blueberries – Chalet Lang

Wander, fertilize, and plant

Got some squash, Romano beans, remaining peas, thinned carrots, asparagus, rhubarb, berries, and a few more sungolds. I planted more beets and carrots in the bed with the old favas. I also planted some more peas on the back side of the pea bed, and the remaining sweet Loraines as a ground cover in the onion bed (I ordered another variety of fava for next year.) I also replanted herbs in pots, fertilized. thanks and put mesclun mix in the empty spinach and corn salad pots. i cut back the lavender and artichokes that were blocking the rock steps. I’m tired.

I’ll prolly start having other tomatoes (plum and Roma) in the next week. Yay!

Finally cooler

It’s been too hot lately- we had a week over 90- and I’ve been hiding out from the sun. Some plants are very happy though.

I cut the favas and pulled the beans. I think I want to try a different variety and next year, though.

I also pulled the rest of the garlic to cure.

It was the first good sized harvest- with Romano beans, patty pan, zucchini, yellow squash, plump blueberries, thornless blackberries, and thinned out carrots. And some nice sized artichokes.

The flowers are pretty too

Also- I planted the last straggler pepper into a bag, and moved one of the lavender stems I’m trying to propagate into a little pot.

Warm days

This will is getting warm. i started pulling garlic.

Harvest pics for today

Harvest today

Potatoes!

That’s one bad of potatoes. They look yummy.

I also fertilized every bloody thing, and watered soak it in. There are probably more green beans, too.

Today’s harvest

Just kidding, it was actually this

We finally got rain yesterday after more than a month of dry. Everybody seems happier.

Our house is a berry berry berry fine house

<we have not planted any of these yet.

Today we got a whole bunch of awesome plants from a friend who is moving- mostly berries. P was quick to get the mature blueberries (~20yo “Blue and Gold”) in the ground , but we still have a lot to decide about.

She also gave me some of this mint variety – looks like it’s Bee Balm or Monarda. I planted near the elephant ear.

These plants will also need planting- columbine in the bottom of the first pot, and something with yellow flowers in the second one.

Native raspberries and thornless blackberries and strawberries.

Here are the notes I took about pruning (in February) “prune dead wood, and branch under 6″, old canes (to base), crossing canes”

Today

Lots of tomatillos, and the swuash are back

Transplanted some kale and chard

Yay Food

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.