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.
We had a good haul of green beans, so today we canned them. (This picture was a little too much for the full load. I’ll cook the rest tonight).
And now we’re roasting tomatillos, onions, and jalapenos for salsa (fresh and frozen). Apparently I’ve been letting the tomatillos get overripe (yellow) so we did a mix.
Pics from Friday
Got a pretty good haul of onions and garlic today. That’s prolly about half- the other half is still in the ground. GOOD year for this stuff! Many onions bolted, but the remaining ones are big and beautiful
The garlic in the west bed was best- the middle variety in the south bed was good too- I’m a little disappointed with the ones on the sides (I’ll edit to add variety names)
Also got a couple of dinky novas, raspberries, garlic scapes, and some squash
Oh, and yellow beans!
Looks like something (deer?) helped itself to some green bean and raspberry leaves
Oh, and a couple of tomatillo and one
Tiny
Pepper
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
Got a pretty good haul of onions and garlic today. That’s prolly about half- the other half is still in the ground. GOOD year for this stuff! Many onions bolted, but the remaining ones are big and beautiful
The garlic in the west bed was best- the middle variety in the south bed was good too- I’m a little disappointed with the ones on the sides (I’ll edit to add variety names)
Also got a couple of dinky novas, raspberries, garlic scapes, and some squash
Oh, and yellow beans!
Looks like something (deer?) helped itself to some green bean and raspberry leaves
Oh, and a couple of tomatillo and one
Tiny
Pepper
Got a pretty good haul of onions and garlic today. That’s prolly about half- the other half is still in the ground. GOOD year for this stuff! Many onions bolted, but the remaining ones are big and beautiful
The garlic in the west bed was best- the middle variety in the south bed was good too- I’m a little disappointed with the ones on the sides (I’ll edit to add variety names)
Also got a couple of dinky novas, raspberries, garlic scapes, and some squash
Oh, and yellow beans!
Looks like something (deer?) helped itself to some green bean and raspberry leaves
Oh, and a couple of tomatillo and one
Tiny
Pepper
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.
Garlic and onions are prolly going to be coming out soon.
Things are definitely pointing towards fall. We’ve had a LOT of rain and the tomatoes just didn’t do well. I made a big soup today with what I could salvage
The patty pan by the driveway is still a monster though.
It’s been wet. Everything is looking a little sad
