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ebonypearl) wrote2009-05-30 06:32 pm
First Harvest
Here it is, my first big harvest!
I've been getting a few strawberries here and there and a raspberry, and some small radishes, and lots of herbs and cutting lettuces, but here is my first big harvest - 9 huge sandwich radishes, 14 baby carrots, 9 yellow plum tomatoes, 4 red wonder tomatoes, and a double handful of English peas.
All of these came out of my 2 wading pool gardens, and I expect to harvest more as the summer goes on - I have a ton of blossoms on the tomatoes and quite a few little green tomatoes as well as more that will soon be ready to harvest. I've only a dozen or so radishes left, and ditto for carrots. I will have to seed more. The peas, however seem done, crowded out by the cucumber and tomato vines. Next year, they will have a trellis all to themselves. Ditto for the cucumbers as they are vying hard for the trellis space with my yellow plum tomatoes.
I would have planted more wading pool gardens this year, but nowhere seems to have the kiddie wading pools anymore. They were sold out before Memorial Day. They used to have them all summer long. Perhaps they'll get more in again later. If not, I will have to snag more than a few next year.
I really like gardening in wading pools - the beds are raised, easy to water, no weeds, and very productive. Plus, they are in well-defined spaces and I can move and harvest from all sides. I plan to plant a few flowers - edible ones! - in each pool to add extra color. I may also plant more tomatoes, as I can can the extras in small batch canning sessions.
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Other than salads, I've gotten some onions and shallots, otherwise nothing of quantity like that. But then I'm still putting tomato plants in.
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