Monday, June 7, 2010

Early June 2010...

June 6th, to be exact, at the ranch....
looks like this...
A happy boy sporting his "mosquito" hat , (the only way his poor vulnerable head doesn't get eaten alive...)
And our flowering broccoli immediately follows...(yes, despite the absolute deluge of rain, our broccoli decided to flower on us...before we got to indulge in the beautiful green crowns...uggh...)
And further down, notice our ginormous heads of cabbage and endless supply of oak leaf lettuce...yum!
And, still further down we have our row of potatoes, (still early yet,), our early cauliflower, and our endless spinach, artichokes, and strawberries...
It's still looking a lot like spring here despite the calenday moving into mid JUNE!!! YES you heard me, June...
We had 2 inches of rain last week and I feel like we're living in a rainforest of sorts. But, variety is the spice of life is it not? Despite some moldy strawberries, and some late summer veggies, (namely the tomatoes, eggplants, summer squash, etc that have yet to see our dirt...)and the super high and blown river flows, we are tolerating the rainy early summer quite well.
But, the rain dance CAN stop...
Please...
I think even our frogs have had enough...:-)

2 comments:

Ashley said...

Your veggies look good! I want some!

Sheelagh said...

Your garden is amazing! I find it hard to plant and cultivate a garden while growing kids, which is a shame because they go so well together, as seen here! I LOVE that Forest is just walking among the veggies!!!! TOO COOL!
And yes, we are getting that same rain up here, but I like to pretend I'm in Costa Rica, listening to the rain with open windows while letting the sweet smell waft into the house along with the warm, clean breeze!