Early June, Porch view.

From last week - again, one million shades of green.

Garden Mid-June

A million shades of green: yellow-green garlic blades and bluish kale leaves in the June garden.

Still raining...

Well, in the spirit of "it's always fun to read these things next year," I'll give the most obvious update: It's cold and rainy, and has been for days.    Like, low 50's cold.   Like, cold enough in June to put a cloche over my eggplants (i.e. a fairly large pot.   To keep them warm at night).   Of course this is my first year trying real (i.e. non-asian) eggplants, and of course it gets wicked cold right after I plant them.  

My tomatoes look cold, my peppers are shivering, etc. etc.  The drama of a spring garden.   Maybe early June is the season for whining.   (Example: I think the only time its been warm and sunny was for the long weekend when we went outta town and all the seeds I'd planted withered up from lack of water.  Wah).   

Updates:  I've been forcing myself to eat garden lettuce, knowing that even though it might grow bigger, I've often waited and had lettuce bolt or get bitter before getting to eat it.   So I harvest one plant or two plants per salad (one plant at this stage seems to equal two small servings).  The upside of this is that, since I planted the lettuce in the cucumber plot, the faster we eat the lettuce, the faster we'll be able to plant the cucumbers, if it ever gets warm again.    My arugula looks great, and I use it to supplement my (but not Dawn's) salads.   We also are eating radishes, green onions and herbs.   I planted my hot peppers and I'm avidly reading salsa recipes, excited to eventually use them - the older I've gotten, the more I like just a small amount of spice in my food.  And I did my annual carrot re-plant - you know, the one where my first, carefully curated, two-seeds-every-two-inches, hours-on-my-knees, carefully-dusted-with-fresh sawdust-and-watered-every-day planting yields about fifteen carrot sprouts after weeks of careful spa treatment.  And weeds, it yields lots and lots of weeds.  especially since my compost is "cold" instead of "hot" - which means that any composted seeds aren't killed over the winter.   So for the second planting I'm ripping up all the "volunteer" tomatoes, squash, crabgrass, purslaine and other randomness around my fifteen tiny carrot seedlings, painstakingly trying to preserve them agains the much heartier weeds.     Then I basically dig some lines in the dirt in the empty spots, pour out an ass-ton of carrot seeds, swirl them around a little and say, "good luck!"
  The beets are doing their usual thing of barely coming up and growing slowly.   Well, if they don't shape up, they are going to be bush beans before they know what hit them!  :)

Also, the teensy little potted apple tree I got a few years ago has its very first apples growing...so, so cool!

pictures to come!