Happy Monday everyone!
The past week has brought us all kinds of weather…clear and cold, cloudy and rainy, clear and warm…short sleeve days followed by two layers of long sleeves and then short sleeves again. Welcome to fall in Santa Fe! The garden and chickens don’t like it very much, but I’m used to it 🙂
The beans are almost completely dead, the tomatoes and chickens are slowing their production and the beets are happy. Ah well, you can’t please everyone all the time!
In the way of news: This week brought us our very first Barnes Mountain Yellow tomato and the very last Hubbard Squash. The tomato will definitely make it into our garden next year! Big fruit, delicious taste, good stuff. The squash? Not so much. I planted three hubbards…each produced one squash bringing our potential total to measly three…but then one rotted on the vine, one rotted on our pantry shelf within a week of falling off it’s dried up vine and the third…well, we’ll see how long it lasts now that it’s in the house, too. Regardless of how long it lasts or how delicious it might be, it’s just not worth the space those babies take up to have such a small yield. I’m not too heartbroken over it, though, since next years winter squash space will be devoted strictly to pie pumpkins and butternuts 🙂
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| Fresh veggies become the most delicious stew! |
- Apples = 1 lb 4 oz
- Basil = 2 oz
- Beets = 1 lb 4 oz
- Cucumbers
- Lemon = 1 lb 8 oz
- Hubbard Squash = 2 lb
- Mixed Greens = 6 oz
- Pears = 5 oz
- Peppers
- Jalapeno = 1 oz
- Shishito = 2 oz
- Pole Beans = 1 oz
- Swiss Chard = 15 oz
- Tomatoes = 8 lb 13 oz
- Zucchini = 1 lb
- Eggs = 58
Very impressive. I’ve not tried growing squash, because we have such a laughably tiny amount of space.
Very impressive. I’ve not tried growing squash, because we have such a laughably tiny amount of space.
Very impressive. I’ve not tried growing squash, because we have such a laughably tiny amount of space.
Thanks! I’ve debated growing any, but love it so much that, for now, it’s staying! 🙂
It is nice to get a break from the bounty of the garden. I know that my non gardening friends have no clue how much time it takes to plant and tend and harvest and process – it’s almost a full time job! But so worth it, even the failures. You certainly pulled in a nice variety of produce this year.
It IS almost like a full time job! We’ve discussed that our little farm venture couldn’t get any bigger while we’re both still working full time! Crazy how fast a garden can go from a couple of pots of tomatoes to a couple hundred pounds of produce in just a couple of years! It is totally worth it, though 🙂
All those cherry tomatoes look absolutely delicious. I hope you enjoy your potato harvest – for me they’re always the most fun.
Thanks! I hope our potatoes did well this year! It’s always a mystery!
Beautiful tomatoes!! Your stew looks delicious – thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Susan!
That is one beautiful looking slice of tomato. The stew looks very tasty as well. You have me thinking of cool winter days wrapped up on the couch with a bowk of stew.
Oh yes…our cool days have definitely got me thinking about all the stews that will come 🙂 I can’t wait!
I like the things you are trying to remember. It would do me good to concentrate more on gratitude for what I have. 🙂
Thank you! I have to remind myself, so as to not get stuck in the challenge of it all 😉
Your harvest is very colorful and I can only wish to have your pears and apples.
We are very grateful our spring was so warm, enabling our fruit trees to have a successful season 🙂 They’re still very young, so anything off the limbs will be a treat!
Looks like your garden is still doing well with more to come! The tomatoes look yummy!
Thanks! It’s been a great run 🙂
I hear you on the respite from the garden! I’m glad that it’s slowing down. July and August, while so satisfying, are also a lot of hard work!
I’m also contemplating whether to continue to try to grow winter squash and melons. They are so hit and miss for us and take up a lot of room. They did the best in two of our prime boxes 2 or 3 years ago but they covered the world that year and were a pain to have to work around. I’ll see how I feel about it all as I’m doing garden planning this winter…
Ahhh…it’s such a balance! I look at it all as a continuous experiment! It’s a good thing it’s enjoyable 😉
Bee Girl looks like a pretty good harvest to me. Surprised that the hubbard was so small. When we had large gardens we always grew them in the corn field and they used to get huge. I could hardly lift them and one would give us some many cans of squash for the winter.
Ha! I attempted to grow them this year specifically because of 1) taste and 2) size! Who knew I’d get a couple of weaklings 😉
I totally agree with you about the hubbard squash. Planted 4 plants, they took over a good part of my garden and I have only one squash, not sure if it will mature before frost. Definitely not a repeat for next year.
Love the color of your mountain yellow tomato.
Wow…it sounds like Hubbards are officially hard to grow! Welp…I am really, really not growing them again next year!
It sounds like your garden year has been a huge success. I won’t be bringing in the pumpkins and squash until October, but we dont’ get frosts typically until then.
That fresh veggie stew looks delicious!
I’ve been trying to hold off on the winter squash but a few of the vines have withered. We still have a few pumpkins on the vine…I’m hopeful they’ll hold out a bit longer 🙂
I will have to look for that Barnes Mountain tomato since my maiden name was Barnes, lol! Your harvest looks very good. I had the same experience with Hubbard squash; one rotted on the vine and the other detached from the vine before it was mature. I think its time to give up on them after no success for four years.
Oh yes! Now you HAVE to grow the Barnes Mountain Yellow!
Ugh…four years of trying with the Hubbards?! No good!