The last two days have been busy in the garden. Yesterday was mainly harvesting. I figured Id do all of that yesterday and then just plant today. But it never works out like that. I swear at this poi...
This last week was a big week for preserving things. So it will be a bit long and I wont go into too much detail. Ill talk about pickled bok choy, strawberry jam, and strawberry syrup. But first spin...
Thats right. Im getting ready for Thanksgiving already. Above is my cranberry that is blooming. I never knew what the flowers looked like before. They are very pretty if a bit unassuming. We planted ...
The week started off with a nice strawberry harvest. Then we had some hot weather predicted, so I decided I need to get some things harvested. First was the lettuce with some turnips. I have Paris Is...
So much has gotten done over the last two days. Today it was pulling all the spring spinach out. It was starting to bolt. I froze one batch. The other half is in the fridge to process tomorrow. The s...
I was talking to my son recently and mentioned I had fresh strawberries coming out of the garden. He will be visiting in a month and was hoping for smoothies. I dont know if the strawberry harvest wi...
Im hoping to plant sweet potato slips at the beginning of June. The beds are currently occupied. One is occupied by my baby Asian greens. The white stemmed bok choy was starting to bolt so I picked t...
I had three strawberry harvests this week. The first photo was so blurry that it didnt come out, but it was also tiny. So here is the middle photo. It was a nice few cups of strawberries. The last on...
My tomato transplants were ready to be planted. Their roots had made it to the bottom of their newspaper pots. They had been hardened off for a week. They were about 6"-7" tall. It takes abou...
Wow I wrote the post about harvesting today and I totally forgot one of my big harvests. So this is just an addendum to my last post. I harvested the komatsuna that was again trying to take over the ...
Today was a day devoted to harvesting. I like to harvest my greens before any hot weather comes in and the next two days will be around 80F(27C). Mostly what I harvested were the chenopodias. In my g...
Last week I showed you one way I made komatsuna. This week is brought to you by bok choy. Ive been frequently asked what I do with all the Asian greens that come out of my garden. Bok choy is probabl...
The strawberries have started. I picked a good handful of them. But even more exciting . . . My daughter decided to come home for the summer for a couple of months. And she brought her dog with her. ...
It was a huge harvest week this week. Basically it was Asian greens, spinach, and radishes with two stalks of rhubarb thrown in. Greens 12.16 lbsRadish 3.24 lbs Weekly total 15.39 lbsYearly total 66....
First Id like to wish everyone a happy Mothers Day. Tonight my son will be in and tomorrow my daughter is flying in to stay for a couple of months. But Sundays are always Moms Day here. My two kids, ...
I havent been outside in the garden very much this week. Ive been feeling a bit under the weather. Or maybe under the oak pollen might be a better metaphor. My husband keeps telling me I need hobby t...
Ive recently harvested a lot of komatsuna. Komatsuna is often called mustard spinach, but in reality it is in the same species as turnips. So this one tastes a lot different than many of the other As...
The weather has been very drippy and cloudy, but I did find a nice time between rains to get the second half of the bean trellis up. I did get a few drops, but nothing soaking. I elected to leave the...
I ordered a pile of mulch and thought I had gotten out of doing any of it. But it turns out that I ordered a bit too much. We were only going to mulch the front landscape beds, but with the extra I m...
At the end of the first week of May last year my post was similar. The weather might have been particularly warm earlier, but my planting schedule for the most part didnt change. Which means my harve...
I used to do overhead shots of the garden on a regular basis but not any more. At the new garden I dont think the shots are as nice. I can do better if I take the screens off of the guest room window...
My calendar says Battle of Puebla, not Cinco De Mayo, but a day by any other name would still mean I had to go work the store today. All was not lost however. The mulch for the yard was delivered yes...
I might not appreciate the cool wet weather, but the plants sure have. Ive used the damp weather to transplant some seedlings that were direct seeded in the garden. My zinnias and mustards came up ju...
I had started making dinner yesterday and as I was kneading the dough I remembered that it would be Thursday soon. OK fine I wasnt kneading the dough. No need to be picky about it. Get it? Knead, nee...
Im very happy that we are getting rain again like we should be. It has been so dry. Yesterday we got about 2/3". So the soil is happy again as are the plants. Im less happy about the temperature....
I finally finished ripping out the last half of the overwintered spinach. The first half sat in the fridge for most of the weekend. I finally got to blanching and freezing it. I shouldnt wait that lo...
My one harvest. Im in the middle of pulling out my overwintered spinach plants. There are a few that are starting to bolt, but the main issue is that the leaf miners have come weeks early. I dont cov...
When I was watering the sweet potatoes plants in their pots I decided they were getting too tangled together. So I split them into two flats instead of one. When I saw the backside of one I wondered ...
Overwintered spinach patch, spring spinach under the cover The weathermen were predicting frost. Channel 7 was even predicting 30F. I wasnt quite believing it since the ground was so warm. I didnt pr...
Most dont think of cooking squash in the spring time. But these were my last two squash. They had kept for 6-7 months with no signs of rot. One was a Black Futsu and the other a Waltham Butternut. Th...
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