After planting all my tomatoes and broccoli in small trays this season it was time to get them out and place them in larger containers. Most of my plants were becoming pot bound and the roots could not grow any further. I used plastic cups for these plants and this will give them plenty of room for the roots to grow until it is time to put them into the ground.
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I haven’t harvested much this season at the moment, but there are many more things that are getting ready for harvest time. Tomatoes are producing flowers, beans are climbing the ropes, lettuce is flourishing, and broccoli is next on the list. It is almost the peak of garden season and in about a month I should be harvesting the bulk of the fruits of my labor. (more…)
I think this season was pretty good especially with plenty of lettuce in the early spring/summer along with some new additions including snow peas as well as radishes. Cherry tomatoes were plentiful as well as Roma tomatoes which led to plenty of sauces and salsas. Now it is time to clean up the garden and place straw on the appropriate plants to protect them through the cold winter. (more…)
The very last summer plants that I harvest last are carrots. They have been in the ground the entire summer and most of the Fall. I like to leave them in the ground because the ground makes for a good storage area.
I have been picking some cabbage lately and a few more pieces of broccoli. All I have left are a couple of cabbage plants and whatever broccoli I get from now until the ground freezes. (more…)
I have been pretty much weeding the entire garden this week and I wanted to wait until I completed that before writing another post, but instead I will give you a quick update on the garden instead.
I started with picking some of my Ruby glow lettuce earlier in the week and that was very exciting since last year I didn’t get as much as I would have liked. The first harvest I had from them yielded me 65 leaves. This is just short from my iceberg lettuce harvest. (more…)
The past three days have been quite busy with my plants ready for the ground and seeds that need to be planted as well. I wanted to get most of my plants in the ground by the weekend and right now I only have a few flowers and a couple squash plants left.
Tomorrow I should finish with all my plants including planting all the seeds needed for a successful garden. I will be planting some extra seeds of zucchini and pumpkin. (more…)
Now that it is 2016 and the garden season will soon start in another month or so I thought it would be good to buy the seeds I needed for this new year. I have a few new things that I plan on growing this season, but nothing that I can’t handle.
I will be saving some money this year from seeds that I have saved from the previous season. I actually saved some amaranthus seeds that came from both the green and red varieties. As always I saved at least one ear of corn that I left on the stalk to dry and then brought it inside once it was ready. (more…)
It has been a while since I wrote my last post, but it has been pretty uneventful in regards to the garden. I have been picking broccoli on a consistent basis usually two to three times per week. At the moment I have been collecting and it seems that the cold weather is starting to get to them because they have stopped producing.
I picked some large heads this season which I am very happy about and also some small ones too. They didn’t taste bitter which I was a little worried about in the beginning, but in the end they had the exact taste I was looking for. (more…)
I didn’t have to do much today because it started out raining and continued to rain throughout the morning and part of the afternoon. When the weather cleared I decided on planting some more carrots. Some seeds did not germinate when I first planted them so I placed seeds where plants did not grow.
It is common practice to grow carrots twice durring the season and this usually is done with two different rows. I normally don’t plant carrots twice because one planting is usually enough. This time not many seeds germinated and if I didn’t do another planting I would potentially have a low yield. (more…)
Today is just more of an update on the garden since it has been at least a week since my last post. This week has been crazily busy especially with all the rain and the weeds growing in the garden. I have had to work in the garden most of the week trying to remove all the weeds that I could.
All I have left to weed would be the tomatoes and some other small areas. I will begin mulching some plants which might include corn and maybe beans. It all depends how much mulch I am able to collect this week. (more…)
