The last two weeks have brought us both sunshine and flooding (or flooding concerns, depending on where you are in relation to burn scars from all of our fires this summer). There has been hail, very intense lightening storms, tornado like conditions and crazy wind whipping around central and northern New Mexico.
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Luckily, for us, our little pocket of the planet has not experienced any of the extreme extremes save for a few pretty intense rain storms and a great lightning storm the other night (though I was just too tired to grab my camera). This has made for a happy garden and a good showing at the tour last weekend, which you can read about here, here & here (thank goodness)!
Grow
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| Black from Tula Tomato |
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| Baby Butternut Squash |
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| Summer Squash |
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| Our extra large volunteer sunflower. We’ve realized it is a sunflower with multiple heads! Stay tuned… |
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| Bees love echinacea |
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| Our first two eggplants! |
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| Zucchini |
Harvest
Harvest totals for the past two weeks:
- Beans
- Tri-color Bush – 9 oz
- Trail of Tears Pole – 1 lb 9 oz
- Broccoli – 1 oz
- Kale – 3 oz
- Peppers
- Shishito – 15 oz
- Rhubarb – 3 lbs 2 oz
- Squash
- Patty Pan – 1 lb 13 oz
- Summer Crook Neck – 6 oz
- Zucchini – 1 lb 9 oz
- Tomato
- Indigo Rose – 2 oz
- Misc. cherry tomatoes – 4 oz
- Roma – 1 oz
- Yellow Taxi – 3 lb 11 oz
- Eggs – 116
- Chicken – 13 lbs 2 oz
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| This Indigo Rose tomato was beautiful, but not quite ripe yet…we’re learning 😉 |
Eat
Alright, here’s the thing, the last two weeks were absolutely insane for us which translated into a mixture of eating out and eating whatever we could get our hands on. In addition to the chaos, Tool Lady has suddenly, in her very pregnant state, decided that she does not want to eat meat, which is very, very different and is throwing a wrench in a lot of our meal ideas. It’s OK though, we’ll adapt.
With Summer Camp (read: super long days) over, the next couple of weeks get funny schedule-wise. We will take a few random days off here and there and will work pretty normal eight hour days the days we do work, with the exception of next weekend which is a very large fundraiser for the non-profit we both work at…this means we will actually work all weekend long. Given the funniness of our schedules, I won’t even pretend we will be eating normal meals or sticking to any kind of a meal plan. Instead, we will do our best to eat the food we still have in the fridge from our last shopping trip two weeks ago (added to the random items we purchased last Saturday) as well as much of the harvest veggies that are now coming in the door regularly enough to add them to the “menu”.
So, our Meal Plan meals will go something like this, “Protein, carb, veggie” instead of specifics. Sometimes that’s just what you have to do 😉 I will, however, try to get back in a regular rhythm of planning, shopping and cooking shortly.
Wonderful harvest and that huge sunflower is awesome!
You are getting a gorgeous variety of vegetables! That is just an amazing amount of rhubarb and eggs! Your Trail of Tears pole beans are doing much better than mine, some critter is eating up the leaves and they are hardly producing.
Oh no! I hope you are able to figure out what’s eating your beans and stop them! Good luck!
Looks like you are getting a great harvest from your garden this summer! Our tomatoes have not ripened yet, so I’m patiently waiting 🙂 We are getting beans, potatoes, and cucumbers though and other things are starting to come in!
Oh, cucumbers!? It seems as though everyone who is not in NM is having a good cuke year! Must be the funny, cool spring that jumped into incredible heat and then slid back to “normal” temps this year. Not sure, but my cuke vines are itty bitty.
Love that sunflower, can’t wait to see it in bloom! And seeing your Echinaceae makes me want to plant some, it’s so pretty and the bees love it too. You are getting some great harvests now, it all looks so good.
I am very excited for that sunflower to open up as well 🙂 I have been very happy with our echinacea! I highly recommend growing it to anyone who can!
Your garden actually looks very healthy! Nice looking peppers! I’m glad your harvests are starting to pick up for you!
Thank you! It’s a pretty good garden year 🙂
Got to love those volunteer sunflowers!
Got to love those volunteer sunflowers!
Got to love those volunteer sunflowers!
Agreed!
It has been a wild summer everywhere. Glad you missed the worst of it. You are starting to get a nice haul. I particularly like the pile of Sishito peppers. Are they hot that size?
Hi Dave! We love our Shishitos! They are not particularly hot…just a hint of warmth…but they are delicious!