What’s growing in this mid-Atlantic community garden plot in mid-May?

Our herbs are doing well. Rosemary and sage and lemon thyme survived the winter, to which this week we added regular thyme we picked up on our way out of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.

I must remember to cut the sage back after the flowers pass.

Several vines of peas survived my lackadaisical treatment. I hope they are happier now they have somewhere to climb.

Spring greens are flourishing. Rudi chopped all the flowers off the arugula after they got leggy. (He tasted them first to see if they were salvageable.) And we’re picking the larger lettuce leaves in the hopes of making our two bigger heads last a bit while the next crop takes hold.

We spotted a row of tiny colorful chard sprouts growing from seeds we planted last month, but we supplemented with seedlings from the market this week.

We planted peppers and tomatoes a couple weeks back and they seem to be doing fine.

And in a couple of weeks, our garden should offer us sweet incentive to stop by often.

Not too shabby for mid-May, I’d say…