squash – Page 8 – Chalet Lang

Starting to wrap up

The tomatoes are still ripening, but have black spots.

There are still a few green beans coming in, and some squash.

The beginning of the end…

I pulled most of the tomatoes because it’s been raining, and the plants were getting that “last chance” look.

lots of green beans still

And some blueberries

And the winter squash finally have something to show.

First day back in the garden

This was my first day harvesting since my surgery a week ago. (Might have overdone it… /:)

Lots of lovely nova tomatoes and peppers. Def doing those from seed again next year. We are now talking about our canning options, because… The kitchen is already full of ripe guys.

Also got a bunch of green and yellow beans. I went through and cleaned up the plants a bunch, pulling excess leaves off.

We’ve had some okra and peas.

This was the second-chance plant, and it has given us much

Everything else is a little overgrown, because I’ve not been able to harvest or eat much. I wish wish wish we had a larger freezer for this stuff.

Gonna need a bigger bowl

I sent p out to the garden today because I’ve been laid up after surgery- good thing, the harvest was over my lifting limit.

Spread out

And we still have veggies in the fridge and these things on the counter

Yay!!!

Yesterday we had a visitor.

[wpvideo HmvNB692 ]

Berries

It’s smoky again, but we spent another morning picking berries. P is putting these blackberries into mead

And these blue berries will be eated.

I also cut a branch off this long-bearing blueberry bush to try to (lazily) propagate.

Washing the smoke out

It’s been hot and very smoky here, but this morning we had a little rain and the air is almost breathable. The garden is looking a-ok

Got a good amount of food out today.

Cooked up a yummy low-fat lunch to starve my gallbladder.

Dude, I love arugula.

That was a few days ago at 4:30. So much smoke that the sun turned red

I fertilized the tomatoes, squash, and blueberries a couple of days ago.

MORE!

What to say… There is much food. The Arugula is delicious, I’m also growing it inside, in the Aerogarden.

Some of the onions are still going. The hops are GIGANTIC. I found one okra, and that is enough to make growing them from seed worth it. The tomatoes are doing well, ripening. P loves spicing the sauce ones up and cooking them down into sauces. I think we have enough that we might eventually tire of that and have to can some. Green beans are doing well. I think the squash could use more irrigation (note for next year) as could the blueberries. (I filled a pocket up of blueberries yesterday. Whimsical!)

Uhm, looks like I might have a couple of Brussels sprouts and some leeks this winter; raspberries are happy.

Strawberries are having a second (small) berry time. Yay!

All of this is perfect timing to make me little less aware of my health. My gallbladder went from warning me occasionally, to hurting whenever I have any kind of fat. I do have a relatively low fat diet as a vegetarian who mainly eats home cooked meals, but I am missing my cheese and olive oil something fierce. There is hopefully a cure on the horizon, but it will mean a short break from tending the plants.

In the meantime we are getting creative with proteins, and I have developed a snack I call “hand salad”, which is basically a handful of lettuces (kale, arugula, mesclun) and tomatoes which I shove in my mouth.

It’s like potato chips, except not at all.

Take that nutritionist!

I planted some more arugula, Brussels sprouts, leeks, cilantro, and cover crops in the bare spots. Hopefully I get more sprouts.

Tag: squash