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Second Harvest of Iceberg Lettuce

Today was a good day to do another harvest of my iceberg lettuce.  Many of the lower leaves have reached the peak of how big they were going to get and this is when I like to pick them.  I picked several leaves and most of them were very large which I am happy about.

Today made a perfect day to pick them due to the rain they received early this morning.  I like to pick them after a rain because this will help the plant grow more leaves after I pick the ones that are ready right now. (more…)

Thinning Carrots and Ruby Glow Lettuce Harvest

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…)

Start of Lettuce Harvesting

Today was the first day of harvesting lettuce and only my iceberg lettuce for now.  I will most likely start picking my Ruby glow hybrid in another week or so.  I will have to pick them before they begin to go to seed.

I also planted some flowers in the garden this past week.  I had some flowers that I had not planted in the garden and since they were beginning to outgrow their containers I needed to place them in various places throughout the garden. (more…)

Spinach Harvesting and Tilling Garden

It has been a little while since my last post, but I promise that I will not go that long without writing an update again.  This month is getting a little busy and being behind at least a couple weeks I will have to get my garden going as quickly as possible.

I first started with picking spinach leaves at the beginning of the week with most of my plants producing large leaves.  This season I wanted to grow them longer before I started cutting the leaves and it definitely was worth it. (more…)

Digging Up Carrots For Thanksgiving

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…)

Garden Cleanup and Broccoli Harvesting

It has been a while since my last post, but now that the season is pretty much over there is not much to write about.  Luckily I grew a fall crop and my broccoli is starting to come through and I have been harvesting them since the beginning of October.

I also decided that it was time to begin cleaning up the garden.  This means removing my pole bean trellis, digging up roots such as my sunflowers, peppers, eggplants, and many others.  I will probably rake up the loose debris in the garden as well so that I don’t have to do much when the season starts again next year. (more…)

Some More Broccoli, Beans, and Peppers

This week was kind of busy for this time of the year with the harvesting of beans, peppers, and broccoli.  I was not surprised with broccoli because this is the fall season and I expect them to continue growing and flourishing.

I was most surprised with my beans because I thought I had picked the last of them in the previous harvest.  I was going to save the last for seeds, but I noticed that there were actually plenty more to pick.  I made sure that I did leaves some of the large pods on the vines because those will be used for next years seeds. (more…)

Harvested First Heads of Broccoli

Not a whole much has been going on garden wise except for my broccoli starting to produce heads and side shoots.  Once I pick the head the plant should begin to show signs of side shoots where more broccoli will start growing.  This should last until the ground freezes or in a couple of months.

Most of my broccoli plants do have heads or are in the beginning stages of producing heads.  I will have to start cutting them in the next few weeks and to enable them to continue growing smaller broccoli which I can use and enjoy. (more…)

Peppers, Broccoli, Eggplants, and Plenty of Rain

It has been quite a while since I wrote a post on this blog.  It has been raining this entire week and there was nothing really to do in the garden except harvesting some peppers when it did stop raining for an hour or two.

I did manage to pick some peppers before all of this rain started and I got the largest harvest for the season.  I did not have time to pick some more beans, but with the cool weather they seem to no longer be growing flowers for more beans.  The ones that are out there I might just use for seeds for next year. (more…)

Broccoli is Coming and Last Big Harvest of Beans

This is going to be a short post because there is not much that has happened between today and the last post I wrote.  For now many plants are done producing and gardening is coming to a close for the year.

Right now I have finished the last zucchini of the season yesterday and today I picked the last big harvest of beans.  Three containers were filled with large pole beans and there were not many left on the vines. (more…)