Cauliflower

After waiting patiently I harvested the Cauliflower yesterday. Out of the 3 flowers only two were 'okay' -  the other one was partly feasted on by snails! It didn't turn out like the one's you see in the grocery stores  white in color and compact.

Garlic & Potatoes

Yesterday while I was laying the drip pipeline a little potato plant was in the way. More curious to see the potato development than work around it, I pulled out the potato plant and dug out four medium sized Red Russet Potatoes.

Today evening I harvested the Red Russian Garlic (from West Coast Seeds) which we planted last fall. I am more than satisfied with the harvest. Except for a few bulbs most of them were more than 3" in diameter. My wife braided them together and hung it in the patio to air dry it. For this fall we plan to prepare a bed beside the fence and sow more of them.

There's more Garlic which I plan to harvest in a couple of weeks. I think this fall we might try a few more varieties of Garlic and more in quantity.

Broccoli

We have been having some good warm weather of late but last week's heat wave was good for the tomatoes and eggplants but not for the Broccoli. It bolted and shot up flowers. However this was only with one plant which is the senior most. The others are doing well and I hope they don't bolt!

Saturday harvest

Here's today's harvest - Zucchini and Red Onions. The Onions didn't grow well as I hoped for but it wasn't bad as I planted them in the bed near the fence which wasn't fertile. This was my first attempt but the next time I plan to sow them in the raised beds along with other vegetables. The Zucchini is doing good and there are more growing!

More Tomato beds

It's been some time I updated this blog. Two weeks back I transplanted more tomato plants in the new raised beds beside the garden shed. Also I added a drip irrigation line to irrigate them with a soaker hose and covered with straw as mulch.  The varieties are Beefsteak and Sasha's pride. Today morning when I checked the bed I noticed more tomato saplings growing! This was from the compost which I added and this compost had tomato seeds from the kitchen waste which we throw it in the composter. There are seven tomato plants growing in the 20 gallon pails and I moved them near this bed today. I am still connecting the pipes to drip irrigate them and I am hoping to finish it tomorrow. This is to take care of them when we are gone on a two week holiday in the last week of July.

Broccoli & Zucchini

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This year we have had the longest spring with cool weather extending into July. This is unusual with temperatures at six degrees C below normal. This is good for the brassicaceae we are growing but I suspect the hot weather vegetables like tomatoes, peppers & eggplants may be delay fruit setting. We just checked the Broccoli & Zucchini starting to form. The other day I hand pollinated the Zucchini so I expect it to form into a full sized Zucchini. Also we transplanted more tomatoes in two new raised beds beds which I'll post later in the day.