zucchini search
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This is 39 second action thriller video where the gardener searches the dark and dangerous underworld of a squash bed in search of a lurking zucchini. I won’t reveal the final ending, but its almost as exciting as the last few pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Well, to a fanatic gardener anyway… At some point in the video, you can see the white cheesecloth I wrapped around one or two of the squash stems. This is a non-chemical experiment to protect from squash vine borers, which are…
a tour of Skippy’s vegetable garden
I have been experimenting with video’s. This is a 1 minute tour of my garden early this morning. (I have to warn that it’s pretty poor quality video.) The first garden bed has fading peas (Capucijner and sugar snaps) and lettuce, the next bed has beans, basil and carrots, then comes kale and broccoli and back by the fence are the big leaves of summer squashes. After the gate are my recently transplanted cucumbers on their trellis and then the giant tomato vines. Last of all Skippy comes over and…
fall seed order
I placed an order of fall garlic and seeds yesterday for planting in mid-August. I ordered from Sand Hill Preservation: Lettuce: Black Seeded Simpson, Merville de Four Seasons, PrizeheadEndive: Full Heart BatavianGreens: Arugula, Fall Greens MixGarlic: Old HomesteadPeas: Alderman (Tall Telephone)Radish: Round Black Spanish S&P
fall broccoli started
I’m looking forward to a fall crop of broccoli, though I’m hoping I haven’t started these plants too early. I didn’t expect them to grow so fast. We’ll see. Brassicaceae
baby soybeans!
Soybeans are another first for me this year. I am hoping for a good crop of edamame. Good news – the plants have lots of hairy little pods now! Fabaceae
garden work
Instead of taking pictures today, I actually did some work in the garden. I pulled up the blighted pole beans (instead of complaining about them some more) and prepared the soil to plant lettuce. I harvested a big pile of green beans. I moved the bean poles to another spot where I will try planting shell beans. I also transplanted my cukes from the far back corner of the garden where they were getting thoroughly shaded between the summer squash and my big rose plant. I moved them into well…
pretty snap peas
I keep getting more snap peas! The first crop was great and I never expected the plants to flower again and keep producing peas. My green shell peas stopped flowering several weeks ago and I pulled them, but these snap peas keep going strong. Pisum sativum
Belmont Victory Gardens
Skippy and I walked through a nearby community garden on Sunday with my camera. communitygardeningBelmont Victory Garden
no tomatoes yet
Today was supposed to be the day. I was trying to get a ripe tomato 2 weeks earlier than last year. I bought bigger plants and planted them in a warmer location than last year. Everything was going well. The plants bloomed very early. But now they are ripening slowly. Lots of green tomatoes today, but no red ones. I’ll keep an eye on them. That first tomato is always exciting. Solanum lycopersicum
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!
