Currently enjoying a salad of overwintered kale and cabbage, beet greens from thinning the sprouts, a couple radishes, and snap peas, with sunflower seeds and fresh dill sprinkled on top. I just added grocery store cucumber and bell pepper, because I was behind on planting those. This is what we do it for!

As an aside, imgur changed their url handling and my habit of using the i.imgur links to mirror here no longer works. Anyone got a recommendation for a luddite like myself?

First good harvests of basil and sorrel. A few cherry tomatoes but full production hasn’t started yet. Pluots are coming ripe, and ornamental passion fruits, which most people do not deem edible, but I do :)

We’ve had a relatively cool start to summer which the plants have been loving. My citrus is even still blooming which is quite unusual.

Carrots appear to have mostly died unfortunately, and a stupid groundhog keeps eating the leaves off my squash plants. I’ve been trying to chase him off for a while now.

I have a lot of sage growing hard and fast so I’m going to have to harvest some this weekend to prevent the plants from collapsing.

Now I’m regretting not planting tomatoes, would have made a nice soup with the sage.

Recipe ideas with sage anyone? 😅

In other news: I introduced a beetle into my terrarium that I thought would help eat the little flies that got in there. Turns out my research was wrong and the beetle is a herbivore that’s eating the plants in my terrarium… Whoops. I haven’t seen it since I put it in there, but I have seen leaves getting slowly chomped up and a lot of tiny poops on the plants and glass.

Fortunately it seems to dislike everything that’s not a fern, so I’m expecting everything to work out. Or maybe the beetle will show up and I’ll take it out again. At least it’s been interesting 😂

Plenty of rain lately, so almost everything is growing a lot. Some of the jackfruits that I planted last year are still struggling, but most of them had some root damage during transplant, so I’m not surprised. Some of the new engkalas are really taking off now, despite everything in the world trying to kill them. I recently direct-seeded some Flemingia macrophylla as an alley crop in one area, but it hasn’t come up yet… I’m mainly doing maintenance this month: pruning some bigger trees, removing all of the little guavas that sprout up, and planting more pinto peanut. The grass is growing back in many areas, but I’ll keep chopping it down and uprooting it in front of the pinto peanut so that that can take over.

Edit: I smell a ripe jackfruit. I guess I’ll be eating that today.