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Sowing Fall Seeds

Sowing Fall Seeds

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 to continue to grow some veggies while the temperatures drop…
July 25, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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 them shortly.  I'm thinking the Romas will own the next wave.We…
July 2, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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 wait and see what happens with the other three experimental Happy…
June 25, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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 for a couple of weeks in April and May, getting a…
June 18, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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, since these almost-dry spells are torturous, but I'll get it down!…
November 14, 2011
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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 quantities :-)This weeks totals:Broccoli = 1 poundTomatoes = 3 ouncesKale =…
November 7, 2011
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