Greetings from Cambridge, Wisconsin. We’re pretty far up north, so we normally don’t get as much heat as most of the country, but this year has started out quite warm, and I think it will be a scorcher. So far, the garden is happy because of abundant and well-timed rain.
Weeds love these great growing conditions as much as veggies. I’m not coming close to keeping up with weeding. The weed taking up too much of my time is bindweed. It’s a wild morning glory. Plant people named it
Convolvulus arvensis, but one of its common and most appropriate names is devil’s weed. The plant is hard to eradicate. It has super survival techniques, including a complex and deep root system, and the ability to have almost any piece of the plant regenerate into a new plant.
While bindweed is the bad news, the good news is food, and the garden is already delivering lots of it. We have been eating snap peas and snow peas,and our crop of soup peas is starting to dry out and will be ready for harvest soon.
Onions are just starting to bulb.
The sweet potato foliage is luxuriant. I want this to be the year I figure out how to control the voles that I’ve had to share the potatoes with since we lost the last of our outdoor cats.
A cauliflower, a few days from harvest.
A zucchini blossom and a little zucchini. The first of what will be lots.
Cucumbers, melons, vining small hard sqaush and tomatillos, all trelliesed and growing upwards.
Tomatoes are days away. We’ll have raspberries in two weeks. Peppers, eggplant, potatoes and more coming soon. We eat well here, and the garden supplies a huge part of our food.
