The poor radishes - Week 6

Ok, so maybe I spoke too soon. This has been a really rainy year, and the storm on Thursday literally uprooted my radishes and exposed the tops. AND THEN STELLA SAW THEM! and she had lunch.

I had placed all my seeds on elevated rows of dirt, with water escaping canals between all of them. Unfortunately the rain was so hard this last storm, that the mounds eroded into the canals, and made it all flat so everything flooded. Fortunately if did not kill them, but there were a few casualties.

Radishes on Thursday

By Friday, they had drained, and I was alble to mound dirt around their bulbs, and this is what it looks like now, not too bad. Stella apparently only found the row on the left.

ALSO, something to note in the picture, is I did a Neem oil pest test on the row farthest to the right, I am testing to see if they get eaten less without it effecting the plant, I will post those results later.

Rehab'd radishes on Friday after the rough storm

Elephant Garlic that I stated from one clove

White squall

I woke up to this

Surviving the storm - Week 5

Its been rough, raining, pouring, and well, lets face it, the old man is snoring. I was really worried about losing a lot of the direct seedlings with such heavy rain so early in the season. Although some have washed away, and some were literally pound into the ground, the rest have survived and are thriving, which is great so early in the season. These pictures were taken today, which means that we have finally caught up.

Broccoli from last season going to seed

Broccoli, that came out more like broccolinni

Here is some fennel that I just transplanted to the ground from a pot that I started in October. It finally took off, I had it in the wrong soil this whole time. It has doubled in size every week for 4 weeks.

Fennel

 Chard in the foreground, re-seeded from last year

Radishes are in!

 Radishes, Onions, and Sweet Peas

Arugula & Lettuce (at top)