Transition

I feel like I don't remember this happening last year, but I am sure it did. We are currently in transition from our cooler weather crops to our hot summer crops and we may have pushed it a little too far with our lettuces and radishes.  With the mild spring, we planted successive crops of our greens and radishes but maybe we should have held off on the last one. Just in the past week, most of the lettuce got very bitter and all of the radishes developed a very tough skin and woody and hollow inside. It was a good thing we tasted these things on Friday night before we picked for market because I would have hated to sell an inferior product on Saturday.

 

The cold frames have done their job and we have ripped almost everything 

out of there as you can see it is rather warm inside! 

On Friday we pulled all of the lettuce out (we were able to sell only about 10 heads) and all of the radishes and made our compost pile very happy. We are now waiting for the flowers, green beans, tomatoes, eggplant, and garlic to grow as we transition into our next phase. Until then, there is plenty of weeding and watering to do!

Compost pile

Garlic