It looks like many of my fruit and vegetables are starting to appear within the garden and some harvests will have to be done real soon. I have already harvested a zucchini last week and I have a few more in the garden that are just about done. I also have tomatoes that are beginning to turn and some corn that is just about ready for picking. Let’s discuss some of the harvests that I did this past week. (more…)
For the past couple of weeks I have been picking blueberries until the season is over for them. At the moment there are still plenty of berries left even though I have picked over ten pounds of them from this year’s harvests. Soon there will be harvests from my corn, zucchini, tomatoes, and possibly pumpkins and melons. (more…)
It is that time when many vegetables are ready for picking. Zucchinis are sometimes the first to be ready, but they are not always first. It looks like my cucumbers and some pickles are going to be done at the same time. (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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
It is now September and with the fall season just around the corner my garden harvest is coming to a close for this year. Cooler weather is in the near future and most of my plants have reached their peak or are calling it quits for the year.
Five out of six of the pumpkins I am growing have ripened to the point that I could pick them very soon. I like to pick them later usually closer to the month of October rather than now. Tomatoes are done for the most part with only a couple of plants that have a few tomatoes left to pick. (more…)
