Anticipation Is a New Vegetable

Having never grown Kohlrabi before, I have been carefully watching its habits. 9 to a square for the square foot method seems to be adequate so far. And can you see it, there among the leaves?


The beginnings of a bulb of Kohlrabi!

I have no idea what it will taste like or how much longer before I'll be able to find out, but it is eating me up with anticipation (no pun intended). What a strange little alien looking plant.

Magic Peas

Planted on St. Patrick's day, I've been impatient for peas. in the past few days I have been rewarded with lovely white flowers that look like ladies in white bonnets glancing shyly over their shoulders. I can just imagine how pleased they must be to see a gentleman bee come a courtin'.

In the evening, when the light hits a pea pod in just the right way, it glows. I shall always think of peas as being magic because of this beautiful trick of the light.

Square Foot Salad

Salad lettuces, spinach interspersed, chard, kale, collards, peas, carrots, kohlrabi (never tried this before, I'm SO excited!), nasturtiums, a few beets, even some red cups full of slug bait! My favorite is a mixed green salad fresh from this bed with a little vinegar and olive oil, it just tastes like spring.

Cool season crops seem to grow so fast, this is only a week later!

Kohlrabi, Ruby Chard and Spinach

Tasty Lettuces and Nasturtiums

Bean Monsters

These little guys are so much fun. One day you've got a nice, quiet bed of mulch.
The next, you've got little mounds of mulch that looks like small underground monsters pushing up from the depths.

And then you've got beans!

If you're away for more than a few days, you miss all the action. I love how violently they emerge from the earth. Break free, little beans, break free!