What's Growing

Let's see what's growing in the potager this month ...

 

Most of the lettuce mixes can be clipped. Mustard greens, too. I am so ready for fresh greens from the garden!

Rainbow swiss chard, one of my favorites.

Sunflowers reaching for the sun.

Something new this year, chinese cabbage and horseradish.

Garlic scapes!

I have been enjoying these sauteed over pasta and rice, and in eggs.

I also enjoyed my first rhubarb harvest.

 

I found a wonderful Heidi Swanson recipe for strawberry rhubarb crumble that incorporates toasted pine nuts. Truly delicious.

 

Basil seedlings. I planted a generous patch with high hopes for another big batch of pesto like last year.

Another new addition, broccoli rabe. The taller ones I started early indoors.

I have a huge wave of calendula that came up from last year. Into the salads they go!

Royal burgundy bush beans and soy beans. I can't wait to try fresh edamame.

 

Scarlet runner beans so short and already flowering. They are not climbing the trellis as I had hoped.

The brandywine tomatoes are beginning to flower.

My peppers are actually growing! These are hot – cayenne, jalepeno and red chile.

Cauliflower veronica.

Brussel sprouts.

Scallop, or patty pan squash.

Snap peas (planted in late March).

I think I will have a crop of blueberries from the Bluecrop blueberry bush!