I had some more cucumbers that were ready for some harvesting and they were a good size as well. I had a couple of large ones and a few average sized cucumbers that I could use for many different things. These were just cucumbers and pickles will be coming very soon and hopefully plenty of them. (more…)
It looks like that it is that time already to begin planting the main part of the garden indoors. Starting indoors I find to be the best solution for getting ahead of the game. Although space is limited I am still able to grow quite a bit before Spring weather arrives. (more…)
It looks like the season is coming to an end with not many fruits and vegetables left to pick. I have a couple of eggplants, peppers, and some tomatoes still growing, but for the most part it is pretty much done for 2016.
The good news is that I have a fall harvest of broccoli, kale, and cabbage to look forward to. I also still have three watermelons in the garden that are going to need to be harvested real soon as well. I would guess that I will be picking them sometime this month at the latest hopefully. (more…)
It is that time of the year where the harvests are getting smaller and smaller and cleanup of most of the garden will commence. I still have a few melons, tomatoes, and eggplants still growing, but for the most part they will not be that big of a harvest.
The good news is that now we are going into the fall where my broccoli, cabbage, and kale can thrive in the cool weather. I will be soon starting to pick harvests from them. I will give them another month before I actually start thinking about harvesting them. (more…)
This year I decided on trying something somewhat new that I haven’t grown before. This season I wanted to try out honeydew melons along with watermelon and cantaloupes. I have been growing cantaloupes and watermelons every year, but this year I wanted to add a different melon into the mix.
I picked my honeydew melon a few days ago and left it in the fridge because I do not like eating warm fruit. I would say that it only takes about a day for the fruit to become cold enough to eat. Today I decided on finally cutting the melon and see what is inside. (more…)
I was looking forward to picking the first melon of the year and I thought that it was going to be one of my cantaloupes. I was hoping that my honeydew would be ready by this week, but instead one of my cantaloupes had disconnected from the plant meaning that it is ready for harvesting.
I also picked some more steakhouse, Roma, and cherry tomatoes. I did not pick as many cherry tomatoes as my previous harvests, but at least I got a few Romas to make up for it. (more…)
The onions have been growing long enough and most of the stems have fallen over which is the first sign that the onions are done growing. Once they fall over it is time to pick them and that is what I did this afternoon.
It doesn’t take that long to remove all of them, but it can take a couple of days to dry them off. I like to leave them on a table outside and let the hot sun dry them during the daytime. I will probably bring them inside sometime this week as long as the onions dry out. (more…)
Just another day of harvesting both cucumbers and ripe and red cherry tomatoes. I have plenty of cherry tomatoes on my plants and I think I will have many more harvests to accomplish in the next few weeks or at least this month.
My cucumbers have been growing quite well and I have picked at least a couple dozen in the past few weeks. As long as the vines keep growing I should be seeing more cucumbers. (more…)
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…)
