At the moment the only vegetable that has started going to
seed are my radishes which will need to be picked before the radish becomes too
small to consume. They were quick to
sprout and very quick to go to seed, but that may be due to thinning them out
to late. I needed to thin them out a
little bit earlier and I think they would have been fine, but I can always grow
another harvest in the fall.
Other than my radishes and peas everything seems to be going
quite well. My peas were done long
before my radishes and they didn’t produce much. This might be due to the hot weather and
possibly lack of rain. Even though I
watered them the soil might have dried out faster than other parts of the
garden. I should have added mulch around
these plants and that would have helped the soil stay moist and would have
retained water helping out my cool weather plants.
I did place mulch around my potatoes this year since after
last season they turned brown quicker than I would have liked I thought it best
to give them as much mulch as possible.
It seems to be working and the soil is staying moist and the plants are
thriving even in this hot weather we have been having.
They are already producing flowers which is a
good sign for potatoes and some of them are starting to pop through the
ground. Place a little bit of soil on
top of it to cover it and make sure it doesn’t get exposed to the sun.
Corn will be the next plant that I will have to place mulch
around once I do one last weeding and side dress them with blood meal. After that I can leave them alone in terms of
weeding and that they need is lots of water because they happen to be heavy
feeders. I might give them some
fish/seaweed emulsion once they silks or tassels start coming in, but that will
be it for feeding.
Once I am done with the corn I can start attaching my rope to my pole beans. They have started producing vines and I will begin attaching them to my bean trellis to prevent them from going all over the place looking awful.
