Ending and Beginning

Picked another 8 ears of beautiful corn today.

Buckwheat is blooming and about 18″ tall.

Yesterday we harvested another 5 beautiful ears of corn. The first harvest was 5 ears about a week ago.

The tomatoes have blight and all the foliage is dying. We’re harvesting lots of ripe tomatoes from the dead vines so far, but that’s going to be it for tomatoes for the year.

Watered buckwheat, kale, chard, beets, kohlrabi seeds/seedlings. Mowed lawn and dumped about 20 gallons of grass clippings into garden to cover areas of bare ground.

Had the idea of using the ‘pit,’ the space just south of the greenhouse, as garden area. Why not? It gets full sun and isn’t used for anything else.

Kale is fast becoming one of my favorite vegetables and I’ve been eating it twice a day at least. It’s good raw or cooked, tastes good with many things or by itself in a salad, is nutritious, frost-tolerant, and very easy to grow. It’s one of those rare vegetables that is not constantly looking for a reason to die. I want to try growing some late and early in the greenhouse.

Also, saw two honey bees (and several bumblebees) visiting catnip flowers in the garden.

that was fast, what, 5 days?

and some other pics from the garden today: