Snow peas, baby radishes, and what's up with the Egyptian Walking Onions?

The boy and I made it out to the plot yesterday afternoon to do some picking.  There were A LOT of snow peas to be had!  The picture below doesn't include the dozen or so he had straight off the vine.

It was also interesting to see the radishes have come up as well as to watch the development of the Egyptian Walking Onions.  The Walking Onions sure are an interesting crop!

A foggy morning at Elkhorn

As I'd hoped, I was able to get out to the plot to finish the work from yesterday.

I couldn't help but marvel at how quiet and serene the site was this morning.  The two new resident geese happily pecked at bugs and whatnot along the edge of parking lot in the mist.

I completed population of the tomatoes, basil, and peppers.  I also did some more weeding along borders, planted a few petunias in this year's legume boxes (snow peas will be followed by green beans), and planted a fair number of radishes along with the tomato/basil/peppers.

Next time I go out, I'll be tackling getting the watermelon trellis up (bottom box in the picture below), planting flowers (top two boxes in the picture below), and filling the last three boxes.

First snow peas, planting, and a "volunteer" tomato

Yesterday, the weather was reasonably nice if overcast.  The Boy and I made it to the plot for a few hours.  We were excited to see that there are a few snow peas since our last visit (he enjoyed two of them).  There are also more fledgling bulbs on the Walking Onions.  Much progress was made for the summer growing season.

First, I weeded inside and around boxes.  While doing that, I stumbled across what appears to be a "volunteer" tomato plant in what will become a box dedicated to bee-attracting flowers.  I'm undecided whether I'll be leaving the tomato there to encourage it or whether I should transplant it.  I'm sorely tempted to leave it just to see how it does there surrounded by flowering magnificence (fingers crossed!).

We filled the box for the Scarlet Runner Beans and planted two petunias inside to help deter the inevitable onslaught of Mexican Bean Beetles.  Two boxes were populated with pepper starters of both varieties and three boxes received tomato starters.  There are still two pepper/tomato boxes in need of population.  Basil starters were also put in strategic locations for their companion benefits.  Depending on what the weather's like around 8:00, I may head out to try to fill those two boxes.

Once all that was done, all that as well as the snow peas were fertilized and watered.  The compost bin was also turned over and watered.

I didn't get pictures of the new plantings, but here are a few I did take before the newbies got in the ground.

The "volunteer" tomato

Plot progress - snow peas and onions

We made it to the plot yesterday.  Didn't have time to be able to actually do any work, but it's nice to see what's going on after all the rain we've had in the last two weeks.

Most notably, the snow peas are forming flowers and the Egyptian Walking Onions are beginning to form the bulbs.

This has nothing to do with the plot, but I began hardening off the plant starters yesterday.

A May day at the plot - Arbor, trellising snow peas, walking onions, "surprise" onions

For the first time in a long time (approx 3 weeks), I had free time, wasn't sick, and wasn't out of town.  As a result, I hustled to the plot to get a few hours' work accomplished.

First, I set up trellising for the snow peas to climb.  They had grown 6" since I was last out there.  All in all, they looked pretty good considering they've been very neglected.

I weeded the entire plot.  Thankfully, not much was needed, but there were more thistles than I wanted.

I also set up a gridwork of trellising on the arbor for the scarlet runner beans to climb once I get those planted.  I also watered everything.  The Egyptian Walking Onions (bottom right picture) are now all over 12" tall with the "Surprise Onions" (bottom left picture) all being at least 20" tall.