My first bean harvest which was about a week ago didn’t yield that many beans or as many as I thought I would get. The second time I ended up getting many more including two full bowls of pole beans.
I have harvested more in other years, but I think that this is a good amount and is enough to start canning and storing them for the Winter. The plants still are producing and I am sure that I will be harvesting more beans in the near future. (more…)
Another busy week now that garden season is in full swing with transplanting, planting seeds, weeding, feeding, mulching and now staking my tomatoes. I like to stake my tomatoes as soon as possible; preferably right when I transplant them to the garden.
Although I didn’t stake them right when I transplanted them I did in fact place them in shortly after they were added into the garden soil. I like to put the stakes as close to the plant as possible so that it will make it easier to tie them to the stakes. (more…)
Now that the entire garden has been tilled I wanted to get as much into the ground as possible. This includes seeds such as corn and beans that need to be planted before June. I also got most of my flowers into the ground which is another important element of my garden.
I still have plants that I have not had the chance to place in the garden, but most of these are just transplants of fruits and vegetables. I will hope to finish them sometime this week. (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…)
Now it is time for my eggplants to begin ripening and I should be picking many more of them in the near future. I only picked two of them so far, but I still have at least five more growing on six different plants. Some of them have only flowers while others have either one fruit or multiple eggplants.
The bigger eggplant weighed one and a half pounds and the smaller vegetable one pound. This is an average size for eggplants and I can still make a good size eggplant Parmesan with these two vegetables. (more…)
This week was more harvesting of various vegetables including beans, corn, and peppers. For now these will be the main harvesting vegetables that I will be picking over the next couple of weeks until my eggplants are ready.
I have about five eggplants growing on three plants which have been getting bigger each day since about a week ago. My other plants are finally starting to get flowers and I think they will have enough time to start producing eggplants of their own. (more…)
The climax of the season is coming to a head and with the large harvests of corn and tomatoes I think that the season is starting to come to a close. There is always a busy part of the season where I collect the most vegetables and fruit. It looks like the past two weeks are the max I will get from my garden.
This not only includes corn and tomatoes which I collected this week, but with all the melons I picked around the same time, cucumbers, zucchini, and the pumpkins which I will be harvesting very soon. (more…)
This is just a short post I wanted to write about the two harvests that I had performed today. It has been a while since I had picked my first steakhouse tomato and my first ear of corn. Now that my corn and tomatoes are starting to ripen I thought it best to start picking them right away.
If I happen to leave corn outside for too long they can get real tough and it would have been a waste of time to grow all this corn in the garden. (more…)
It has been very busy this week especially with all new harvests of corn and cantaloupes. The cantaloupe was nearly by accident because I wanted to check out the connection between the melon and the vine and when I turned it over it just came right off. Good thing the melon was pretty much ready anyways.
The other cantaloupe that I picked was coming off from the vine so I just decided on removing it since it was going to come done at any moment. No reason to leave it on the vine like that. (more…)
I thought since it has been a while since I wrote a post that I would give you an update on the garden. Now that all my plants are starting to produce fruit – except for broccoli and cabbage which will come later- I thought today would be a perfect time to take some pictures of the plants progress.
I left off with my corn producing silks which will lead to ears of corn as long as they are pollinated. With the rain that we received yesterday much of the pollen has gotten wet and there is nothing that I can do except wait for it to dry and try to place it on the silks of the corn. (more…)
