Another Week

You can check out a few more harvests at Daphne's and Harvest Monday.

Ugly Picture - Beautiful Tomato

OK
So I know the pictures are cruddy. They come off the phone and I must say I never used that feature before. I just had to show off my first large tomato. This is a brandywine and it is a good 20 days before I have ever harvested in previous years. Ate it tonight and it was as good as they always are. All the plants are loaded with them but may have ceased setting fruit since it was so hot for a couple of days. We will see what happens in the next couple of days. We finally got rain after 4 weeks of no substantial rainfall.

Here are some of the other tomatoes also. And these are the carrots that I pulled. Not as sweet as I had hoped. Any thoughts on the reason?





A lot more in the garden that is being harvested but the phone camera is just not cutting it.

Is that a Carrot

I was out picking the peas this morning when I had the strong overwhelming desire to pick one of the carrots that I have been waiting for patiently. I know that everyone else on the east coast has planted and already pulled their spring carrots but I am on the slow side. Not having planted carrots in previous years and failing with the first attempts, I came across Dan's blog entry about how he was planting them. He in turn got the idea from Granny's directions. So, some where in the first week of May, I decided to give it a go. I think for my zone, I should have done this in early April and I would have had them pulled by now.
I just had to take a peak, and was I surprised to actually see a pretty straight, good looking beginning of what is going to be a carrot.

It tasted good too.

The Carrots have Germinated

So excited by all the stuff that is in and beginning to pop. Everything is in accept for a plant or two. So I feel that I am officially cataloguing the contents of the garden.

The garden is divided into 11 smaller plots. i refer to them by numbers except for my daughter's plot. Some of the plots get a little too much shade from a tree that has almost doubled in size in the last three years. PSEG trimmed some branches that were in the way of the wires and this forced it to sprout up. It is not our tree and I think I will be heading out there with a clipper or saw to remove some of the branches. Along the back from left are one, two, three. The middle is four, five, six and the most forward is seven, eight, (daughter's plot) and nine.

The last two plots can be seen below. The plot on the top is divided into two: ten-a and ten-b. The plot on the bottom is eleven. These are the two plots that get a lot of shade. Plot ten has mainly root vegetables and brussel sprouts.

The excitement for the day is the following:  

The carrots have germinated. Can you see them? I had to thin the radishes and this is what I pulled out. I am so excited since all I got last year were beautiful leaves from my radishes. Aren't these precious?