The amount of time elapsed on normal calendars between when Christina 1st came to look at our garden and discuss what FiMBY could help us with (12 June) and the day a lot of Lottie’s Lot was planted out (11 September) was exactly 1 day less than 3 months. Which would seem great to normal people, especially when you consider that at least a month of this time was FiMBY’s annual 1 month winter break and Christina was overseas for a few weeks of it.
But I’m not a normal human. For me those months were endlessly endless. Painfully slow. My mind started to melt with the time not passing.
I find it hard to believe that less time has passed since our garden was established than passed between those long between-Christina-visits phase. (I.e. only 2 1/2 months.) Not because nothing has been happened but because so much has.
This photo sort of sums up what’s happening in our garden at the moment:
The Noble but Mutantly Huge Bok Choy Dwarfs the New Crops
We’re moving from the time when the main vegetable other than lettuces was bok choy to a time when there will be much more variety. See the noble but mutantly huge bok choy? We only have a few (enormous and flowering) ones left. Scott’s getting a bit sick of bok choy so I have to be a bit more creative with it now, but this is happening just in time for the new veggies coming to the harvest party, carrots (white belgian, lubyana, and red cored in this photo) and snow peas – yes!!
And there’s promise of lots more: the tomatoes plants have doubled in size and have started flowering (this is just in 1 1/2 weeks!), there are all sorts of beans and peas sprouting out of the ground, and although the blueberries, raspberries, red currants, and jostaberries are no where near being ripe yet they all have fruit on them that is recognisably fruit.
And we still have lots of salad greens. LOTS. Which is fantastic! I think salads are great – there’s so many things you can do to them. And I enjoy scaring people I work with by presenting enormous bags of mixed greens to them; it amuses me when where is so much abundance of greens all they can think of to do with them at first is to bathe in them. (If you live in the Hobart area and have a bathtub you need filled with salad greens, please contact me.)
Summer starts tomorrow!