Tour of the Spring Garden - Part 2

The first part of the tour was the flower photos. Now on to the main attraction which is the actual plants.

These are my two rhubarb plants. The one on the left is huge. The one on the right is struggling. I'm wondering if I should just put it out of its misery.

We got 2.7" of rain in the storm. It really perked all the plants up. The garlic was getting some brown tips, but now they seem to be happy again. I probably should have watered.

My onions perked up quit a bit too.

The baby Asian greens are in the circle garden under a row cover. Some are almost ready to harvest.

I have three beds with brassicas in them. The baby Asian greens is the first. This is the main brassica bed. It contains a huge mix of things from cabbage to Komatsuna. From kohlrabi to Napa cabbage. The Asian greens in the bed are really taking off. They always seem to grow more quickly than the other brassicas.

The broccoli is growing well. I can't wait for a harvest. Not from this plant though. This is a late broccoli. The early one which is Windsor is right next to it. I'm hoping this variety, Fiesta, will keep growing all summer and fall. The hope is for a continual supply of side shoots.

The above broccoli shares a bed with the Swiss chard. I grow Argentata because it is lower in oxalic acid than the other chards. Supposedly. I've got no proof of that except what my seed packet tells me.

The lettuce that self seeded and grew during the winter is almost big enough to thin out and harvest.

The largest of the peas are just starting to grab onto the first string of the trellis.

I swear the radishes tripled in size since the rain started. And their roots have started to size up too.

The fava beans look so pretty. It is always shocking how fast they grow to start. But then their seeds are very big.

The carrots have their first true leaves. No one has ever accused a carrot of growing fast. Not even after a rain.

All four of my mint plants look so pretty and lush. It won't be long before the first harvest.

The herb circle has recovered from its transplanting.

And last but not least, I have flowers coming up that I seeded. These are the sunflowers. They really took no time at all to germinate. I'll wait until they get a bit bigger before thinning them out. I love plants where you can just toss in seed and they grow.

I didn't quite get everything in the tour, but I got most of the plants growing in the main garden. I did miss some herbs. Cilantro, rosemary, coriander and such. The mustards were overlooked. As were the newly planted celery, and bunching onions. And this time the spinach got left out too. But it has been photographed so many times in the last week. It is such a camera hog in the spring. I think the peas might steal the spotlight soon though. They are growing so fast.