Some Fruits and Vegetables are Starting to Appear

There are already and few fruits and vegetables that are starting to grow on some of my plants.  It is still the beginning of the season and there are many more days ahead, but seeing plants getting ready to produce harvests is a good sign.  Usually early is better in this situation.

There are still plenty of plants that are not quite that fast, but in time they too will eventually begin producing some fruit and vegetables.  There was only one harvest this week that came from my blueberry bushes.  They normally don't ripen this early, but with the clear skies and bright sun around they have ripened much quicker.

I didn't get that much, but with the first harvest I think I did quite well.

This only a sample of the amount of blueberries I plan on picking this year.  There are still some out there and I am hopeful that I will have many more harvests to come this year.










I am starting to see some tomatoes from some of my plants mainly cherry tomatoes for the moment.  I did not see any other tomatoes in the garden beginning to grow, but it will take my steakhouse and Roma tomatoes a little bit more time to grow.

Summer is Just Around the Corner and Time to Focus on Different Plants

Now that summer is just about here in two days the weather is not as warm or sunny as it should be.  Normally the month of June is quite warm and dry, but this year it has been quite cooler and more damp than usual.  The good news about this is that my Spring plants are continuing to grow and produce.

At the moment it looks like my peas and radishes are done for the season.  My lettuce on the other hand is still growing and with a little bit of luck I could probably pick them one more time.  I did pick some this morning along with the rest of the peas and I got a good harvest from both of them.

I will be focusing more on my summer plants with the possibility of warmer weather arriving.  This includes all my squash plants, tomatoes, corn, melons, cucumbers, pole beans, and carrots.  I have weeded everything so far and finished with the carrots today.  With this rain I will probably have to weed them again before July fourth.

This was the last harvest of peas and I was able to pick close to 250 pea pods.  This is the most I have picked from one harvest this season and I hope to enjoy every single one of them.  I got a large bowl of lettuce today as well and look forward to possibly getting some more in the next week or so.

One of The Largest Harvests of Lettuce for 2017

It was that time of the season when all my lettuce plants were ready for harvesting including my Ruby glow hybrid leaves.  This is when I usually pick quite a bit of them and over 190 leaves were picked this week from these plants.  I should have picked a few more in order to get an even 200, but I am certain to have plenty of more harvests before all the hot weather returns.

For now my lettuce plants are producing leaves, but with some high temperatures coming during the weekend I will have to watch to see if any of the plants try to start going to seed.  They usually bolt when the weather is consistently warm and I don't know exactly how long this warm weather will last.
 

This was the first harvest for my Ruby glow lettuce and I picked about 50 leaves for now.  There are still plenty of leaves on the plants for another harvest or two.  If the weather isn't too hot I might have even more leaves to pick from all my plants.

Getting Good Sized Radishes from Garden

In a previous post I said I was going to start picking these vegetables real soon and decided on picking them today just after some morning rain.  I didn't want to let these plants get to seed otherwise they might come out tough and not very tasteful.  I probably could have picked them sooner, but they still look quite good and can't wait to start eating them in a salad along with my harvested lettuce.

They came out good and was very exciting to pick them from the ground today and see how big they have become.  I didn't pick all of them and still have a few that are not quite ready but very soon they will come out of the ground.  A total of 24 weighing two pounds were harvested this afternoon.

Update on Peas, Radishes, Lettuce and Onions

I just wanted to shoot an update on my spring crop for now.  With the weather that we have been having it has benefited my spring crop the most.  My lettuce plants are flourishing, my peas are starting to produce pods, my onions have thick green stems, and my radishes are almost ready for harvesting.

The past two weeks have been exciting and with all the flowers that my peas are growing I am sure I will have plenty of pods before the spring season is over.  If we keep getting cool and wet weather the peas will give me enough pods to last several weeks or more.

The last time I checked my radishes the roots were quite small and I was covering them up with dirt in order to keep the bulbs out of the sun.  The sun can turn them color and make them quite bitter similar to what happens to carrots if exposed to sunlight.  Now they are about the size of golf balls from what I could see.  I won't know their actual size until I harvest them which should be coming real soon.

My lettuce plants have many leaves at the moment and I should start harvesting more of them from most of my plants.  They look quite ready and the weather has definitely been helping them with these leaves.  I have harvested from a couple of plants such as iceberg, butterhead, and loose leaf.  The only one I haven't harvested from would be my romaine lettuce or the Ruby glow hybrid.  I will be picking from them real soon once I think they have enough leaves to loose a few of them.

Here is the romaine lettuce that I haven't picked any leaves from yet.  I probably could pick a few of the older and lower ones.  I might do that tomorrow depending on what I have going on.








So far my spring crop is doing quite well and also my onions are part of this season as well and they are getting thick and strong stems.  This usually means that I might be getting good sized onions this season as long as this weather holds out or I keep feeding them until they are ready to be picked.