Baby Vegetables
by Rachel Tayse • June 10, 2010 • Gardening & Pets • 5 Comments
Many of our plants have set flowers and baby vegetables are beginning to appear!
This is an exciting time to be a gardener. All the work starting the seeds, prepping the soil, planting the seedlings, and weeding are starting to pay off.
There is anxiety too. I am struggling to keep something (a squirrel I think?) from eating the flowers off the zucchini plant. I have seen it send out flowers many times but none stay around long enough to go to fruit.
My peas are a lost cause this year, it seems. Despite being covered in bird netting, sparrows have mowed down the leaves such that they never climbed their beautiful trellis. Only the peas in Lil’s garden have set out a few pods.
What’s going on in your garden?
I think I read that the flowers fall off if they haven’t been pollinated? With squash the male flowers come out first, and until the female flowers show up, the males just drop off.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/sqblossomdrop.html
Interesting. I don’t see any flowers on the soil, though. I’m wondering if it still is squirrels? I need to set up a cage with netting.
That’s so cool that you’re growing snowpeas! I started another blog and added picture of my garden. I need to do an update. Because here’s my basil now… http://tweetphoto.com/26495361
Great basil! We grow as much as we can, drying and making it into frozen pesto to preserve.
My kale and bok choy leaves are getting mysteriously eaten by something and the broccoli came out yellow. I’m perplexed as a first time gardener and I thought using raised beds would be easier on a first time gardener.
Help!
But my herbs are doing fantastic.. +1..