• Grow,  Harvest

    Harvest Monday

    Happy Labor Day everyone! This week brought us a bit of diversity in the form of the first winter squash!!!  I have been biting my nails in anticipation and just couldn’t take it any more!  There are still several ripening on their vines, but here’s the first peek!!! I also harvested the first radishes that I planted super late in…

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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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    Garden Happiness(es)

    Sunflower & blue corn Winter squash, morning glories and a rouge sunflower Blue corn…so close to harvest ready! Lemon cucumbers!!! Jalapeno A single tomatillo flower What’s growing in your garden this week?

  • Grow,  Harvest

    Garden Happiness(es)

    The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea The first rain water harvest!!! Silly puppies AKA Mika &…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    Massive, over-wintered spinach (in one of the now uncovered wagons) The massive spinach is now starting to go to seed…finally! Baby spinach in a pot on the front porch to replace the massive spinach once I pull it all out 🙂 Here we have lettuce and arugula which was planted in the bed right outside the front door.  The lettuce…