first harvest of the season

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I picked a nice bunch of spinach from my cold frame. These are plants I started late last fall. They grew very slowly over the winter and have now taken off in the warming spring sun. I sauteed it and it was delicious!
 
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Christmas Day lettuce harvest

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I’ve been looking forward to harvesting lettuce on Christmas Day. In the snow. Not much left in the frame now, but enough for a bowl of greens for the Christmas table. They were very fresh and crisp. I picked spinach, baby beet greens, escarole frisee and curly red lettuce. I also added some baby kale for color. I think this is my last harvest of the season. Maybe what’s left in the cold frame will wait until spring and regrow when it warms up again. I’ve heard spinach is good…
 
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today’s harvest

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The broccoli is from my cold frame. The spring plants are producing a few nice heads now that the weather has cooled down. My tomatoes continue to trickle in. A handful a week. No frost in my yard yet. But the sun is so low that I will pull the plants soon anyway. The herbs are great now: parsley and thyme today.
 
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this weekend’s harvest

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Arugula, beets, carrots, red cabbage, oak leaf lettuce, escarole frisee, a big bunch of dill, perennial (walking) onion greens, the last of my newmex chiles, a tiny butternut squash, lemon thyme, parsley and a few tomatoes.
 
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today’s tomato harvest

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I picked a bunch of green tomatoes to ripen inside. I gave half to my mom and this is my half. The plants are still up in the garden and look fine, though the tomatoes aren’t growing much any more. There’s not much light left as the sun has fallen below the neighboring house.
 
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fall counter

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My counters are full of bowls and baskets of vegetables! A bountiful year. The earth has been good to us.
 
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digging sweet potatoes!!!

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My son helped me dig sweet potatoes on Sunday evening. What a great event!!! I have to admit that to get my 18 year old into the garden, I had to trade for something he was interested in – $$. Since he currently doesn’t have a job, but wants cash, I offered him the rate he got at his most recent job. Anyway, he got the garden fork and started in on the bed as I ripped out the vines. My sweet potato bed was about 4 by 4 feet.…
 
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today’s harvest – cukes and tomatoes

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My mom emailed and asked if I was OK. She said there were no entries on my blog since last Monday! I’m caught! Well, the garden is still growing and I’m fine I told her. Just one of those weeks where the job kind of takes over everything else. But I do have a bunch of garden things to catch up on. My larder is filling up. My fall lettuce is doing well. And I’m looking forward to a fun day of digging sweet potatoes very soon. Today’s harvest is…
 
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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

What I planted recently

Jan 21
thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



What I'm planting soon

April 1
peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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“I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together.” – Greg Peterson

"What can happen to a seed is a miracle."

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