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Harvest Monday!!!

Harvest Monday!!!

This was an exciting week!  We harvested our first, second, third, fourth and fifth tomatoes!  That's right, a total of 5 tomatoes in one week!  Looks like all the patience has paid off and I couldn't be happier!  These are Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and are super yummy.  The skins are a little thick, but that's to be expected here.  We've…
July 25, 2011
Planning the Fall & Winter Garden

Planning the Fall & Winter Garden

If you were to be a fly on the wall in my home in the early hours of any given weekend morning, you would probably find my kitchen table looking something like this...That is because I love, love, love to plan.  I have lists and diagrams and ideas and hopes and failures all written in that little grey binder.  I…
July 25, 2011
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!!!This weeks harvest was very exciting because it was another first for us!  We harvested all our onions!!!We also had our first harvest of our second round of spinach!  While a few of the plants have gone to seed already, most of them are quite happy in the shade!This weeks totals:Onions - 8 pounds*Spinach - 2 ouncesCarrots -…
July 18, 2011
Garden Happiness(es)

Garden Happiness(es)

Hilled up potatoes!A corner of our back yardFantastic sunset shot from the back yardChickens like beets :-)The Butternut Squash is starting to run!Snap Peas and beans starting the long climb!Beans make for a pretty cover cropSpinach (second planting) under a tree in the front yardMint and a transplanted tomato...couldn't tell you what kind it is though...it will just have to…
July 13, 2011
Garden Happiness(es)

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 is looking good,…
June 7, 2011
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

This weeks Harvest Monday, hosted by Daphne consists of lots of green (yes, again...I'm practicing my patience this spring).Spinach = 1 lb 14 ozKale = 1 lb 13 ozSnap Peas = 1 ozThe snap peas are the most exciting news of the week because I just love them so much!!!  There were also several peas that we ate off the vine before…
June 6, 2011