Heriz-Smith

This is the time when there are weeks weeds everywhere: weeds in the paths, weed in the beds, weeds in the borders. Weeds everywhere. At the same time though, lots of plants look really good. The leeks look great, the potatoes are doing well, the beets look really good. The French beans are about ready for the first picking, we picked our first cherry tomatoes two days ago, and so on. A lot of lettuce has bolted, I do need to pull it all up and put it on the compost. And I need to buy some BT for the brassicas. They started out looking so good under the row covers but once they grew too big for that, the moths found them. I picked the first Kohlrabi this morning, it’s beautiful.

I finished planting the bed of Lincoln leeks this morning. About 100 in. I will plant the remaining flat close together in a bed to grow as finger thick leeks.

Not all, but I got 75 of the Lincoln leeks planted. We could really use some rain - the soil was so dry that it tumbled into the holes as I tried to drop the leeks in.

144 Bleu de Solaize leeks in the fourth bed from the top in the second garden, where I had potatoes last year. These are the leeks I plan to over-winter. I still need to put in the Lincoln leeks. So much to do.

Three more varieties of potato in the new garden - Katahdin, Bintje, and Keuke Gold