Tag: peas

Planted onions and peas and greens

It was very cold and rainy today, after a few beautiful false spring days, but I finally got greens, peas, and onions in the ground. I just poured one kind of pea on each side of the fence and covered them with baskets. (The robins cackled at me the whole time.)

I put up the new little greenhouse tent, and put the three buckets inside. I planted arugula (rocket and speedy), mache (vit), and spinach (lakeside and New Zealand). Once they sprout I’ll move the buckets back out to grow, maybe on the deck where we’ll get to it easier.

I planted an assortment of onions- (left to right) ringmaster (plants from grange), red carmen (bulbs from grange), assorted bulbs from last year (these were the tiny bulbs I dug up last summer that I grew from seed), assorted winter sown (tiny) seedlings, yellow spanish (plants from grange).

Better today.

It rained last night, and now it’s safer to breathe. I did some planting for fall stuff

Couple of spinaches in one bucket, more mache (vit) in the other. (I switched, so there might be some cross contamination.) Looks like I planted “New Zealand spinach” in the spring, so I’m planting that again, and “lakeside”.

Planted more snap peas in upper b.

We also did some cleanup.

And put favas in west e.

Oh Deer

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.

I think I missed a day

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

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.