The flower shown above is a beet flower. It's last years beets flowering this year for next year's crop! I have a basket of spinach shown too, which needs to be harvested completely and frozen due to the unseasonably warm weather lately. Spinach doesn't like heat.
The radishes and marigolds are protecting the cuccumbers from the beetles so far. I've seen no beetles anywhere near the thirteen cuccumber plants. Julie likes the radishes as an extra bonus. I just plantes more radish spouts which I had sprouted separately. The peas are about 4 ft. high and they are flowering. The beans (20 plants) are about 5 inches high. I am trying parsley this year too (very slow to germinate). The summer squash (9 plants) are about 3 inches high. Finally, the tomatoes are about 4-5 inches high. I had something pinching off a few near the ground (not a woodchuck, probably birds), so I had to replace about four plants with left-over sprouted plants.
That's all for now!
