So, I knew we were taking a risk clearing out some of the blackberry without putting up a fence between the garden and the field- and after the field got mowed right up to our property a furry friend starting grazing- specifically on the yellow beans, green beans, and raspberry– although now he’s moved on to the beets and carrot tops. Les sigh.
He has lots of options though, so P put in poles to make the beans grow higher.
Todays haul wasn’t half bad.
Green Beans out our ears. I finally pulled the last of the start onions and garlic, braids coming soon. Still got some berries- and more tomatoes and tomatillos. And carrots and beets
I’m loving the carrot top “pestos” with onions, garlic, whatever green herb (basil, cilantro, oregano) and an acid (red wine vinegar, citrus). P put it on pizzas tonight.
More things
Strawberry volunteer
Before and after garlic cleanup
One of the rhubarbs
Squash climbing the grapes
The most beautiful onion
Pulled up the first few onions (the driest) and have them curing in baskets
Same with some of the garlic
The varieties in West E are MASSIVE. All of the things I’ve pulled look healthy (:
Got the first few yellow beans, and a couple of sun gold
Still thinning out the carrots and beets
A couple of baby onions and leeks are coming up in the seeded bed.
Raspberries! (There are blueberries at the neighbor’s)
Arugula is reseeded
Tiny baby scarlet runners
Green bean flowers
More pretties
Upcoming yellow beans
Still getting a few peas, and finding some I missed
Did a bunch of cooking. Raspberry coulis, sauted garbanzo peas zucchini and greens, carrot tops (boiling water 3 minutes) garlic garbanzo cilantro lemon juice hummus, roasted carrots patty pan beets onions, fresh bread… yum.
I may finally have done carrots right! These are just the guys I thinned out.
Plus- see those first two singold!?!
Also got some berries and beets
The garlic in West e is kind of falling over, so I pulled one to check it. HUGE and gorgeous. Yay!
We also did some more work on the blackberry pit. I’m happy to be reclaiming some more space (in time)
We mulched a bunch more yesterday, made some progress.
Today i planted beets, carrots, and parsley in South C (which I prepped with more soil and compost yesterday.
There were actually some tiny onion and leek sprouts from my seeds, i added the tiny “winter sowed” sprouts to the bare spaces.
Next year- start winter sow earlier, January?, and make sure to water.
something went digging in my peas. It looks like an animal of some sort. The sprouts are mostly intact, just buried.
Arugula is bolting. I guess it flowers based on time?
“Plant parsley with beets”
Picked kale, arugula, and tiny beets today.
Spent the afternoon cleaning up leaves and dead plants. P is working on the fence because we have a big planting project coming up in the upper yard.
He pulled the apple tree a little while back, because we realized we would never win the fight against pests.
The arugula and roots are going strong, the kale is hanging in there, and the asparagus still has green (I’m supposed to cut it back when it turns brown.)
I had another big haul today (mostly squash) and pulled some onions. First Roma tomatoes are starting to get color.
Pulled the rest of the radish and turnip plants from upper c and reseeded with beets and carrots.
