Suzie by my garden
The garden is still producing lot’s. So many peppers and beans. I made a couple batches of bean pickles and am planting to roast and freeze peppers soon. My pepper plants are taller than me and all tangled together with the tomato vines. I love searching through them (deep in the vegetable garden jungle) for fruits. My fall salad greens, planted late, are coming along. Tomatoes aren’t ripening fast any more but still many of green ones on the vines. My average first frost is tomorrow. I guess it will…
my garden today
My garden is overgrown with all sorts of vegetables and flowers. I love it!! My tomatoes are tall – 15 feet or so. Peppers, at least 5 feet tall. Squashes, watermelon, and beans are rambling all over. I’m harvesting, canning, and pickling almost every day. And weeding, staking, planting fall crops, and pulling past summer crops. Gradually the summer is moving towards fall. We have temps of 90F coming tomorrow, but that seems like it may be our last hot day. Our nights are cooling off. All we need is…
winter tunnel after -12 F cold snap
I’m surprised how well a double tunnel insulates plants. I thought everything would be dead by now. Especially after our record breaking -12.8 F (-25 C) night. Spinach, kale, mustard, bunching onions and cilantro are perfectly happy. (My kale outside of the tunnel is dead.) Lettuce, arugula and chard in the tunnel are cold-singed but will recover fast I think. Probably turnips and daikon radish (the large dead-ish looking plants in the center) are not good choices for a winter tunnel. We’re getting some warm days, 40s and 50s, and…
my vegetable garden – “panorama” photo
I took this photo today by running along the edge of my garden and trying to hold the camera steady on its “panorama” setting. A crazy perspective – I really don’t have a curved garden. But I think this will be helpful as I draw up a plan for this year’s garden. I’m working on that now. I have extra space outside the raised beds to fill up. I’m imagining it overflowing with flowers and vegetables this year.
inside my winter tunnel
My winter tunnel is full of greens. Spinach, several types of lettuce, arugula, radicchio, kale, chard, collards, salad turnips, daikon and salad radish, cilantro, some frilly red mustard, escarole, bok choi. Can’t beat this balmy December weather for cool weather crops! I have parsley, escarole, broccoli, beets and kale outside with no protection. Plants in my tunnel are from my winter seed sowing calendar, which is part of Skippy’s full-season planting calendar app. I planted everything to test the planting dates in the app. The app is $1.99 (iOS or…
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!
