Tomatoes and more rain

Again with the rain. I haven’t needed to even hook up the irrigation system or the rain barrel. This is silly.

Lots of tomatoes ripened in the couple sunny days this week, almost a pound yesterday. Which makes about a pound and a half thus far. The beans have slowed dramatically, and irritating neighbor cut the stray ones back. Grr. I even left him a nice note inviting him to eat the ones that strayed to his side of the fence. What I thought was a volunteer tomato in the kale/bean/borage box is actually a sungold, which must’ve sprouted from a wayward seed from the cold frame when I transplanted the kale. So sad that all the rest of the sungolds washed away, because they’re so delicious.

The kale is taunting me, it is so beautiful, but no soil lab has said they can test for the contaminants at issue, so the kale is just for pretty right now. The herbs don’t scare me as much, which is irrational. Kale is meatier and therefore more likely to be poison?

The basil box is fluffy and prolific, but growth has slowed again with the renewed rainfall.

The borage dropped a lot of seeds when it fell over, and I crawled around on the ground yesterday picking them up. I think I collected almost a full seed packet’s worth. They are pretty and black and ridged. I think by now enough of them have been washed around the yard that next year will have more than three volunteer borage plants. I collected about half a packet’s worth of snap pea seeds, though I’m pretty sure they were a hybrid and won’t come true from seed. It can’t hurt to grow them, now that I know the St. Patty’s planting day secret.

I think this week, I’ll try for a second planting of beans and marigolds.

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