My garden is now producing somewhat regularly. I can get enough lettuce for two salads about 3 times a week, I'm pulling radishes like crazy, and I've even started getting some spinach and strawberries.
The radishes especially remind me of Spring. When I was young, i remember biting into fresh radishes with their super pungent and aromatically spicy flavor. I love just washing the dirt off, grabbing it by the top, shaking a little salt on it and taking a big bite. They are also really good in salads.
The salads we've had so far are seriously yummy, the lettuce is still warm from the sun, just a quick rinse to get any bugs and dirt off and a quick tear into a salad bowl, throw some thinly sliced radishes on... sprinkle with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil, lemon juice and white wine vinegar and dig in.
The strawberries started out watery, so I cut down on watering them. From every day to every other day or so. It seems to have made the fruits that much sweeter, while still being juicy. I don't know that we'll ever get more than half a dozen ripe at once with the six plants we have, so we'll still be buying them at the Farmer Market.
The tomato plants are in the ground and seem to be growing well. I need to finish the drip irrigation around them. I sowed a bunch of basil seeds among the tomato plants and am hoping I can get those to germinate and thrive under the tomatoes. They're supposed to help keep insects out, and a good tomato salad can't be without fresh basil... right? I've just had such bad luck with basil this year, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Unca Doe (aka "1/2 Canadian" or "Haf Canadian" on the web) (unauthenticated)
May 20, 2008 4:42 AM
We're just crawlin' out of the mud, hit 3 days over 90 degrees, and now it's rainin again. You
Californians just don't play fair. I try to say this as my tonque slathers in a pool of slobber
at my feet, while I gaze longingly at them radishes.
See, ya shouldn't leave your blog site layin round where jus anybody can find it!
-Luv, Unca Doe