These are a couple of my veggie beds.
Claxton garden peas.
In the past, I've grown a lot of snow peas, which can be added as a whole pod raw to a salad, when small, or can be cooked. The beauty is that snow peas allow you to eat the entire pod, since they are much less fibrous than garden peas. The downside is that last summer, I finally grew weary of thinking of new ways to consume the prolific quantities of snow peas that my tiny patch was producing. So this season, I planted only Claxton garden peas. To my surprise, even the tiniest, immature pods are tough as nails, so I'll have to wait for the pods to mature, and then shell out the peas.
Bird netting over veggie bed, to keep out rabbits.
In this second photo, you can see that I've draped plastic bird netting over most of this bed. The rabbits are still able to graze on the pepperonccini plants at either end, but they were beginning to grow through the netting, and had to be excluded. The major motivation for the netting was to preserve the row of radicchio, near the foreground. My bunny friends were mowing it down as soon as it stood.
Now, understand that radicchio sells for $3 to $4 per tiny head at the market, when you can find it. And it is slow to germinate, so was started indoors in March. A serious pain in the ass to grow. (If you've never used radicchio, it's sometimes seen in veggie stands as baseball-sized, red and white cabbage-like things with a high price. It's used as a condiment in a salad blend, to add a slightly edgy, radish like taste.) With the netting over it, all the heads (my variety grows more like a romaine) have recovered.
Also in that bed are climbing cucumbers, Pingtung long eggplant and boxwood basil.
My 15 tomato plants look like tomatoes, so no pic. Ditto for 6 varieties of squash (some summer, some winter) that have needed Serenade spraying to fight off mildew from the damp weather, and are growing well.
Cukes haven't started producing yet. My extra-short season watermelon and cantaloupe have been slow to get going. They never seem to work out here in southwest Virginia.
Bob
