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10 Nov 2009
one month later... 1 Happy
the last green tomatoes, left in a box with ripe bananas and apples, are becoming red. It worked!
Overcast 4°C / 39°F
06 Nov 2009
Stupice (aka the stupid one) 3 (first time) 'Stupice' and Veggie Abundance garden
This morning I checked on the Stupice seedlings… They are looking fantastic. I did a late torch lit raid on Bed #3 last night and removed a dozen or so slugs and 4 snails who were found to be trespassing there. They are waiting on death row to be served up to the hens before the day is out.
27°C / 81°F
17 Oct 2009
Last batch of sauce 1 Happy Vegetable & Fruit garden and Solanum lycopersicum - Tomato - Italian Plum Preserved
I almost forgot to make this journal. We used the last of the tomatoes to make three more freezer containers of tomato sauce. These are about a pint each, just the right size for a pasta meal for the two of us. So total preserved as tomato sauce 31 Aug – 7 pints 17 Oct – 3 pints
Sunny 18°C / 65°F
04 Oct 2009
Sunday harvest while cleaning up 2 Happy Vegetable & Fruit garden , Thymus vulgaris - English Thyme Harvesting, Thymus vulgaris - Silver Edge Thyme ...
Today was supposed to be nice so I really wanted to get some work done – weeding, clearing and general maintenance – but it just wasn’t to be. I woke up feeling really kinda punky, and the rainy downpours we had yesterday just soggied everything. By afternoon, I ventured out and...
Sunny 18°C / 64°F
03 Oct 2009
Final Harvest 7 2 Very Happy Eggplant Harvesting, New planting of eggplant Harvesting, Poblanos Harvesting, New Planting of Poblanos Har...
At least, that is what I think we have come to. We did not have the BIG FREEZE like the weather man intimated, but it is eminent. I covered the only butternut squash that I have out there in the hopes that it will get to the proper size. Last night I spent the better part of an hour bringing in...
13°C / 55°F
28 Sep 2009
Monday's Mixed Harvest Happy Herb garden , Plantago major - Broad-leaf Plantain Harvesting, Plantago lanceolata - Narrow-Leaf Plantain H...
Cut a large bunch of each, broadleaf and narrowleaf Plantain to make an infusion (done this afternoon). Cut back the Boneset in the BBB to dry a large bunch for later use. Cut a large bunch, about 12 mopheads, of Hydrangea for drying. Each fall I cut a new bunch and replace last year’s drie...
Sunny 24°C / 75°F
28 Sep 2009
Getting the cart before the horse... Happy Okra , More okra , More okra Harvesting, cucumber x 8 Harvesting, The tomatoes! Harvesting, and Big Boy Tom...
To talk about preservation before harvest is just that. :) Here are yesterday harvest totals.
Sunny 3°C / 37°F
27 Sep 2009
September's Harvest Tomato Sun Cherry Harvesting, Tomato Yellow Pear Harvesting, Tomato Orange Banana Harvesting, Tomato Red Ze...

22°C / 72°F
24 Sep 2009
Another little bit of harvest 1 Happy Vegetable & Fruit garden , Capsicum annuum - Sweet Pepper - 'Cal Wonder' Harvesting, Solanum lycopersicum -...
Pepper – 1 rather small, but looked like it needed to be picked; still a few more very very little ones left Tomato, heirloom Roma yellow – 2 Calendula – 3 flowers 2 seed pods of Perennial Sweet Pea
Sunny 26°C / 78°F
22 Sep 2009
A little bit of harvest 3 Happy Solanum lycopersicum - Tomato - Roma yellow heirloom Harvesting, Solanum lycopersicum - Tomato - Heirloom '...
Tomato Italian Plum – 1 this is the last of these Tomato heirloom yellow Roma – 1 Tomato ‘Blondkopfchen’ – 1 gold and 1 red These two are in pots in a more protected area, with more fruit still on the plants, but more ripening is questionable. Calendula – 3 flo...
Sunny 19°C / 66°F
17 Sep 2009
Thursday Harvest 2 Happy Vegetable & Fruit garden , Solanum lycopersicum - Tomato - Italian Plum Harvesting, Cucumis sativus - Cucum...
Tomato Italian Plum – 1 Cucumber – 3 Pumpkin – 2 cut the two from the dead vine. They are on the deck where they would get the most sun in some feeble attempt to get them a little ripeness. Calendula – 1 flower
Partly Sunny 19°C / 67°F
17 Sep 2009
Volunteer tomato finally fruiting!! 2 Happy
I noticed the other day that there was a flower on it, but I also noticed upon closer examination that there was a small tomato on it. I think it is a Big Boy. We’ll see as it gets bigger. The plant is finally getting more sun, since the corn is dying off for the year. I may pull it, bu...
Sunny 21°C / 70°F
16 Sep 2009
Wednesday Tomato Harvest 5 Happy Vegetable & Fruit garden , Solanum lycopersicum - Tomato - Italian Plum Harvesting, Solanum lycopersicum - ...
Tomato Heirloom Roma yellow – 3 Tomato Italian Plum – 1 Tomato ‘Ingegnoli Gigante’ – not harvested today but this was the one that fell off when the pot was blown over in the wind. I have had it in a paper bag, and it is now ripe. When green it weighed 6 oz., now wei...
Sunny 14°C / 58°F
15 Sep 2009
Canning and Food Preservation Update 3 4 Happy
Well, I was pretty busy yesterday. I got 3 pints of salsa made, and cooked up the cabbage for egg rolls. While this was going on, I was making sausage gumbo for dinner. I will probably make some more salsa, tomato sauce, and finish up with the blanched squash today.. maybe I will have time to d...
Sunny 12°C / 54°F
14 Sep 2009
Veggie Tales - Woe and Whooooa 2 2 Happy Vegetable & Fruit garden , Cucurbita pepo var. pepo - Small Sugar Pumpkin - 'New England Pie' Dying, Daucus...
Alas! I have two little orphan pumpkins and I killed their mother. Yesterday I was pulling dead vines and trimming dead leaves etc. on the Squash, Cucumber and Pumpkin vines on the trellis. When I went out this morning, the entire Pumpkin vine was wilted. It looks like in my trimming fervor, I mu...
Sunny 23°C / 74°F