After 2 weeks away!

After a nice vacation, I was looking forward to coming back and seeing the progress in the garden. I had a friend water and check on the garden few times for me while I was out of town. It is amazing how much growing can go on in a few short weeks.

Clockwise from upper left: Mesclun blend going great. Cut about 4" of a row and had a nice big salad. Slobolt Lettuce coming along as well. Radishes at bottom are bulbing up and big enough to start picking. These were sown about 40 days ago (sown 04.06.08).

Easter Egg radishes live up to their name.

Transplanted Buttercruch lettuce

The first row of early sown spinach is a few weeks off from cutting.

Transplanted cabbage (smaller plants) and broccoli raab are doing well. Checking under the leaves of these brassicas revealed tiny yellow and white spherical deposits. No doubt eggs of some sort of moth or white fly. Checking for and removing these eggs twice weekly from the upper and lower leaf surfaces of brassicas will help to control many chewing moth larvae from ever hatching. It's either close monitoring, covering with Remay, or letting it get bad enough to spray with a plant derived-insecticide as a last resort.

This weekend will be busy! Weeds are growing as fast as veggies, heat-loving tropicals need to be transplanted, seeds are waiting to be started, and my back already hurts.