{"id":5349,"date":"2015-07-02T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2015-09-02T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T13:27:48","slug":"edible-garden-in-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=5349","title":{"rendered":"Edible garden in June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"allotment<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m typing this post we are experiencing a record-breaking heat-wave which makes it difficult to remember that there was actually a freakish frost at the beginning of the month. \u2018Freakish\u2019 because frosts are not supposed to happen around here after mid-May. Apparently the weather gods are toying with us! (Again). Fortunately, both our allotment and the community garden are fairly sheltered and so we did not lose any of the non \u2013hardy vegetables that had already been planted out.
\n\"allotment\"allotment<\/p>\n

On the bright size, the freakish heat now means heat-loving vegetables are growing splendidly and tomatoes and eggplant are already bigger and stronger than they ever got last year.<\/p>\n

\"sugar
\nThe sugar snap peas are cropping abundantly and I\u2019m doing my best to keep up. This year, I\u2019m growing the green \u2018Cascadia\u2019 and yellow \u2018Opal Creek\u2019. The \u2018Opal Creek\u2019 plants are taller and a lot more productive but taste-wise I prefer the \u2018Cascadia\u2019 which is plumper and sweeter.<\/p>\n

\"june<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a lot of lettuce that needs to be eaten before it gets a chance to bolt. Fortunately, eating lettuce is something I have trained the whole to do gladly. I\u2019m harvesting white turnips and trying to come up with something else to do with other than roasting.<\/p>\n

\"wild<\/p>\n

Every time we go to the allotment, I spent quite a bit of my time picking the tiny, but delicious wild strawberries that I planted as a ground cover under my fruit trees. The large garden strawberries are tasteless in comparison.<\/p>\n

\"annual<\/p>\n

I wrote a bit about my polyculture bed before and here\u2019s a little update: after I picked bag-fulls of mustard greens, I\u2019m now harvesting small lettuces and tiny carrots. The vegetables need to be picked early, before they are fully grown, in order to make space for other crops. There\u2019s also lots of dill and some beets and spring onions that I\u2019m letting get a little bigger.<\/p>\n

\"fruit<\/p>\n

The fruit tree guilds in the northern part of the garden are looking amazingly lush (considering they are never watered) and the trees are looking healthy. I am working on a chapter about edible forest garden design for my book and trying to formulate some of the things that I\u2019ve been doing intuitively in my guilds.<\/p>\n

\"vegetable<\/p>\n

Polycultures are everywhere in my garden and they can be done on any scale. Here is a small one grown in container: Tuscan kale, lettuce, chard, citrus marigolds, dill and nasturtiums. All of the plants are edible but the herbs also attract beneficial insects (dill, nasturtiums) or confuse pests with their strong scent (citrus marigolds).<\/p>\n

\"nasturtiums\"<\/p>\n

And now, if you\u2019ll excuse me, I think I\u2019m going to hide in the fridge until the temperature returns to some kind of \u2018normal\u2019.<\/p>\n

p.s. Here’s what the garden looked like in June 2013<\/a> and 2014<\/a> and here are some garden jobs for July.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I\u2019m typing this post we are experiencing a record-breaking heat-wave which makes it difficult to remember that there was actually a freakish frost at the beginning of the month. \u2018Freakish\u2019 because frosts are not supposed to happen around here…<\/p>\n

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