The brief coalescence of spring and summer veggies

The climate we have in this area means that there are pretty clear times where spring and summer veggies can be grown due to the heat, so the time they overlap is special.

To get the summer veggies early enough we have to plant them sooner than is typical but that three to four week period where they can be eaten with the spring veggies is a very lucky period of time.

We are in that time right now with the peak of some spring veggies like the carrots, lettuce, cabbage and kale while we have begun harvesting basil and potatoes with many more on the horizon.

There are even some spring veggies that we are just starting to harvest like the cauliflower and broccoli. Harvesting has also finished for some like radishes and turnips while this weekend will be the last with spinach.

The warmer weather is leading to a lot a growth for all the veggies and for spring veggies they will need to be harvested in the next couple of weeks before they bolt.

While the temperatures is speeding up the harvest of the spring veggies, the summer veggies are thriving in this temperature as they are more adjusted to it.

As long as they are watered they are growing every day and will be ready to harvest soon if we haven’t already started harvesting the.

The tomatoes are flowering which is perfect to do in this temperatures as they flowers are sensitive and will likely not produce a fruit if it is around 100 degrees or more. Getting the plants filled with tomatoes even if they are tiny and green is a much better sight than plants with nothing on them that we had last August.

The sungolds are starting to ripen up and we will see if we can have a few baskets for the weekend. We found the first Early Girls that have ripened which is a little bit of a surprise being earlier than expected.

One of the slower growing crops we have is parsley and we are finally starting to harvest what we planted this spring after a long gap from what we overwintered.

Flowers are appearing on many of the cucurbits meaning we are not far away from the first cucumbers and the summer squash even have some tiny squashes on them. For the melons it takes much longer from a flower until we can harvest them as they are much bigger.

Last week we planted our second succession of peppers and our fourth planting of tomatoes leaving not much more in the greenhouse other than basil and eggplant which are on the planting docket for today or tomorrow.

We still have a good amount of direct seeding to do with a bed of melons almost every week and in a couple of weeks a big planting of winter squash so we have been busy preparing for that while still getting all the necessary harvest done.