The potatoes have completely overtaken the garden and have stopped much of the other crops from getting any sun.  So I finally broke down and cut down the rogue potato plants.  These are the plants that grew from potatoes we had thrown into our compost.  I did leave untouched the potatoes I planted.  The radishes, carrots, and lettuce just weren’t growing.  So I trimmed the plants and put them into the composter.

Junior and I also put cages around the two tomato plants.  We crushed some of the branches because we left it too long.  Not to worry, my lovely wife and daughter went out later and fixed our mess for us.  No flowers on the tomato plants yet but some buds just starting to show.

As for the radishes, it seems to me that we should have had a bumper crop by now.  They’re so fast growing and we’ve had some almost ready to pick for a couple of weeks.  But every time I check, nothing worth picking.

I mentioned this over the supper table one night.  And surprise, surprise, we HAVE had radishes that were big enough to pick.  It turns out my 12 year old son (if you’ve been reading this blog you’ll know he checks the garden morning and night) has been picking them.  The radishes get big enough to pick, out they come, rub on shirt to get the dirt off, and pop into his mouth.

How about that?  Most folks have a hard time getting 12 year old boys to eat any vegetables.  I’ve got my 12 year old sneaking vegetables :) .