A Watched Pot Never Boils

We can't just sit around and wait for the garden to grow. Summer is here, and it's time to get out of town. Last weekend, it rained for days straight, so our plans for raised bed #3 were thwarted. This weekend would have been perfect weather to put it in, but we had other plans that involved Reno (the biggest little city...), Virginia City (where Bonanza was filmed), South Lake Tahoe, and some shameful, forbidden fast food that we can only enjoy when we're far away from the city.

While we were away, the garden apparently had a party, inviting pests to nibble on the squash, the radishes, and even some of the tiny tomato sprouts. We'll have to investigate further and may posts to get input from our readers as to what's eating our garden.

It's been 5 weeks since we planted the radishes, so we finally plucked out one of the biggest ones (they're supposed to be ready in about 4 weeks). And lo and behold, it was a healthy looking (and tasting!) radish. We enjoyed a small salad of arugula, radish, and some infantile carrot thinnings. We're still trying to get the carrots going, and I can only assumed their cramped quarters are stunting growth. We couldn't really taste the carrots, but it seemed better than throwing them in the compost bin.

The radish and carrots straight from the ground:

Now this was funny. The interwebs told me that all radish greens are edible. I beg to differ. This was fuzzy, vegetal (not in a good way), and tough. Maybe a different variety would be different.

Our harvest, all cleaned up:

The final product:

Not a bad way to end a great weekend. And Happy Mother's Day to Candice, Helen, Kathy, and all of our amazing friends who are moms too!