We've been able to stay in fresh lettuce and mixed greens for over a month now and we are getting really spoiled having our own salad mix every night especially after a long winter of the bagged stuff from CA. It has taken a lot of work keeping seed packs sprouted for succession planting. Things are getting a bit tricky now though with the summer heat. Things like the spinach and chard are beginning to bolt and set seed. We'll do the best we can to cope most likely going the micromix route until fall. Attention will now go more toward the squashes, melons, and getting a row of carrots in for the fall and early winter.
The black raspberries are just beginning to come in and today was the first initial pick. I also said good bye to the strawberries until next spring doing the very last pick of the stragglers. This was the first year that we've had about a week overlap of both berries. Definitely a hoot having a bowel of both for desert tonight.
The new tomato and pepper bed is going well. Everything was caged up last weekend and the varmint fence was taken down. Tomorrow the chard is coming out of the main garden to make room for a carrot row and the cucumber fence is going up. This year I am going to try the Johnny's pruning regime to see if I can keep the jungle under control and hopefully limit the blight that always seems to hit later in the season.
I spend most of my time concentrating on edible landscapes but the one bed that has the bird bath is mostly Echinacea and ornamental grass. The echinacea is just about ready to bloom.
