Garden Update

We have eaten our first “crop” from our garden. The bok choi (or pac choi as we discovered is its correct name) apparently felt too hot too soon and bolted. So did the cilantro. Maybe we will plant some more in the early fall… But we had a bit of pac choi in our pesto pasta a few nights ago and in an omelette for brunch.

Most things are growing along OK. We have corn, beets, carrots, chard, bell peppers, butternut squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers.

The first tomato plant we got, from the natural foods market, grew slowly and then suddenly produced a tomato. It was a bit alarming – I compared it to teenage pregnancy. You’re too young to have young! Grow some leaves first, honey! The other 3 tomato plants are seriously stunted. They are still alive but didn’t grow significantly since we put them in as starts, until a week or so ago when they started to shoot up a bit with green growth rather than dark dingy stalks like they were before. I guess where there’s life there’s hope… I’m not holding my breath… But, it’s likely we’ll get a few tomatoes from the freebie plants we got from a church member. He was getting rid of some surplus starts from his garden business a month or so ago and we planted tomatoes and cucumbers in an unclaimed plot next to our existing one. Those plants all have green tomatoes. We also got a few peppers and there is a baby bell pepper in the works. I’m pleased with the chard – it looks so pretty with its multi-colored stems.