tomatoes – Page 7 – Chalet Lang

Today

Lots of tomatillos, and the swuash are back

Transplanted some kale and chard

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.

Canning and salsa

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

Weeding and staking

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.

A little progress

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Garlic and onions are prolly going to be coming out soon.

Planting day

I’m very happy with how my starts are looking.

Lots of planting today. The weekend is going to be in the 80’s, nights over 50. I hope I’m not jumping the gun!

Green and yellow beans planted.

Peppers (healthy, jalapeño 2, mini bell 2) and tomatillos 3

Tomatoes (nova 2, legend 1) and okra (clemson 3, jambalaya 3)

Added a sungold to the nova.

One of each pepper in a bag (healthy, waltz, jalapeño, mini bell, anaheim)

Squashes look oh-kay. I might add a seed to each for backup.

Progress from the last week

I’ve been doing some basic things in the yard. I moved one Nova and one tomatillo into season starters, they seem to be doing ok, so are the squash. I put another patty pan and delicata on the slope, but the season starters won’t work there so I made a cover from a basket and plastic and I open it when i open the greenhouse every day.