• Harvest

    Falling Into (what is almost) Fall

    A cold front is moving through and our temps are about 20 degrees below where they’ve been for what feels like forever.  It’s raining lightly right now and I’m happily drinking a cup of hot tea in the middle of the afternoon.  Tomorrow is the unofficial last day of summer, and while I am incredibly sad about the dying down…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone!!! This week was a jumble of harvesting and non-harvesting due to guests being in town and then a cold that caught me. Some highlights are: the first blue corn that was…er…not blue, lots of tomatoes, the very first lemon cucumber ever, lots of beans (these are all being blanched and frozen for winter use…anyone have a favorite…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone!!! The Yellow Taxis have continued to bless us with their presence in the garden…which I am grateful for since not many of our other varieties are near ready for harvest!  We’ve harvested about a pound a day of these babies! We also harvested our second (yes, their growth is slow this year!) squash and a few handfuls…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    The first cosmo! “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!  So…I guess I’ll just hang out down here with the squash…” Bush beans Broccoli! The bush beans are out of control! The butternut squash is getting huge and starting to change colors! More sunflowers!  These guys are about 10 feet tall! Honey Boat Delicata squash This is supposed to be…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone!!! We’re starting to see a little more color in our harvests, though not as much as I’d like!  Turns out that one of the mystery tomatoes that was transplanted and not labelled is another Yellow Taxi!!!  Ah well!  A tomato is a tomato and I am grateful for the taste of it regardless of its color! Our…

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    The Evolution of a Single Bean

    I am killing some time in garden, waiting for the temps to fall just a bit before putting in some of our fall/winter crops.  This bed holds broccoli in back (“this is just a test…”), buck wheat in the middle and a trio mix of bush beans in front. The trio beans were given to us by our friend Carol…