mid-summer
Flowers and veggies from mid-summer, before the rains stopped and the real heat hit. The garlic has been harvested, and the rest is quite a withered mess now.
Flowers and veggies from mid-summer, before the rains stopped and the real heat hit. The garlic has been harvested, and the rest is quite a withered mess now.
We harvested our garlic today, and have it curing in the sun. We have 28 heads of Erik’s German White (bought from Seed Savers) and 58 of Spanish Roja (bought from Baker […]
We use the “Florida weave” method for trellising our tomato plants. This year we added some thick bamboo poles to our existing stash of untreated 1x1s, which don’t last too […]
The early spring here has meant that the garden is more lush than usual for the end of May. We are already snacking on our first cherry tomatoes, Sunsugars that […]
We have been busy in the garden the past two weekends. It has been so warm – 80s in the days and 50s at night – it feels like the […]
Other than making refrigerator pickles, my only other experience canning was putting up a few jars of tomatoes this past summer. I have checked out a number of books from my local library […]
The sweet potatoes have been dug up. About 16 pounds from 9 slips (not including the ones we found later while turning over the bed). The green bell peppers were […]
Things have slowed, but we are still collecting from the garden. The parsley came back from dormancy and a fresh crop of seedlings have popped up. There is a miniature […]
The garden is starting to look different – autumn is approaching. Temperatures have been fluctuating dramatically. On labor day weekend we went from 100+ on Saturday, and didn’t get into […]
In the garden yesterday, I saw something crawling on my dill plants. Turns out there were no less than ten black swallowtail caterpillars on the dill and parsley, in different […]