{"id":10288,"date":"2020-06-08T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10288"},"modified":"2020-06-08T03:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:15:58","slug":"notes-from-the-garden-may-early-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10288","title":{"rendered":"notes from the garden: may &#038; early june 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983566161\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Early June Garden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983566161_3e9d0af982_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Early June Garden\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t give an update on the garden last month, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I wasn&#8217;t going. Thank goodness, right?<\/p>\n<p>This shot was before Rudi and I did some work today. Rudi pulled out a lot of weeds and planted some new seedlings. We now have half a dozen basil plants, a half dozen tomatoes, several peppers, a zucchini, and a cucumber in addition to the plethora of herbs and spring veggies. I harvested the rest of the arugula today, unearthing a bed of lettuce beneath it and will probably pull the spinach later this week. I will need to thin the sorrel again. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983836822\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Pea Blossoms\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983836822_766f797db3_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Pea Blossoms\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The pea blossoms of early May have mostly turned into pods. They were super happy when Rudi and I finally tracked down some taller stakes, since the tallest shoots extend past the six-foot mark.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983826567\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Peas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983826567_b3e73f9bac_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Peas\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have at least three kinds of peas &#8212; shelling peas, purple sugar snap peas, and green sugar snap peas. I also have fava beans, but they are really short this year, so I&#8217;m not sure they&#8217;ll survive the resident fauna.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any strawberry photos, but rest assured that we&#8217;ve been picking a couple each time we visit the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Plants that yield later in the season are starting to make themselves known:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983828377\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Cucumber Flower\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983828377_79b3c41de6_w.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Cucumber Flower\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983048858\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Tomorrow&#x27;s Tomatoes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983048858_748dc9a4b8_w.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Tomorrow&#x27;s Tomatoes\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983833127\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Not Yet Blackberries\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983833127_8b8557bc31_w.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Not Yet Blackberries\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We are not without our challenges. We have had a lot of rain this spring. I thought I&#8217;d lost both the dahlia and the gerber daisy I planted, but the dahlia shows signs of being hardier than the vast amount of water soaking it.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983046598\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Comeback\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983046598_ccd6286a1c_w.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Comeback\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also a side effect of the rain, are these guys:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983055058\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Slugs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983055058_c218b6db87_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Slugs\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pardon the blurry shot. This was the first day we put out beer last month. There are fewer slugs in the garden now, but those that remain &#8212; clearly the teetotalers &#8212; are voracious. Rudi has to fight them for his strawberries.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49983834052\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Peter or Maybe Petra\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49983834052_86a2b4c525_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Peter or Maybe Petra\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the mammalian residents of the garden include Peter (or perhaps Petra?) and a smaller bunny, as well as the rats that hang out in the compost. I squealed in my mother&#8217;s ear over the phone one evening, when a rat took a shortcut home to the forest through my plot and came inches from running over my foot. 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