I just started removing my onions from the totes they grew in and I am now beginning to dry them out. The plants were beginning to fall over and this is the sign that it is time for them to be removed and placed in a hot sunny spot to dry out. (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…)
Just recently we received a small to light frost that ended the season for most of my summer plants. I did have only a few harvests of the last peppers and one eggplant. Now that we have had many consecutive days of cold weather the plants are now gone except for cabbage, broccoli, and kale. (more…)
It looks like my fall crops are doing quite well now that I have picked several kale leaves and heads of broccoli. I only started harvesting broccoli heads a few days ago, but I have been picking kale leaves for a couple of weeks. Today will be the third harvest of kale for the season. (more…)
Getting the most out of the garden is the most important part of gardening. This season I think I did just that with all the fruits and vegetables that I have picked and still harvesting. With the largest watermelon that I have ever grown I think I have definitely accomplished my objective.
I don’t have much vegetables left except for mainly my fall crops. I have been picking my kale lately and they are growing very large leaves which will make for some great kale soup this winter. I have been making sure to store them in order to use them later. (more…)
Now that it is October and fall is officially here it is time to start focusing on my cooler weather plants. Today was a great day for picking kale and most of the plants had very large leaves that needed to be harvested right away.
I am pretty much done with my summer plants and again the last thing that is out there is the last watermelon that I need to pick. I will be picking it before the weekend so make sure to check back and find out when I finally harvest this last melon. (more…)
Now that it is the end of July and the month of August is upon us it is time to start planting seeds for a good October harvest. That is what I have done today with the planting of kale, cabbage, and broccoli.
I decided to plant an equal amount of seeds using small black containers. I should have eight plants of each if all the seeds sprout in the next couple of weeks. This is all I need for a good harvest. (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…)
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…)
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…)
