Harvest Monday

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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Well, things aren't incredibly exciting here in the way of harvests now.  We do, however, still have a few tomato vines that are holding onto some beautiful fruits (a Barnes Mountain Yellow, two Orange Flesh Purple Smudges and an Italian Heirloom), though they are ripening rather slowly with the cooler weather and shorter days!  They will have to,…
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Tool Lady taming the jungle. I escaped Homework Land just long enough to snap a couple of pictures :-)How do you know that your wife loves you?  When she chooses to spend the majority of her Saturday cleaning up the garden and bringing in what's left to harvest while you work on homework for 14 hours straight!  True story,…
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!Well, as I mentioned yesterday, the cold is toying with us!  We were forecasted to hit freezing temps last weekend, but alas, nothing happened.  I'm guessing this will be our last large harvest before bringing in all the green tomatoes in the next week or so and the potatoes that we're hoping have matured under cover, but I…
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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,…
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!I didn't take many pictures this week (I was too busy taking pictures of our guests and the shenanigans that occurred with said guests ;-) ).  Luckily, the lack of pictures is not representative of what's actually coming in from the garden!While the tomato tally is lower this week than the past several, we are again harvesting Cherokee Purples and…
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!August is rushing by in a bit of a blur.  Have you ever heard the saying that goes something like, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans"?  Yeah...that's the kind of the month I've had so far and there seems to be no end in sight! The good news is, there's lots of happy things…