Virginia Gardeners

[shelleybean]

Well, the hot weather we've had lately has been kind to part of my garden and other things don't like it so much. All the tomatoes look very healthy and have lots of flowers. There are a few little green tomatoes out there. Peppers are starting to bloom. The eggplant with the broken main stem is growing quickly now but in a funny shape. I guess it's going to be okay, just very wide at the bottom. This is the nicest cabbage I've ever had. Beautiful! I almost always grow cabbage in the fall but I think I'm going to do it in the spring every year. Snap beans look good. White Acre peas sprouted very quickly. My lettuce started to bolt so I bought huge ziplock bags and put all of it in there and filled my garage fridge with it. I have enough to last a couple of weeks with at least one salad every day. Cucumbers are climbing quickly now. They've really picked up their growth since it warmed up outside. Squash is finally showing a few female buds. Tons of male flowers. Okra obviously likes the warm up. Onions are growing, chugging along. My sweet potato slips arrived from Southern Exposure a week ago. I planted them right away and they're doing well, sprouting a few new leaves. All the herbs look very happy and are big enough to start cutting from now. My zinnias have begun to bloom and I have a vase of them on my counter. So I'm just waiting to start picking tomatoes. I can usually pick by the third week of June. We'll see what happens this year!