Our lettuce seems slow to grow this year. DW planted seeds about two weeks ago and it's just sprouting. I'm hoping to have fresh lettuce soon. We don't have grow tunnels or cold frames, so we have to wait a bit later to put the seeds in the ground. Perhaps next year I'll get cold frames or tunnels set up. That just wasn't a project for this year as I had (and still have) plenty of other projects to get done.I'm so sorry Alfie, that sounds miserable. The smell of coffee and fresh bread do wonders for me.
Mainly because she's broody and that's making her irritable, but she attacked Mahogany and totally freaked out Dotty. It was kind of funny, two of the higher ranking hens (Amelia and Queenie) saw she was acting aggressive and put her in her place afterward. She's been in jail for about 24 hours now and has calmed down a lot but she's still ticking like a feathered time bomb so her sentence isn't done yet. From what I've read, a couple more days will hopefully solve it.
Oh I'm so glad, that'll be the next purchase, thanks!
My snap peas produced far more than we could eat but they made great pickles. The yellow and green bush beans were both duds for me.
I love pickled green beans, I'll go to Roseburg later when the bean season is going and buy some for canning and pickling. Ohhh and maybe some wax beans too for three bean salad! I love that stuff so I guess I'm officially an old lady.
If I had more space for raised beds I'd plant peas just for fresh eating.
I potted up more zucchini (I'll post pics once I see they are doing well) and cleaned out some of the huge cloth pots for reuse. And I won't have to buy any more salad greens for as long as I can keep everything from bolting. Buttercrunch:View attachment 2649964
And the slug & snail bait seems to be working for now anyway.