Cylia's Blog – June 2011 Archive (3)

Last year I concocted kale pesto and froze batches of it. It has a rather dark flavor and we're still eating it.

This year, we planted daikon radishes and red frilly mustard and perhaps they weren't planted early enough or the plants decided to go to seed because of the warm/cold wet weather instead.  Who knows?  Instead of having long beautiful daikon roots to harvest, we have short stumpy roots and lots of greens and flowers. The greens by themselves are pretty bitter so we googled…

Certain veggies seem to thrive in our conditions and don't care if the spring was cold and wet. Yes, they are leeks and kale. Ever since I started planting these vegetables in my garden three years ago, I have never regretted these easy care plants. Both overwinter here no problem (with good drainage) and during the summer need occasional watering and not much else.

My kale plants keep on seeding themselves in my plot and when I harvest the young leaves, the plant just keeps on…

The weather has turned and we are receiving clear blue sky and sunshine. My patio tomatoes are looking very healthy and are flowering. I need to start the basil soon.

Sunday and Monday were spent weeding out a mustard-like self-seeder from one garden plot at MOBY. That is one hazard of taking over someone else's plot. Last year we pulled out some huge celery like plants from this plot. After six hours of weeding, I can now see the onions, leeks, lemon balm, peas, nasturtiums, daikon…