What happened in May...

Well, May has come and gone... the Baby Bee gardeners have been too busy to post! The garden looks lovely in this shot, we're about 15 weeks in here at the beginning of June.

Looks nice, huh? A few weeks ago, the combination of our lawn mower breaking down, a heat wave of 95 degree weather, and too many demands from our grown up jobs left the garden looking like this!

How embarrassing! The squash and kale were wilting and looking quite poorly. The cilantro is spent, the peas have over-grown the trellis, the weeds are creeping up... not pretty! Oh, well... so it didn't look as nice as we wanted for a few weeks... it still produced some food and that's what really matters! We harvested the rest of our broccoli which made a decent amount of florets. Broccoli leaves are edible, too, and there were plenty of those to eat. We got several small baskets of snow peas, lettuce, radishes and herbs.The kale has given us a half-pound bundle from one pot so far, not a lot, but just enough for one dinner for two. Our tomato plants have just grown their first green tomatoes. The swiss chard looks just about ready to eat. The zucchini squash plant is a huge, thirsty girl, with big, beautiful yellow blossoms and a few small zucchini growing under the shade of the leaves. Our flowers are doing well, too. We have several large marigold plants blooming, pansies bursting out of their pot and brilliant red nasturtiums.

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The only veggies that don't seem to be doing well are the peppers and eggplants... They're still alive, but they just don't seem to be growing. We'll keep a better watch on their food and water for now and see how they do. All in all, the success we've had this May is more than we had all last season! We hope that in our next post we will have good news to report about our peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, sunflowers, cantaloupes and butternut squash...