Trellis

Last night we finished the trellis for garden frame two. I can already see the tomatoes and peas stretching into the new space. Tonight, I am hoping to raise the roof on the broccoli another 18 inches. One of our basil plants wilted and dropped leaves after the latest rain storm. It had been struggling with some kind of insect or fungus. It is odd because the other three basil plants in the same garden frame are healthy and undisturbed. In other news, I noticed this morning that another spinach plant has bolted. Stopping by David's garden on the way to work, I saw some beans and lettuce popping up through the soil.

Bounding broccoli, bolting spinach

I made a quick harvest this morning and allowed the broccoli stretch it's legs for a few minutes. I didn't expect the broccoli to reach such a height... One of the spinach plants has bolted (gone to seed).

Eldest daughter and I attempted to build a trellis for frame two but ran out of daylight. We will finish up tomorrow evening, then the peas and tomatoes will have plenty of room to grow.

Note: the camera date is off by four days.

Got milk?

I noticed a quarter size broccoli floret on one of the broccoli plants this weekend. We haven't had time to do anything except keep things watered.

We started a milk share with a local farm this week. Our first two attempts to make butter from the cream failed miserably, but we will try again next week. We made farmers cheese (paneer) with the remaining milk and that turned out fine.

Morning glory

I spent some time in the garden this morning before work, pulling off the frost protection, harvesting greens and pulling some weeds. Everything looks healthy. I don't think it got quite cold enough to frost here.