Grow Your Own – Mutiny Among The Bounty
by John Weckerle
The garden has been giving us substantial yields pretty much every day. We’ve now dined on the green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, lettuce, radishes, peppers, and cauliflower. Today’s harvest was special in that we brought in the first four heads of broccoli. These may well end up as cream of broccoli soup, using a recipe from Martha Stewart, that uses a veloute instead of bechemel base. The “test carrots” are noticeably bigger, and I suspect we’ll be hauling those in before long.
However, we’ve been finding some compromised tomatoes and the occasional slightly-chewed green bean, and there are holes in the broccoli leaves – ditto for the cabbage and kale in Bed 4. We suspect that mice are behind the mangled beans and tomatoes, and caterpillars would be the prime suspects in the cabbage/kale caper. We have not yet found any on the affected plants, but we’re keeping an eye out.
Today's harvest, minus the lettuce and green beans.
2 Responses “Grow Your Own – Mutiny Among The Bounty”
Gorgeous … but then your Grow Your Own pics always are. Sharing this on the local farmers market page (to incite envy, admiration – hopefully emulation)
Thanks, Vanessa! There are more coming; Sunday’s rain and yesterday’s sun set us up for a bumper crop of zucchini, cucumbers, and grape tomatoes.