Inside/Outside

The cold, wet spring led me to keep much of the garden inside. I still have the peppers, beans and peas indoors. The lettuce was put outside because it likes the cold weather.

I've had a few salads out of my Red Sails lettuce and it's delicious:

Harvested Red Sails

I've also had a bean crop, but not enough for a couple of servings of beans. So, I harvested what I had and blanched them for salad:

My first Blue Lake Bush Beans Harvest

I've also harvested some Lemon Thyme used to season some Alaskan Halibut for dinner last Wednesday.

It's important to harvest when the crop is ready even if it's not necessarily when you're ready. The Red Sails will wilt and flop over into the soil when not harvested timely. The bean bushes will produce more because I harvested and I have lots of beans coming out:

New beanery coming up since harvest

Due to the weather, the tomato plant has remained inside and it's huge:

and flowering:

I wanted to bring the tomato plant out today, but there's a problem unique to condo balconies. I have little control of what the condo association does out there and on Tuesday they are spraying for bees and wasps. Everyone will have to come back inside until that's done and dried out. I don't like eating bee and wasp poison.