The yums are coming in, as is the busy season.
The past few and the upcoming weeks are a blur of weeding, thinning, resowing, pest- control, harvest and preserves. The garden is growing into her own – in spite of my early season concerns of the unseasonable cold and wet, plants want to live and so they thrive. It’s rained so much this summer I’ve not even used the drip irrigation system I finally set in place. Even so, the daytime weather has really been gorgeous most days the past couple of weeks – excepting a couple of wild storms that were really rough on my ailing ash trees.
Now if only I could push myself to rise early in the day and garden at proper farming time.
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Jules, planting beans in the Annex 3 Sisters Garden |
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4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden Keeping up with the mid-summer weeding, thinning, planting, harvest. |
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Day 102
Lactuca sativa
Harvesting
1.0 x bowl
[0.25 lb]
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Day 794
Filipendula rubra
Blooming
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Day 443
Rheum rhabarbarum
Harvesting
1.0 x basket
[0.5 lb]
for rhubarb crisp |
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Day 773
Rheum rhabarbarum
Harvesting
1.0 x basket
[1.0 lb]
for strawberry-rhubarb jam |
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Day 76
Brassica oleracea (Acephala Group)
Harvesting
[1.5 lb]
blanched and frozen |
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Day 34
radish: easter egg mix (NRA Bed N3) Raphanus sativus
Harvesting
1.0 x item
my radishes sure grow slow |
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Day 1152
strawberry hill (ozark beauty) Fragaria x ananassa
Harvesting
[0.1 lb]
harvest dying down. time to renovate. |
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Day 787
Strawberries: Allstar June bearing Fragaria x ananassa
Harvesting
[0.1 lb]
harvest dying down. time to renovate. |
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Day 787
Strawberries: Jewel June bearers Fragaria x ananassa
Harvesting
[0.1 lb]
harvest dying down. time to renovate. |
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5 Butterfly and Bumblebee garden Mystery tomatoes in the butterfly bed, growing. |
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Day 99
Solanum lycopersicum
Budding
setting fruit. |
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Day 398
Ribes rubrum
Budding
ripening. |
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Day 398
Ribes rubrum
Harvesting
[0.5 lb]
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Day 78
Pisum sativum
Harvesting
1.0 x handful
This variety is short and doing ok. |
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Day 102
Pisum sativum
Dying
pulled plants for compost. |
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Day 102
Pisum sativum
Harvesting
1.0 x bowl
This variety healthiest and most prolific of varieties planted. |
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Day 102
Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon
Dying
pulled plants for compost. they did not grow well this season. |
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Day 266
Allium sativum
Harvesting
[0.5 lb]
harvest scapes |
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Day 266
Allium sativum
Harvesting
[0.5 lb]
harvest scapes |
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Day 266
Garlic: Chopaka Mountain Artichoke Allium sativum
Harvesting
[0.5 lb]
harvest scapes |
Previous Journals
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Midsummer harvest and preserves
Collards: Georgia Preserved, Rhubarb Preserved, tomato: yellow oxheart Setting Fruit, Collards: G...
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Littlest Garden Helper Helps Himself to the Harvest
Broccoli: Munchkin Harvesting, Tree onion 'Egyptian' Flowering, garlic: Idaho Silver Flowering, g...
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raspberry: autumn bliss Ripening, 9 Guerilla Parkway garden , 3 The Orchard garden , Cherry: Mont...
Later Journals
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3 The Orchard garden and 4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden
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4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden
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Lost pepper plants & more miscellany
peas: burpeeana Harvesting, Potato Flowering, and Kale: Dwarf Siberian Harvesting
Comments
anelson wrote:
impressive harvest!
Posted on 27 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
HazelJ wrote:
I hear you on the early rising part. Somehow I always wind up in the garden in the afternoon and I tend to keep working so that supper is late, which makes bedtime late, which makes getting up early to garden when it’s cooler next to impossible!
Posted on 28 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
KathN wrote:
Everything looks so amazing! Such a great variety of goodies you grow. I’m especially impressed with the currants. What do you do with them?
Posted on 28 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
creme wrote:
Right now, I look at them sitting in my refrigerator and wonder what to do with them ;) The eventual plan is to make currant jam, but there aren’t enough to do so this year. My strawberry harvest is over, so I’ll have to pick up some fruit at the market to continue our jam making adventures. I’m not sure why, but the strawberry harvest seems much smaller this year than I expected. Even so, I think we pulled in about 30 pounds over the course of the season. And even so, that – believe it or not – doesn’t make very much jam. I have some ideas on how to increase harvest next year. I need to start a new journal and pick hotwired’s head.
Posted on 28 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
Fhaith wrote:
I suspect Hotwired will want you to test the PH level. The strawberry harvests across NY has been low too. However, I have picked about 25 pounds of berries at a local organic strawberry field. Spent a lot of money on them too. But we had fun. I hope to install strawberries in our Wellness Garden for the near future. That would be a great addition.
The currants are beautiful! Nice shots of the gardens!
Posted on 28 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
Fhaith wrote:
I suspect Hotwired will want you to test the PH level. The strawberry harvests across NY has been low too. However, I have picked about 25 pounds of berries at a local organic strawberry field. Spent a lot of money on them too. But we had fun. I hope to install strawberries in our Wellness Garden for the near future. That would be a great addition.
The currants are beautiful! Nice shots of the gardens!
Posted on 28 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
creme wrote:
I am so bad. I have never done soil tests. Well, I have one of those home kits, but it didn’t seem like it worked to me. I need to buckle down and send soil samples to the university.
I have so many topics and questions to write about and I’m so behind on simply entering data here. Hopefully I’ll catch up a little tonight.
Posted on 28 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
xan wrote:
Creme, how big is your red currant? I’m thinking of adding one to my berry patch, but I have limited space. (And me too—I did a soil test 20 years ago and never since. I figure 20 years of amending the soil with compost and manure gives me reasonably healthy soil. This is the theory, anyway.)
Posted on 04 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
creme wrote:
In the second year, about 3 feet high and 2 feet around. I expect them to get bigger, though I’d have to look up their average range. I placed them where they’d have plenty of room to grow. I was pleasantly surprised by the decent harvest in year two. It ended up being about a 1/2 quart of berries. Not enough to make jam, but enough to throw into some yummy pie and cake recipes.
Posted on 05 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
xan wrote:
Currants make fantastic gravy or meat glaze, and vinaigrette, too.
Posted on 13 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
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