Quick drop-by

The title is both with regards to the blog and the garden, yesterday. Between work, an afternoon spend taking care of the kids and the cooking/bathing/bedding thing, I had approximately 45 minutes to run up and down to the garden. With a 15 minute walk each way that's generally hardly worth the effort, but we had a bag with kitchen scraps that contained some rotten apricots, which we didn't want to reside on our balcony any longer.

The alternating heat and humidity have not been bad for the garden. A zucchini that had been to small to even consider harvesting last weekend had taken humongous proportions, which also meant a spontaneous change in dinner plans. Even the third, and rather small, salads start to bolt right now. I guess we'll still have some good ones for a couple of meals, but then we have to hope the fourth and fifth batches can take over (the fifth batch went in this weekend, so it will take a while before we can eat...).

We evidently didn't take good care when harvesting the peas, which we took care of about 10 days ago. In the bed, that now has several different members of the brasica family in it, about 25 small pea plants can be seen. I am hesitating whether I should keep them, and transplant (but where??!) and hope for a second harvest, or whether it's better not to bother and clean them out.

Last, but not least, just before having to take off back home I had a quick look at the tomatoes, and there's more and more little ones appearing. All, both small and big are still very green though. I guess we can only hope for more warm and sunny days.