The sweet corn in the back yard seems to be confused…it’s not even 3 feet tall, but it’s starting to try to produce corn…weird! The German Butterball Potatoes are getting ready to flower! The Butternut Squash is getting some color texture! Bush Beans, Pole Beans and Snap Peas Mystery tomatoes…
Happy Monday, everyone! This week brought more tomatoes (thank goodness), the last of (the second round of) spinach, a couple of carrots and a few more snap peas… …and the very first summer squash of the year!!! Yay for a little variety (even though I didn’t get pictures of everything)!!!…
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…
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…
The beginnings of a jalapeno! This bed is 4 feet wide & the fence behind it is 6 feet tall. This means, officially, that our tomatoes are out of control. Buddha hanging out with the blue corn . How can something so green bring one so much happiness??? Bush snap…
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…
Hilled up potatoes! A corner of our back yard Fantastic sunset shot from the back yard Chickens like beets 🙂 The Butternut Squash is starting to run! Snap Peas and beans starting the long climb! Beans make for a pretty cover crop Spinach (second planting) under a tree in the…
A few months ago I decided to take the four season garden challenge hosted by Melinda over at One Green Generation. The challenge is all about growing at least one new item in your yard each season. While some of the crops I mentioned in the initial posting about this challenge have failed (peanuts…