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Starting mid-July, the heat and pests overcame most of the garden, and the gardener. I am still able to harvest peppers, both sweet and hot, about every other day. I also was able to harvest 27 pounds of cucumbers before the pests took over. I definitely feel fortunate and that I got my fair share. [...] Most of the tomatoes were transplanted the last 10 days of March. This week marks their three month anniversary. Given the less than ideal growing conditions of incredibly high humidity and higher than normal heat (we are having heat indexes of a 100 plus day after day….), combined with my decision to stay organic, the [...] “Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.” ~Douglas William Jerrold
The Broccolli actually produced twice this week due to all the rain. They are side shoots, but plentiful and they taste great. We harvested our first kohlrabi. The bunching onions [...] My soil is workable all the time, so planting dates are determined by having sufficient sunlight and enough growing days such that the plant can mature before our heat becomes too strong and ends the life of the plant. I am not practicing true winter sowing as the northerners do. I have read about some [...] Below is a small harvest from the lettuce and broccoli. The lettuce that survived all of the frosts is still producing. The leaves are smaller in February, but I am happy with any at this point. The broccoli keeps producing side shoots. The potato box was planted on 14 February with some Red Norland seed potatoes. [...] I certainly don’t see one of these very often. He was perched on my back fence facing a small creek that runs behind my property line. It had been raining during the day, and temps were cold and getting colder. My son, who is eleven, was the first to recognize it: it’s an owl. I [...] The winter harvest, starting at the upper left corner: mixed lettuces of mostly romain and buttercrunch, (moving to the right)carrot tops and carrots, one turnip, there are a few springs of flat leaf parsley (lower right) next to the broccoli side shoots, then some curly leaf parsley(lower middle), and finally some cilantro, and above that [...] If you let your broccoli floret keep growing, it will eventually look like the photo below. I let the garden rest today, although I did go out and pick some large flat leaf parsley for a breakfast casserole I made for Christmas Day brunch. The weather was warm today, I suspect temps hit 70 F. [...] First animation file. The Flash plugin is required to view this object. [...] |
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