2 posts tagged “vegetables”
With apologies to JJBT....
I would like to announce the engagement of Cucumber and String Bean. Neighbors their entire lives, they finally felt the need to bridge the gap.
Pretty well, at least for the moment.
It's definitely getting taller. (See comparison in picture included in this post). We've also gotten something other than fire radishes from it. (By the way, P heard a show about gardening on NPR the other day that said that when radishes are allowed to dry out, and go back and forth between being wet and dry, they lose their flavor. So apparently my regular watering may be the reason for the extreme flavor).
The cucumbers have started maturing, and they are veeeery yummy.
Some are strangely yellow, but they are crispy and fresh tasting none the less.
While we were gone the rabbits discovered the radishes and ate all they could take of the fire vegetables. There were chewed up radishes laying about and all the leaves were gone (far right, just outside the picture). Meanwhile, the arugula that I planted to the right of the barrier (hiding under the canteloupe plants) made a run for it-- there's a bunch of it on the other side of the plastic barrier. Weird, no? I suspect that there was a hole in the seed packet and when I was holding the packet, about the tip the seeds into my hand for planting on the right a bunch escaped out the bottom into the pile among the strawberry plants.
It looks like we might get a few strawberries, though the plants are young, so it may not be more than a handful. This plant in particular has sent out lots of shoots, so I'm hoping for more next year.
We may finally get watermelons, too, if these little plants hold their own against the ever expanding cucumbers. But they're flowering, and I've seen bees, so I'm hopeful. I'll probably break down and cut back the cukes a bit.
In our absence all the dill got eaten but these ravenous little buggers. I'm glad they didn't go buck wild on anything else, but both pots of dill have given up the ghost.
