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Winter Harvest
There is something satisfying about harvesting in winter. Like I’ve succeeding in feeding myself year round.
With the abundance of seed catalogs arriving and my desire to get the garden started its nice to still be eating from last years plantings.
I pulled more carrots today, they have a nice sweetness from the winter cold.
These became […]
Posted by Valria on January 8th, 2008 under Harvest & Succession Planting, Year-Round Gardening, Garden Maintenance | Comment now »Time to plant Garlic!
The hardest part about planting garlic is picking a place to put in next years garlic, oh and also finding a day that its not pouring down rain and not too cold that you can stand to be outside planting.
Garlic is a bulb and is planted in the fall. These will start to grow […]
Snack Jacks!
There was an initial fear when planting the snack jack pumpkins that they would take up far to much room and by the sounds of it I would have plenty of little pumpkins to make into soup or pie or ravioli or whatever my little pumpkin heart desired.
I found a spot, I planted several, I […]
Fall Carrots / Plantings
Today I planted some fall vegetables. All except the carrots are the same spring variety’s I planted earlier this year. I did plant two types of spinach earlier in the year but today I just went for the 45 day variety. Hoping to get it in and up and harvested in this […]
Posted by Valria on September 8th, 2007 under Garden Planning, Harvest & Succession Planting, Year-Round Gardening | Comment now »Bounty
This is a yummy, yet challenging point of the gardening season. Challenging because I can only eat so much…:)
There is more produce then one can eat alone. Besides even the freshest of beans or in my case yellow squash, there comes a time when you have just eaten so much you can’t comprehend another […]
The first Snack Jack
While outside in the garden for even more weeding today I noticed the first Snack Jack pumpkin.
These are the same ones I didn’t know how I would fit them in earlier this year. I did and here is a picture of the very first one.
It’s about the size of an egg.
Isn’t it cute
Here I’ll […]
Posted by Valria on August 1st, 2007 under Garden Maintenance | Comment now »Squash & Salad
The weather has been perfect!!! Not for me, but for the garden. Its been quite rainy and humid but bright, not dark and rainy.
A few days away and look at all the butterstick squash I found last night when I went to pull lettuce for a salad.
Needless to say, I’ll be grilling squash tonight!
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Peas and New Potatoes
So the peas are done for the first half of the season. The pea pods now over sized and no longer sweet.
I pulled the plants today, shelling the rest of the peas right in the garden. This just makes it easier to get the shells into the compost.
The peas are still sweet and […]
Growth in Pictures
If you can remember to take pictures at regular intervals its fun to watch the progression of the garden.
I took the first two on June 4th when the garden was in.
The rest I took today, July 4th. I have put a note in my calendar to take pictures on August 4th as well.
As you […]
The Fruits of Labour
Some of the best fruits of my labor is the fruit itself.
Today there were fresh raspberries and blueberries for breakfast.
There is a second round of strawberries ripening and the plums are getting bigger.
There will be no nectarines or peaches this year but I will spray for the peach leaf curl this fall, I will I […]
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