I expected mixed with snow peas and regular garden peas. I won’t buy that brand again.
When I take the peas out in a few weeks, I’ll plant a second crop of pole beans. I NEVER get tired of green beans.
I planted tomatoes May 1, when they looked like this:
I measure the growth of my tomato plants by the squares in the cages, which are about five inches. When they were planted, they just barely reached the first five inch mark, but now they’ve more than doubled in height. Two and a half weeks later, the same plant looks like this.
(That’s Fat Lizzie doing her head-down badger walk in the background.)
I planted six California Wonder pepper plants, three gold and three red, about a week ago. The plants were small, but they seem to be off to a good start.
My Blue Lake pole beans are just getting their second set of leaves after a cruel attack by snails (Sluggo to the rescue), and my lemon cucumber and green and yellow pattypan squash seeds just sprouted in the past couple of days.
I also planted three eggplants, even though I’m not all that fond of eggplant, because they are such beautiful plants. I do like ratatouille (well disguised eggplant) and I can always leave them on the neighbors’ porches.
‘Fat’ Lizzie looks like she is hard at work ridding your garden of pests!
Isn’t it amazing how quickly everything comes on? Good old mother nature hard at work!
Shame I don’t live in your neighbourhood – any neighbour who leaves freash veggies on the porch would be a friend indeed! *smile*
You know, Ken, I think I’d like eggplant better if I were in France and it were called aubergine! I’ll try a gratin. I often do something similar with summer squash.
Chris, you can send us all the eggplants you don’t want! They’re good sliced in a gratin with sliced fresh tomatoes, olive oil, and cheese.
I just went out for my morning walk around and noticed that one of the other tomatoes, the sugar snack, has passed the third rung!
I’m going to have to buy some other green bean seeds. The first eight-foot row is all Blue Lake. Once the peas come down, I’ll have space to try a few other varieties. One year I grew Trionfo Violetto, a beautiful purple bean that unfortunately lost its color when cooked.
It is coming around well. Look at those tomatoes in just two weeks. We just put ours out yesterday. It will be interesting to see how much ours grow in two weeks compared with Sacramento.
The peas look and like those Grey Sugar peas we tried last year. Not the plump sugar snaps and not sugar pea pods either. We’re not growing those this year. Sugar Sprint (dwarf sugar snap) and regular sugar snap poles.
I also love green beans. All kinds. I think this year we’ll have 5 different types.