today’s harvest

 
 
I am digging my potatoes from the front of the bed toward the back as we need them. I finished a row of German Butterball and started on a row of Adirondack Red today. Fun to unearth the bright magenta/pink tubers. Unlike soil-colored Butterballs, these seem to pop right out of the dirt. As usual, a bunch of RC zucchini and Zephyr yellow squash. Very prolific varieties. I have very low production form my tow other summer squashes: Starship and Yellow Crookneck. Maybe they will produce later in the season.…
 
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summer abundance

 
 
  Today’s harvest: 1 head cauliflower 5 red and white beets with greens a bunch of carrots 3 heads of red lettuce 1 chili pepper (the season’s first) 3 Costata Romanescu zucchini a couple green pattypan squash a couple yellow crookneck squash (season’s first) some bunching onions 4 cucumbers and a very pretty radicchio (season’s first)
 
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today’s harvest

 
 
The garden has grown an amazing amount in the past week!!! I was in awe as I walked through and harvested.
 
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pea harvest

 
 
  Today’s harvest was a pile of peas and a few Meyer lemons. The lemons will ripen up with a few days inside on the window sill. The peas will not last that long. They will disappear at dinner time. I’m  still deciding how to cook them, but likely straight up with a little salt and butter. I have forgotten, again, what variety of pea I planted where. I planted 3 types of peas this year in my parents garden and 2 types in my garden. My parents have been…
 
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March harvest

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We are harvesting lots of fat spinach leaves from my cold frame and tender lettuce from winter sowing under lights.
 
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garden vegetables on the cutting board

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These are peppers from the Iddy Betty Bossy seeds I brought home from Switzerland. Just peppers from the supermarket, but son thought they were especially tasty and asked me to grow them. They did well and I will have more seeds to save and grow again next year.
 
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harvest

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Another good week in the garden. I didn’t know there was anything left to harvest. Thought small carrot and beet tops meant no roots. But when I pulled them I found lots of nice baby roots for both. Delicious! And I hadn’t looked close at my patch of fall greens to see the baby bok choy. These were excellent sauteed with garlic and ginger. I was able to pick a full bowl of salad greens – some curly red lettuce, mizuna, cilantro, and other greens/purples whose names I don’t know.…
 
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giving thanks

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This is a collection of photos of my harvests this year. How do you measure the success of a garden? The weight of your produce? The number of meals? A new variety discovered? The hours of pleasure? The number of broken fingernails and splinters? Good sleep after hard work… relaxation after a job all week… fresh garden martinis… I’m trying to think of a way to rate my garden this year. It has brought piles of potatoes, days of digging, dreams of dirt, melon martinis, and filled the grill with…
 
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Kathy Martin
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

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Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



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peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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