Harvesting What We Sow

 

A view of one half of our garden taken just over a week ago. Thus far everything is looking great, especially the potatoes. Thus far we have been just weeding what few weeds grow this time of the year but plan on mulching everything in the next few weeks before we leave on our trip.

Above is the other half of the garden and mostly the warm weather stuff starting with the tomatoes with the cages. There are also a couple rows of beans we just planted and two rows of sweet potato slips beyond that before one gets to the garlic and strawberry bed. 

Our radishes did pretty well but were starting to get big and heat up spice wise so I picked all that was left in the garden, thinly sliced and cold pickled them along with a couple old carrots in the fridge. We like to eat this on bibimbap or other similar dishes. Besides that, we've already been eating lettuce fairly regularly as well as pulling the occasional onion. It won't be long before we can start harvesting new potatoes. 

With us planning to be gone the bulk of June, I'm not sure what might happen to our garden. I think most things will do fine though we may have some overdue garlic to pick when we get back. At this point, I think we aren't likely to get any peas before then as they have been growing very slowly this year despite being planted in the last days of February. I think my wife is going to let her nurse come over and look after things, picking things like peas that we may not get to harvest. That way they won't go to waste. I may have to ask her about the sour cherry crop too since we likely won't be around for that this year much to my dismay. But if she doesn't want that, the birds will be happy to tackle that project.