The sunflowers started blooming this week, about 92 days after planting. The variety is Russian Mammoth. They are tall, and beloved by bees.
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Cabbage Splits!
So maybe we waited a -little- too long. All three cabbage were pulled today, and the green one was beginning to split. Some claim that such splitting indicates over-watering, or perhaps watering more than usual (extra rains). However, I think cabbages just do that when they’ve decided they’re big enough. Perhaps both are true; quoting one web source: "Splitting is caused by the pressure of excessive water taken up after the heads are solid." One of the red cabbages looked a bit bigger than last week, but the other did not. It was time to harvest.
A Squash Mystery
We harvested several pattypan squash on Wednesday and Alan noticed that some of the squashes appeared to be growing upside down. It seems like these 2 different squashes were grown on 2 different plants.
Very strange.
Beans Update
Beans planted the same time often yield about the same time. However, we’re getting a few early beans. No one can tell the soybeans (several inches taller than the bush beans) had ever struggled against leaf-eating pests when seedlings. At first glance, one could see no soybean prospects. But hidden under the top canopy of leaves, close to the stem, one finds bunches. Plenty to look forward to!
Cabbage and Cauliflower Update
Three small cabbage remain in the garden. Some questioned whether they would grow any larger. It was said that cabbages can be unpredictable as to how big they get. It was also said that these three wouldn’t get any bigger. But since it was pointed out that having different colored cabbage would be nice for the schoolchildren to observe, we decided to wait-and-see another week.
The cauliflower (and cabbage?) seeds planted two and three weeks ago were unsuccessful. Last week (in my absence) more were planted, but this time under shade cloth, and they sprouted.
The coming tomato flood
The tomatoes are coming along very nicely, in control of a sizable swatch of garden land in the back left (thanks to Michael for giving a reference point for how high some of the plants are getting). Big clumps of fruit, some ripening and some not yet, are everywhere, and a grape variety is barely going to be able to stay upright, if each from its forest of blossoms becomes a fruit.
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