ves's Journal

Here’s one I might want to try next year. But I think I won’t try growing peppers without starting early with row covers. I got one pepper from three different plants this year, all of them apparently healthy plants purchased at the farmer’s market. Shishito peppers http://www.c...

I’ve been holding a few Chiogga beets in the ground until I wanted them — they picked up the same strong throat-burning bitter oxalic acid flavor that swiss chard gets as it matures — so I can’t eat them raw. Now I know. I’ll try cooking the last couple. This is my f...

Tomatoes, beans, calendula. The edible chrysanthemum is in bloom, one blossom at the top with several buds. First carrots out of the French baby carrot square — long and slender and pretty and delicate, but not actually very sweet, at least not raw. Tasty, but not sweet, which I was expecting.

I pulled up my first-ever potatoes tonight. I got two pounds from a square foot of French Fingerlings potatoes. That’s not counting the ones I snuck out from under a few at a time. I had company for dinner and cooked them all at once; they were great. I’ll make the leftovers into pota...

I poked around a little in my radish square and decided one was ready — it was a large as a good size carrot. It’s a very dark purple, almost black. I haven’t tried it yet. I poked around a little in some of the carrot squares and thought I found one ready to harvest. I was wron...