While it always feels funny to me to start fall crops in the middle of summer, I am learning the importance of giving them the opportunity to get their roots under them well before the temperature drops. This will be our third fall and winter during which we will attempt…
Happy Monday everyone! Things are, happily, continuing their slow roll out of the garden and into the kitchen! The Yellow Taxi Tomatoes are slowing their production and there are only a handful of them left on the plants. It’s OK though, because there are many other varieties that will follow…
Happy Monday everyone! This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers! Dave, I’m hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you’ve gotten in the past. Very interesting…I guess we’ll…
Happy Monday everyone! Well, the past week has been full of tomatoes! 18 to be exact! 17 of those were Yellow Taxis and 1 was a Cherokee Purple…an itty bitty Cherokee Purple. While it was quite a pain to carry all those tomato starts in and out of the house…
Happy Monday everyone! The harvests are slow and low these days, but they’re still coming in! I’ve only been opening up our Wagons about once a week to check on them and water them, but they’re looking good! I need to figure out how to successfully succession sow my veggies,…
Happy Monday everyone! This week brought us our very first broccoli ever, what is possibly the very last of the tomatoes, a few shallots and a little bit of kale. The winter veggies are starting to look good in the wagons, though it’ll be a while until we’re harvesting big…
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, as part of the 2011 Growing Challenge, we are growing broccoli for the first time ever. Guess what? It worked! Today I got to harvest our very first broccoli from the garden! I’ve learned that, to ensure that you’re broccoli is ready for…
Alright, I’ve finally planted out both of the raised beds in the front yard. Here’s what we’ve planted and are hoping to harvest throughout the winter and into next spring. 4X5 bed. In order of rows sown, back to front, succession plantings sown early August through early October. Broccoli Carrots…