I cut my first Garlic Chives today for our salad. and for the Ravioli Lemon-Butter sauce I made. I rarely use these chives as I have found a bit of an unpleasant cabbage flavor. These were wonderful and did not have that unpleasantness. Maybe that develops later in the season. Maybe I need to cut them down more often.
The temperature was 70° today, so I took a walk through the garden to start my planning. The garden is really ready for cleanup, but the ground is a little wet. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time today as I need to run over to exercise.
I will probably only be able to get two trellises in a raised bed as they are three feet wide. The pea bed is twelve feet long. So I need to go to plan “B”. I don’t think I can get the new beds in and filled with dirt in time to plant peas. The ground will likely be too wet to move dirt over. I could put the new beds in and just plant inside them without the extra dirt. Planting might be tough, though. I could plant in the existing bed, though. I don’t think I want to use two beds for peas. I need to check the harvest date from last year………….
I was picking peas at the end of June last year after planting them on April 30.
The chives are about three or four inches tall. If the weather warms back up after the coming cold snap, we could be cutting in a few weeks. The rabbits chewed the bark on some of the blackberries, but it doesn’t seem as bad as last year.
I saw a post last night about Costata Romanesco Zucchini, which said it had a delicious, unique flavor, so I went searching and wound up staying up until almost 1:00 AM, placing a seed order with Johnny’s Seeds. I had ordered from them a few years ago, and they had some unique vegetables that I couldn’t get from Terroir. It will also spare me from last-minute seed purchases at Goebbert’s or Home Depot. Here’s what I bought:
I woke up to thunderstorms this morning, and it will be sunny with temperatures in the low 70s on Sunday and Monday. I am hoping I can move the trellises for the peas to one of the raised beds, then move the two planter beds to replace the two bad ones, and then enrich the soil in all four beds. I am probably only a couple of weeks away from my first plantings of peas and radishes.