Rainfall
- Seventh-Eighth: 0.55″
- 14th: 0.07″
- Sixteenth-Seventeenth: 1.05″
- 18th: 0.37″
- twentieth: 0.2″
- Complete thus far: 2.25 inches
Temperature
- vary of nighttime lows: 39 to 64°F (4 to 18°C)
- vary of daytime highs: 65 to 86°F (18 to 30°C)
Climate Notes
The second week of Could noticed our seasonal climate shift. We acquired our coldest
temperatures the primary week of the month, and the wind blew from northerly
instructions. Then, the wind began coming from the south and the temperature
sample modified. We have had some sizzling days, however largely, it has been superb.
Planted
- watermelon (Orange Glo)
- candy potato slips (largely purples)
- okra (Clemson Spineless)
- grain sorghum (blended seed)
- cherry tomatoes (Matt’s Wild and Tiny Tim)
- summer time squash (Tatume)
- winter squash (Candy Potato)
- pole beans (Cornfield)
- peanuts
- bell pepper transplants (Large Marconi and Pink)
Rising
| Potato flowers |
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| Buckwheat and corn |
The place’s the corn, you ask?
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| Lastly outgrowing the buckwheat! Are you able to see it? |
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| Tomatoes are flowering, however no tomatoes but. |
Harvesting & Consuming
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| Peas, cherries, and the final of the asparagus and strawberries |
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| Pea, asparagus, lettuce, and peanut salad |
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| Cherry pie |
was price it. The remaining pickings might be frozen so as to add to jelly or
wine.
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| Lambs quarter |
Years in the past, once I first began harvesting lambs quarter for consuming and
canning, I adopted the recommendation to reap it when it was beneath one foot tall. I
minimize down the stalks and picked off all of the leaves. I’ve since found out a
faster and simpler approach, one that provides me an extended harvest too.
leaves that develop on the finish of the stalk and branches.
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| I minimize them on the base of the leaves. |
When harvested like that, all that is required is to clean and cook dinner them.
No robust stems to discard, and the vegetation will develop new clusters of leaves
that may be picked regardless of how massive the plant will get. I discover I can harvest this
approach till they flower and go to seed.
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| Canning lambs quarter, a favourite cooked inexperienced. |
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| Oregano drying |
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Daikon radish over a foot lengthy! Regardless that it is massive, it is nonetheless candy and makes a wonderful addition in our salads. |
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| Chopped peas & asparagus, grated daikon, feta cheese, & exhausting boiled egg. |
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| Kimchi |
Not Harvesting
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| Multiplier onions and garlic. |
I’ve gotten a really poor harvest of those. I am guessing it is as a result of our winter was so chilly that the majority of them did not make it. Some years are like that.
There you’ve got it. Could has been a busy month within the backyard. How about you?
