Eric Fernandes, Author at Eric's Organic Gardening Blog

Digging Up Potatoes Before The First Frost Arrives

It was finally time to start digging up my potatoes which took much longer than previous years of growing potatoes. Normally Yukon gold was my favorite potato to grow and it still is, but this year was very disappointing. Not many Yukon potatoes sprouted which gave way to very few plants which in turn equals very poor harvest. On the other hand I also planted Kennebec seed potatoes as well and they provided a very good harvest this year. This definitely made up for the poor performance I got from all my Yukon gold favorites.

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Harvested The Two Largest Eggplants in My Entire Life

I have been continuously been picking tomatoes throughout the summer and have finally been getting Romas pretty much at the same time. Beefsteak tomatoes have been quite large along with my cherries and Romas. I had so many Romas last week that I decided it was time to make some tomato sauce for Winter storage. I collected over 20 pounds of Roma tomatoes which is plenty for a large batch of tomato sauce. I made 15 quarts of sauce that I will save for the winter which will make delicious and excellent meals.

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The beginning of harvesting corn for 2022

Corn is The Latest Vegetable to be Harvested in the Month of August

A little bit less than half of the corn this week has been harvested with many more ears of corn not quite ready yet. The ones that I have harvested this year look to be quite good in size and hopefully in taste once I bite into a couple of them. Today was the first harvest of corn and was able to pick 15 ears of corn that weighed 7 1/2 lbs after the husks were removed from them. I think there are at least double that still growing on the stalks.

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Cucumbers and Onions are This Weeks Harvests

Cucumbers were one of the first summer plants added into the garden this season and it makes sense that I would start harvesting them in the beginning and middle of July. I have several vines with plenty of cucumbers on them so I should be harvesting many more of them throughout the month. The onion stems had fallen over and it was time to dig them up and getting dry. I like to dry them outside in the hot sun in order to use them as soon as possible. Storing them in a dry garage or basement is another way to dry them as well.

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Time to Spring into Action

Now that spring weather is warming up it is time to get gardening right away. Although the month of May was not very cooperative in terms of temperatures June seems to be much more normal. I have pretty much planted everything into the garden from my dill and alyssum to my tomatoes and my spring crop. There were a couple of rain days recently and I wanted to take advantage of that so I moved as fast as I could in order to get all to most of my plants into the ground. There are just a couple of tomatoes that I will have to add to the garden, but for the most part everything is either planted or sowed.

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Ready for Gardening in 2022?

Welcome back to a new year and the new gardening season of 2022. Hopefully this year will be an exciting season with some new plants arriving and some new supplies I will be utilizing for a great and bountiful crop. Last year was a very unusual season with plentiful rain and water for my plants. This year is looking to be a more normal summer with very little rain and hot temperatures. I can now really test out my new watering system using soaker hoses. It was tough last year with all the rain, but I am looking forward to see if they can keep up with the possible lack of rain. Not having to water my plants daily does save me some time and focus on other aspects of gardening.

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Spring Crops That Survived Through the Summer and Into Fall

Right now I still have broccoli and kale which were both planted in the spring still producing leaves and broccoli florets. These are normally planted in the fall, but this is one of those years that I decided to plant them early in the spring to see if they would produce more. Broccoli on the hand was planted to last through the hot summer months while kale just happened to survive this long with some proper care. I did plant some pea seeds a couple of weeks ago and I hope that they will sprout soon. This is the only fall crop I have planted for this year.

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Following Onions Comes Eggplant and Broccoli Harvesting

It is now prime harvesting time with onions picked out of the totes and now broccoli, eggplants, more tomatoes, and beans are ready. At this moment I probably have picked every vegetable from the garden except for pumpkins which I picked much later and melons that will also come later in the season. I also started picking the second row of corn which is a all white type of corn. They looked very weird, but were actually quite delicious and didn’t taste that much different from any other corn I have grown.

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Just some corn from the first harvest of 2021

Zucchini, Cucumbers, and Even Corn Harvested

Now it is harvest time with several plants that are ripening with many vegetables for hopefully a good continuous harvest. I hope that these plants continue to grow and thrive as long as the weather is good they should produce a good crop for the season. Corn will eventually end much sooner than the rest of my garden, but I am going to enjoy whatever corn is picked. There are some others that are almost ready to pick such as tomatoes and possibly an eggplant real soon. I also have many pepper plants with peppers growing on them and they should start being harvested as well.

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Many Vegetable Harvest are on The Way This Year

Right now there are many harvests that are going to be coming very soon now that most of my plants are producing flowers and fruit. I have so far been picking mostly my strawberries and kale. My strawberries are all done for the season and my kale continues to grow and as long as it produces more leaves I will harvest them. Some of the plants started to go to seed, but I was able to catch it time and cut off the bolting part of the plant. Let’s get into what I will be picking in the near future from my garden.

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