That was one full drawer, 9 pint jars, 20 min processing. Yum. Green beans.
Category: Harvest
Still giving
Good haul today- tomatoes are still looking ok- we might have some cool weather coming up, so I’ll keep an eye on them. (I’m pulling the tomatoes early to ripen inside, anything orange).
The jalapeños never got very big, but they look plump and healthy. I’ll need to remember to pull them before a cold snap.
Look at this enormous marigold! It’s from whatever seeds I sprinkled last year at the base of the rocks.
Squash are getting powdery mildew. Happens every year. Delicata look established, which is good. Prolly have another week or so of summer squash.
The okra is still going!
Peas, kale, and favas are getting started.
Looks like it’s almost grape time- we’re going to make jelly this year.
Salsa Again
Made a full batch (6 quart jars and 3 pint) of zesty salsa with the ripened tomatoes.
Here’s the quantity of tomatoes that went in
Sunny days…
We’re getting a couple more sunny days and most things have perked up a bit. I’m letting a lot of the runners go to bean.
A bit more
Also the kale and peas are starting to come up?
Tomatoes aren’t slowing down
But everything else is
but do have some blossom and rot on the tomatoes at the base of the rocks. And the plum tomatoes look mineral starved despite fertilizing.
Here are some shots
And my pretty new dahlia that I got surprise gifted while picking up a spider plant on but nothing
More Undilly Beans
Pretty much a full drawer for 5.33 jars. Perfecto.
Planting fall
Planted and harvested a bunch. Made pasta salad, roasted carrots, and carrot top pesto (garlic, lime juice, cilantro, garbanzo)
Planted more carrots. Btw the musico carrots were the clear winner this year. Purple snap did nothing (well, I got one.)
Planted fava, kale (micro kale hopefully works ok), chard in South C
Planted peas, and kale in West E (fava bed)
Planted arugula, spinach, mache in plant bags. Fertilized most of everything.
Salsa day
We made tomatillo and zesty salsa today.
Aug 21 harvest
