Sorry for the delay in writing another garden update. The mid summer garden continues to grow and produce fairly well. The onions were harvested about 2 weeks ago and the harvest was decent. Two rows of the yellow Candy onion developed a leaf disease and most of those plants did not grow very big or rotted in the ground. The tight spacing and the very wet May probably was the cause. The other rows did not seem to be affected by this. The harvest on spring planted broccoli is just about finished. I have been harvesting many side shoots from these plants over the last month. Harvest started on the celery.
The Silver Queen white corn is growing really well and harvest should start within the week, YUM!! Harvest continues to ramp up on the hot banana peppers and the first harvest of cucumbers will be starting within the week. Harvested the 4 large fabric bags of Red Norland potatoes. Harvest was fair with about 8 to 10 pounds of potatoes harvested out of these 4 bags. Will be harvesting the potatoes out of the two 4ftx4ft raised beds in about another week.
I have planted 2 empty garden areas with green beans over the last 3 weeks. The roma tomato plants continue to have issues with a leaf disease, but will continue to water and fertilize them in hope on getting a decent harvest. Seeds of broccoli, cabbage, kohlrabi, cauliflower, and lettuce were started in cell packs on July 4th, for transplanting out into the garden in the first and second week of August (for a fall crop).
The weather has been pretty hot and dry, but received some much needed rain over the last 2 weeks, but more rain is needed. Will have to start watering the garden again if the dry conditions persist.
