radish – easter egg mix
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Here’s one of my favorite varieties of vegetables this year! Nicely shaped, beautiful colors, mild flavor, crisp texture. Yummy!radish (Raphanus sativus)
more work on plot expansion
I’m lucky to have assistance with this project. We’ve got some gigantic stumps. (6 big ones and 4 or 5 little ones.) Too bad we couldn’t just bury a charge of explosive under them, back up and let them blow. Nevertheless, we are making progress. And we’ll sleep soundly tonight after all this work. community plot expansion project
thinking about next year already
As Skippy and I walked through the community gardens today, I was thinking about what I’ll do with my garden next year. What a great place to do that – 120+ plots to look at. Lots of great ideas. 1. I LOVE this variety of marigolds. I will watch to find seeds for it. 2. I’d like to find a nice garden bench for my plot. A worn and comfortable one. Maybe Skippy could dig a spot underneath in the cool soil…. 3. I’d like to build a shade structure.…
cooked beans
I cooked up my shell beans yesterday. They aren’t half as pretty cooked, but they were tasty. RECIPE: To cook them, I the beans the beans in water 1 hour with 2 carrots, an onion and a bay leaf and then refrigerated overnight. The next evening I sauteed a sliced onion, carrot, garlic and piece of bell pepper in olive oil then added the beans and three oven dried tomatoes and cooked a bit. Then I added some fresh basil leaves.
fall fields
These are the fields next to our community gardens where Skippy likes to run. Everyday they turn a bit more golden. The white asters just opened this week. The Joe Pye weed and Queen Anne’s Lace are turning brown. The monarchs are still here and seem to prefer the asters. The bees like the goldenrod. Some patches of goldenrod are just covered with bees.Rock Meadow Conservation Land, Belmontbutterflies (Lepidoptera)
community plot work
(Click on the photo and mouse over for plant labels.) A good day for getting a few jobs done at the garden plot. Here’s what we did:– Clear out dead summer squash vines.– Remove all but 3 tomato vines and poles.– Pick dried beans.– Harvest broccoli.– Harvest basil.– Put up trellis for fall peas.– Weeding.In the plot expansion area:– More weed clearing.– Move the weed pile out of the area I plan to use as a garden.– Measure new space: its 12 ft by 21 ft. That’s a total of…
garden kiosk sign
We have a new little kiosk at our community garden, so I posted this informative sign. If you enlarge the photo, I think you can read it.
apple update
I’ve been meaning to post photographs of my FIVE (!) Fugi apples, which are ripening nicely on the little tree in my backyard. This is the first year I have had fruit on my tree that I planted about three years ago. The top photos show an apple with and without its stocking. I’m using knee-hi’s to protect my apples from bugs and squirrels. So far, so good! No spray on these apples. I took the stocking off just to check (and photograph), and then put it back on again.…
the basil is still waiting for harvest
Here’s a project for tomorrow. My basil is ready and waiting to be made into pesto. It is a great crop this year. One row about 8 feet long. I keep the flowers pinched and it makes nice big leaves. Tomorrow, if I get time, (I’ve been trying to find time for this for a couple weeks now) I’ll cut down the plants, bring them home, trim off and wash all the leaves, food process them with olive oil and then refrigerate them. When my husband gets time (he’s the…
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!
