Food & Drink May 10, 2013 at 11:18 am

Pea Season!

Goldy
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Nothing ripe yet, except some volunteer rainbow chard from last year and a few carrots and onions that overwintered. And a single asparagus grown in mostly shade.
Matt the Engineer on May 10, 2013 at 11:21 AM Report this
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I haven't planted yet, which is good given that I got a blizzard last week (18" of snow overnight that melted in 3 days). Such is spring in Minnesota. But there will be basil, broccoli, sweet corn, and okra.
Griffin on May 10, 2013 at 11:31 AM Report this
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Here's hoping everyone's spring is full of pea-ness.
on May 10, 2013 at 11:37 AM Report this
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Planted some beets in a small bit of garden at my mother's home. I don't know how to do the spacing well. The greens will be nice, but the beet roots themselves will be smaller than a pea.
seatackled on May 10, 2013 at 11:40 AM Report this
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Ah, full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
Theodore Gorath on May 10, 2013 at 11:40 AM Report this
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I have a tiny pot in front of the window. It grows wheat grass for my goat-cat. It's the only way to keep him from eating the apartment complex's landscaping.
ScienceNerd on May 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM Report this
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I love your garden stories, Goldy, though depressed I don't have any garden stories to tell, too.
Bugnroolet on May 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM Report this
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Garlic is 18-24" tall
Shallots are 6-10" tall
Onions from seed: 3"
Chard is 12"
Peas: 3/1 planting 12", 4/1 planting 4"

All waiting for the African Slug to demolish...
ScandalMgr on May 10, 2013 at 11:48 AM Report this
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I believe the term is 'peason.'
Zebes on May 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM Report this
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Finally got the spinach and butter lettuce planted. Most years I can get two or three rotations in before it gets too hot, but because I waited so long (we had snow just over a week ago) I expect this to be it until the early fall.

Frost can happen as late as May 15 but I think we have had our last one, so this weekend I'll plant my three sisters and start my tomatoes. The latter won't be ripe until August, probably, but what can you do when winter won't go away.

Oh, and swiss chard. It grows very easily here.
Matt from Denver on May 10, 2013 at 11:51 AM Report this
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@5 Ha!

Pea-ness! There's a lot of it in Goldy's garden. Where is the peaness in your garden or kitchen?
seatackled on May 10, 2013 at 12:01 PM Report this
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@11
Er, I mean "your" in the general sense.
seatackled on May 10, 2013 at 12:02 PM Report this
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I managed to find some sunny spots to grow tomatoes.
Pope Peabrain on May 10, 2013 at 12:25 PM Report this
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I'm growing a fine crop of slugs and snails. Oh, and amazing volunteer weeds.
treacle on May 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM Report this
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I've gotten a pound or so of tatsoi and spinach so far, and my first lettuce last night. Peas are struggling against weevils and something else--birds? leaf cutting bees? Hopefully they will soon outgrow it. My mini napa cabbages have started heading. This year I've been keeping it covered to keep the cabbage flies away. So far so good.

My extra early garlic has scapes (which I need to cut off) so that should be done soon in time to put tomatoes in after (and basil and shiso.) I'm cloching that bed this year.

Anyway: blood meal fertilized bed plus Bloomsdale starts = a shit ton of spinach.
viiless on May 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM Report this
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Yay, garden chat!

A goddamn varmint ate the pea seeds from my February sowing, so I resowed in March. I suppose that means I have pea-ness envy. New seedlings are about 8" tall now, so "peason" isn't far away.

In the "leftover from last winter department", we've got a bit of lettuce, which is getting more bitter each day (not unlike myself). I suppose I should yank it. Also not unlike myself. There's also a couple dozen leeks and some chard, both of which are threatening to go to seed. And some overwintering broccoli flowers, arugula seed pods, and mustard seed pods, all delicious in stir fry or salads.

Fresh this spring we've got rhubarb, lettuce, spinach, pac choi, beet greens, and chard. The spuds (4 kinds) and broccoli are about 16 inches tall, and I just planted my Kubocha squash seedlings last week. The cold frame is stuffed with tomato, pepper, eggplant, Hubbard squash, and pumpkin starts. Those will go into tunnel cloches this weekend, except for the peppers and egplants, which will wait until June.

And Holy Shit it's almost time to plant seeds for the winter garden!
Lonesome Cowboy Burt on May 10, 2013 at 12:56 PM Report this
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A volunteer potato from the previous owner, some new kiwi vines, 6 tomatoes snuggy inside wall-o-waters, and a lot of chicken poop.
Superjivus on May 10, 2013 at 1:29 PM Report this
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I got a few peas about a month ago, but since then it's gotten hot enough to dry out & kill the plant. Ditto with my butter & red leaf lettuces -- I just harvested all that I'm likely to get this year, and I think that garden slugs got at least as much of them as I did.

My tomato plant already looks promising, and I am currently begging my they-looked-so-promising-a-month-ago strawberries not to die. It's time to start some melon & corn seeds.
jhops on May 10, 2013 at 1:45 PM Report this
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My dog always eats my pea vines. I was going to plant them somewhere more protected, but I've learned from Dan that a few swift punches to the jaw should solve the problem.
Matt the Engineer on May 10, 2013 at 1:51 PM Report this
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3 kinds of lettuce, edamame, mizuna, hourenso (spinach), 2 kinds of peas, daikon, negi, tamanegi, cabbage, cucumbers, string beans, jagaimo (potatoes), yamaimo (mountain potato), yomogi. soon to have sweet corn, bok choi and 2 kinds of tomatoes.

viva hatake!
on May 10, 2013 at 4:55 PM Report this
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I'm sticking to tomatoes, but at least was able to set them out early this year. Portland's in the midst of a severe drought, within strike of breaking the previous record (2005).

Apart from that: a new Shore Pine, set out in late February.
Dr. Z on May 10, 2013 at 6:53 PM Report this
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@19: THREADJACK! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR THRADJACKING!
TVDinner on May 10, 2013 at 8:47 PM Report this
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Coca, poppies, shrooms, and cannabis
S T on May 10, 2013 at 9:31 PM Report this
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We had our last(?) snow only a week ago, so not a lot going on here, yet. Except rhubarb, and even that's not really big enough to harvest yet. Most years I put up vast quantities of strawberry rhubarb jam which we give out as little "thank yous" e.g to the kids' school teachers. But I may have to supplement with store bought stalks this spring, given that school ends in only two weeks.
Eric from Boulder on May 10, 2013 at 9:58 PM Report this
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I have kale and chard left over from the fall, already a little buggy (aphids on the chard and green caterpillars/future cabbage butterflies on the kale). My red leaf lettuce is about 3inches tall, no bugs whatsoever. Pepper plants and tomato plants about a foot tall (planted indoors in Feb/March). The big mat of watercress in the tub is going to be tasty tossed with the lettuce and kale in a week or two.
Sandiai on May 11, 2013 at 3:51 AM Report this
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Harvested my first artichoke today, and witnessed house sparrows eating my pea vines :-(
elaineinballard on May 12, 2013 at 11:06 PM Report this

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