June 5-6, 2011 MOBY gardening

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 radishes, lupine, vetch, oregano, red mustard, and lots of calendula that were planted about a month ago. Most of the peas were dug up just after we planted them, perhaps by a mouse or rat or ????  The only new additions were MOBY beans and some garlic.

In the second plot, the overwintered kale has gone to seed so they were harvested. Yummy kale flowers for an omelette or salad tonight. The rest of the seed went into a bag to mature for seed giveaways. Garlic, seed potatoes, red clover, vetch, onions, borage were added into this plot as it looks sparse compared to the other plot. One huge chive bunch was pulled as this plot is too far away when we need fresh chives. They are being dehydrated for future use and chive flowers make a spicy addition for salads or omelettes.

In case you don't know -- lupine, vetch, red clover are nitrogen fixers and add back to the soil while borage, nasturtiums, calendula are companion plants, may have edible flowers and bees love them.

Let's see how my garden grows.