July 26, 2007

harvest

Today’s harvest included several firsts: my first tomato, summer squash, chili pepper, and cucumber! Probably also two lasts: the broccoli and snap peas. The harvest list: broccoli, chili pepper, cucumber, zucchini squash, 1 cherry tomato, baby carrots, purple and green beans, Capucijner and sugar snap peas.harvests from my vegetable gardens

July 24, 2007

lettuce!!

Ahhh – summer dinners. As usual, the main item on our plates is my garden lettuce. This seems to be the summer lettuce slump though. It isn’t growing as well as it did in the spring. I’ve been planting it about every 3 weeks, but right now it isn’t growing very well. What is doing good is the escarole (Natasha), which is heading up and is delicious still from an early spring planting. I just planted a similar variety yesterday for a fall/winter crop, but I’ll also try to remember…

July 21, 2007

green beans for dinner

These are Haricot Vert “Maxibel” Bush green beans that I mail ordered from Seeds of Change. I planted this row in the middle of May (with inoculant). I can report that they taste delicious! Fabaceae

July 21, 2007

thyme for picking peas

Looks like its time to pick the Capucijner peas. The purple pods are drying on the vines and the tendrils are turning brown. I pick a few dry pods each day and shell them. I haven’t decided yet whether to make a batch of soup or save them for planting next year. Pisum sativum

July 1, 2007

first chili pepper

I found a little chili pepper today. There are also lots of blossoms setting fruit now. Looks like it will be a good chili crop. The weather is hot and sunny – which I hope will give me spicy hot chilies. Something is chewing on the leaves a bit. In general, I have a lot of insects in my garden this year. A lot of green and black aphids, white flies, several types of beetles, a lot of black and green flies, a few wasps and a very few bees.…

June 22, 2007

first pea harvest

This is my first pea harvest. Snap peas and tendrils. Just a small amount. We actually ended up eating them raw in salad. There are many more out there fattening up on the vines.harvests from my vegetable gardens

June 12, 2007

Capucijner peas

I’m enjoying watching this beautiful pea in my garden. The Capucijner pea is a field pea, a variety specifically grown for drying. Here’s some information I found about them: “During the late Middle Ages, Capuchin monks in Holland and northern Germany devoted considerable energy to the improvement of field peas for agricultural purposes. This has resulted in a group of large-seeded gray peas referred to as Capuchin, especially those from the Netherlands where the breeding of new pea varieties became a national pastime by the early 1600s. One of the…

June 8, 2007

it’s lettuce and arugula season!

A green harvest – lettuce, arugula and garlic chives. I am trying many new crops this year. One of them is arugula. It is doing great and is deeelicious! I am on the lookout for places to squeeze in more rows of this green. Lactuca sativa

June 3, 2007

lettuce harvest

Lettuce is probably my favorite garden crop. Today I harvested a BIG bowlful. It should be enough for salads for us for 2 days. Hopefully I can stop buying lettuce for the rest of the season now. I have some hot weather lettuce as well as escarole, endive and arugula. Today I harvested black seeded simpson, arugula and some mixed oak leaf and red lettuces. The black seeded simpson is a great variety. It grows very fast, is a nice light green color and tastes tender and delicious. Yum! It…

May 27, 2007

harvest of greens

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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