May and June are definitely the fun part of having a vegetable garden for me. The weather isn’t too hot yet, and every day I see new growth. In a few weeks I’ll start harvesting. At the moment I’m just enjoying how lovely my garden looks and getting excited about baby veggies. In addition to being tasty, the pea vines in particular have such pretty flowers.
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| 'Dwarf Grey Sugar Pea Pod' bloom |
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| Baby 'Burpless' cucumber with flower |
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| Chives have such pretty flowers, too. |
I’m pretty much done planting, but it’s not so hot yet that I can’t plant more if I want to. Once a week or so I’ll find an empty pot or some room in the dirt and plant something. I used to map out my garden plan and planting schedule ahead of time, but in the last few years I've found joy in letting my vegetable garden develop more "organically," so to speak. There are always leftover seeds around my house, or plants calling my name at my favorite local garden centers. I don't know whether I'll end up being busy one weekend, so I plant whatever I think will grow in the time I have.
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| Left to right: Peas, carrots, strawberries, and cucumbers (plus a mystery plant, probably pumpkin, that volunteered itself in the middle of the cucumbers) |
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| Left to right: tomatoes (which you can barely see under the potatoes), potatoes, asparagus |
This past week I planted some old zinnia seeds between the cucumbers and the strawberries. The week before I planted more scarlet runner bean seeds to accompany the one that survived from last year. The beans are loving this heat, and the last one emerged yesterday. The jalapeño likes the heat as well—I planted seeds a month ago, and the one that germinated finally has true leaves. I should plant more in another pot.
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| 'NuMex Lemon Spice' jalapeno seedling |
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| Scarlet runner bean seedling |
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