today’s harvest
The dogs and I spent the afternoon in my community garden plot. It was another beautiful fall day. I dug sweet potatoes. A 4×4 foot bed full of them. I think I got a better harvest last year, but still the yield was good. I always love discovering fresh tubers in the dirt. I pulled the last small celeriac too and cut some of the ever present dill. And, once again, picked a ton of cherry tomatoes. That tomato plant just won’t quit! A fellow gardener told me the she…
popcorn!
Today we pop-tested my new crop of popcorn. It was delicious and popped great. Very small kernels though. It looks like we can work on eating the rest of the crop now. Ha! I harvested way more than we can eat ourselves. I look forward to packaging it for gifts. Mid-spring, I planted a 6 x 6 foot bed with 6 rows, 9 plants per row. My neighbor commented she’d never seen corn planted so close together! The popcorn variety: Robust 997 from Johnny’s. The corn sprouted great and grew…
today’s harvest
My garden has only a few crops left. Salad greens (of course), carrots, peppers and eggplants. My sister and I walked through to harvest and were surprised to find green beans too! I left the pole bean vines up to mature a few seed beans and thought they were done producing a month ago. But lots of new young beans today. Green beans for dinner.
pear harvest
A great year for pears. I picked about 150 today. Bartletts and Kieffers. They filled my trug and I had to struggle to get the bucket into and out of the car. I’ve read recently that its best to chill freshly picked pears at 30*F for 4 days or so. Then they can ripen at room temperature. Last year I didn’t know this and didn’t get the best ripening I am hoping chilling will help. I have lots of pear recipes marked in my canning book.
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
