pumpkins

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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!This week brought us a few more potatoes and the surprise of a pie pumpkin and a Roma tomato that were hiding beneath the potato leaves!  Amazingly, both the pumpkin and the tomato are completely fine, despite the multiple freezes we've had over the past couple of weeks!  I guess they were "mulched" perfectly by the leaves :-)I…
November 19, 2012
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…
October 8, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes!Happy Hot PeppersOur Mystery Melon!  Tomato Bounty:(top row) Italian Heirloom, Sweet Small Cherry, Bi-Color Cherry, Orange Flesh Purple Smudge, Cherokee Purple(bottom row) Yellow Taxi, Black From Tula, RomaUnfortunately, due to busy-ness, those are the only three photographs that were taken of this weeks…
October 1, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!I've been kind of MIA form this space over the last couple of weeks, save for a few random posting here and there.  No real excuses, just life.  Luckily, though, the garden and it's production doesn't care if I miss a few posts in Blog Land...I hope you don't mind either ;-)The garden is still in high productivity…
August 27, 2012
Mystery Squash

Mystery Squash

I think my heart has broken.  OK, that might be a bit dramatic, but it's almost true. Here's the deal...I thought I planted several Butternut Squash seeds this spring, but now I am positive that I didn't.  The plantings would have given us a delicious and bountiful harvest this fall and the heartbreak comes because they are my absolute favorite…
August 1, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!  Better late than never, right?! Last week was pretty slow in the Garden Department with the exception of Wednesday evening when we decided to pull everything in the 4X6 raised bed (AKA the crazy tomato bed) to avoid losing it all to a freeze while we were out of town over the weekend.  Pulling everything meant the end…
October 11, 2011