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13 Nov 2009
nov 13 harvest and notes 2 1 Chervil: Vertissimo Harvesting, turnip: golden ball Harvesting, daikon (squash) Harvesting, Beets, Cylindra...
Today I harvested all the root crops, plus some chervil. You don’t get a picture of the greens because although it shows up on picassa it won’t show up as an option for a journal photo. Instead, individual photos of each root. In addition to the quantities noted below, three small ...
Cloudy 8°C / 47°F
08 Nov 2009
Still harvesting well 1 Broccoli 'Gambler's' , Broccoli 'De Cicco' , and Veggie Abundance garden
I’m picking enough heads each day to throw some into dinner and still have a sandwich sized zip-lock bag full to blanch and freeze. I’m wondering how long this bed can keep cropping. I’m keeping half an eye on the calendar and tweaking my crop rotations, but I don’t want ...
19°C / 66°F
08 Nov 2009
Cropping well finally 1 Silverbeet 'Crimson' and Veggie Abundance garden
I sowed the crimson silverbeet seeds directly in the bed I was going to use for greens and roots. The seeds were past their ‘best before’ date so I wasn’t sure what kind of germination rate I’d get, in fact I was happy any sprouted at all. This planting has been slow to r...
18°C / 64°F
06 Nov 2009
Yummy Spinach 4 Happy
I went out to the garden last night to see how the spinach is doing. It is very slow growing this time of year, but very full flavored. I am not certain when to harvest it. It is not quite big enough for a good harvest, but a little one before the cold actually kills it is better than no harve...
Sunny 3°C / 37°F
04 Nov 2009
nov 2 harvest 1 11 Kale Harvesting, Radish: Munich Bier Harvesting, Broccoli Harvesting, Chervil: Vertissimo Harvesting, fenne...
Because it was there. We made a big huge pot of schi, which I don’t know how to spell, and which was extremely yummy.
6°C / 43°F
31 Oct 2009
oct 31 harvest pepper: mystery Harvesting, Chile de Arbol Harvesting, Thai Chili Harvesting, and Broccoli Harvesting
More peppers from the basement for my hot sauce attempt. It came out better this time. And some broccoli, just ‘cause. Unfortunately, lots of the mystery peppers have been wormy and I’ve had to toss them.
6°C / 43°F
02 Nov 2009
Grapes harvested Happy Grape vine Harvesting and Allotment garden
So, having finally got my winemaking equipment together, I went to harvest the grapes, managing to fill a 25 litre bucket. It seems that I picked the right time to harvest; more of the grapes had started to drop and I think in a week or two I would have lost them. The total yield filled a 5-gallo...
Sunny 8°C / 46°F
02 Nov 2009
From garden to plate (with added protein). 2 5 Broccoli 'Gambler's' and Veggie Abundance garden
Our broccoli is starting to crop as fast as I can harvest it. I have to be out there picking before dinner every night really or it gets away from me. I’ve blanched and frozen three sandwich-sized bags of florets in the last few days. It feels good to be storing food away again. We had fr...
Cloudy 13°C / 55°F
02 Nov 2009
Where are my sunflower heads? 2 Neutral Velvet Queen Sunflowers Harvesting, Mammoth Sunflowers Harvesting, Lemon Queen Sunflowers Harvesting, Lemon...
Sunday when I went to the garden to check on my cold crops I took a pair of scissors to remove the seed heads from the garden for seed collecting for next year, and for roasting. To my chagrin and surprise, they were gone. Broken off halfway down the plants. The kids were all over our back 40, ...
Overcast 6°C / 43°F
25 Oct 2009
salad days and fall cleanup 2 4 Broccoli Harvesting, parsley Harvesting, Radish: Munich Bier Harvesting, Artichoke: cal green globe Budding...
Yesterday I harvested a bowl of salad greens and about half a cup of broccoli—enough for dinner for two. The arugula is amazing. The lettuce outside has all bolted; I’m leaving it to see if I have lots of fun little volunteers in the spring. The mustards and the chicories are flirti...
Sunny 10°C / 50°F
25 Oct 2009
Unexpected sun 6 2 Herb- Parsley, curley Harvesting, Herb- Parsley, Italian Harvesting, Beets Harvesting, Beets Harvesting, Ca...
Despite gloomy forecasts, it was sunny and 60 today, so I was able to get out into the garden and some of that end-of-year work that’s been nagging. Emptied out the rain gauge, which had 3" in it— that’s about the last 8 or 10 days of rain. Yikes. Glad we’re not clo...
Overcast 17°C / 62°F
24 Oct 2009
First harvest of Calabrese 'Ironman' Happy Calabrese 'Ironman' Harvesting and Allotment garden
As I pulled back the mesh off the brassicas this afternoon, I was delighted to find two large, perfectly formed heads of broccoli gleaming back at me. These have now been harvested and won’t last long. By good fortune it looks like I won’t get the broccoli all at once; there are a cou...
16°C / 61°F
14 Oct 2009
Final "Summer" harvest Happy Grape Tomatoes Harvesting and Grape Tomatoes Dying
With the threat of really cold temps this week, last night Emily & I picked all of the remaining grape tomatoes, and I pulled up the plant. The orange and blushing ones are sitting out to finish ripening, while the green ones got halved and tossed in the pickle jar. That is a novelty to Emily...
Cloudy 7°C / 44°F
13 Oct 2009
oct 13 harvest 2 2 pepper: mystery Harvesting, Chile de Arbol Harvesting, Thai Chili Harvesting, and Serrano Chilis Harvesting
Today I harvested the first of the basement ripened chilis. I picked them almost-but-not-quite ripe to make the plants direct more energy to the green fruit. There were also a couple of green ones that got knocked off the other day when I was hanging the plants. I’m going to let them get ...
Sunny 3°C / 38°F
12 Oct 2009
First frost + harvest, part 7 of 7 (tomatoes, longbeans, eggplants, peppers, basil) 1 Tomato: Red Currant Harvesting, bean, long: Black Seeded Long Bean Harvesting, Bean, long: Yard Long Red No...
My dad helped me harvest all the tomatoes and eggplants and rip out the plants. This was after he helped me harvest what myfolia tells me is 140 lbs of squash. I separated the tomatoes that looked like they would ripen from the ones that looked like they would never ripen. That means 4 quarts ...
Cloudy 8°C / 46°F