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.

What Plants Are Next for Transplanting?

It looks like this weekend has been quite productive with adding three types of plants into the garden.  This doesn't sound like much, but with over twenty tomato plants, twelve squash plants, and a dozen melon plants it makes for a long weekend.  Today I was able to finish the melons and squash transplanting.

A couple of days ago when I had finished tilling I wanted to get as many tomato plants into the ground as possible.  Since I had many tomato plants to add to the garden I wanted to get the hardest plants over with.  It only took about four hours to plant all my tomato plants into the ground.

My melons had been in peat pots for quite a long time and they probably wouldn't have last that much longer in these containers.  That is when I decided to plant them right after my tomatoes.  This includes all my
melons such as watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew.

Right after doing my melon plants squash plants were next.  The two squash plants that I grew this season were pumpkins and zucchini.  These are the only two squash plants worth growing.

Garden Soil Ready for Transplanting

I just finished tilling the rest of the garden today and I only started yesterday doing as much as I could.  Luckily weather was really good today and needed to complete tilling the whole garden in order to place my plants in the soil.

I wasn't able to put my plants in the soil just yet, but I did start digging holes for them which is what I like to do before moving plants into the garden.  Not all the holes are ready for all of my plants, but I did get the majority of them ready for when I begin transplanting them.

I also made sure that I stayed away from my spring crops which are still growing and are continuing the produce a decent harvest.  I have only picked my lettuce so far, but they are still producing leaves which I should begin picking more of them sometime soon.

The leaves on this plant are fine it just has some apple blossom petals on it which make it look kind of weird.  Unfortunately there is a tree next to it which I cannot do anything about and the petals fall in the garden.  I should soon pick some more of these leaves along with many others very soon.

Butterhead Lettuce Ready for Picking

Getting the first harvest of the season is always exciting especially if it is a vegetable or leaf that you love to eat.  I love using lettuce in salads and sandwiches and are just the perfect leaves for any dish.

Today was a good day to start picking the first harvest of lettuce.  I only picked from some of the first plants that were ready to go into the garden.  Not all of my lettuce plants were ready for picking and I only focused on four of them which happened to be butterhead lettuce.

It didn't take that long to pick and it took more time to clean them off.  It rained recently and much of the dirt got on most of the older leaves.  These are the leaves I picked today, but later I will pick all the bigger and greener leaves when the time is right.

From this picture it doesn't look like I picked any leaves from this plant.  This is mainly due to the fact I picked all the older leaves which were smaller and hidden underneath all the larger leaves you see here.  In the next harvest you will definitely notice a difference with more leaves picked.

Dill, Alyssum, and Wildflower Plants Ready for Transplanting

It was time for my flowers to be placed into the garden now that the weather is warming up in the beginning month of May.  This is the month that I usually start planting most of my plants that I have started indoors.  Only my flowers are ready for now and all my other plants will have to wait for a little bit more warmer temperatures.

My dill, alyssum, and wildflowers have been outside for quite some time and it was about time to place them right into the garden soil.  It doesn't take that long to transplant them and once they are in the garden you don't have to do much with them for the rest of the season.  You may have to occasionally water and weed them, but nothing too time consuming.

All my lettuce is finally in the ground as well so I don't have to worry about transplanting them anymore and can now focus on possibly harvesting some of the leaves from a few of them.  The ones I planted today I will not harvest for another few weeks and most likely by the end of May.