Cabbage get started early (late April/early May) because they like cool weather. I think this variety was a 65-75 day variety, so it's right on schedule. (And they're delicious -- made a simple salad of shredded cabbage, julienned carrot, sweet onion, and shredded chicken breast, topped with coarsely chopped peanuts and a lime-based dressing.) Time to seed for the second crop to be harvested Octoberish.
Sun Gold maters are our first to ripen; the big ones take longer. The eggplant are a bit of a surprise, but it's been pretty warm. (Hmmm, I wonder why.....) They are actually a trap crop for flea beetles to distract the nasty critters from the potatoes, and anything we get is a bonus. Along that line, onions went in this year solely to mask the lettuce, spinach, carrots, beans, etc. from the resident critters. Apparently, since we now don't care how they do, the onions are doing freakin' great.
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