Two of the perennials we learned of only a couple of years ago – and planted last year Sea Kale and Turkish Rocket  came up early and are growing so fast.  They each are getting broccoli-like flowers. This is something I have never seen!

Sea Kale

Flowering Sea Kale

Flowering Turkish Rocket

 We had a good amount of red potatoes that grew and we canned last year – we were able to have them once a week throughout the winter.  This year, we wanted more control and put them into a 4×4 bed and will build up around them as they grow. There is also a horseradish planted here from another bed where there wasn’t as much control of it spreading.  The goal is to grow and can enough potatoes to stop purchasing them for the whole year – until the next harvest in 2014.

Potatoes in a 4×4 Bed with Horseradish (top left corner)

Comfrey is another new addition to our garden and it is spreading and flowering. This makes me happy, because anywhere something useful grows, the grass can’t. We are still working on a solution to the grass and are covering it over with mulch, cardboard, straw…whatever we can find that will limit it from coming back. We will have to deal with it in the autumn and really cover it so it doesn’t take hold at all in the spring. How great it would be to have a yard of comfrey to walk on instead!