October 5, 2006

harvest moon

The moon looked very big and almost full tonight. It’ll be full in two days – on Friday. The full Harvest Moon is the full moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. Its late this year, as it is usually happens in September. Often, we get our first frost at the first October full moon. I figure, if we make it past this moon maybe we’ll have a late frost and an extended growing season this year. We’ll see.

October 4, 2006

Kentucky Wonder pole beans

My pole beans have not done very well this year. These look pretty, but I’ve only had a couple of meals of beans from 3 seed packages. I guess I need to stop rotating the location of my legumes. Last year they did well, but I had them in another location. As a fellow gardener/blogger commented on earlier in the year on my poor pea crop, I probably don’t have much innoculant in the soil of this bed. I guess what I should do is to grow then here again…

October 2, 2006

Skippy’s garden photo show

I have a new toy. I put some pictures at Flickr. You can view a slide show of my garden growing at: Skippy’s slideshow. Its just 7 views of the garden from above that I’ve taken over this past season. I’m also trying to learn HTML by the trial-and-error method, so please excuse the odd blog formats. Hopefully I’ll figure things out soon.

October 1, 2006

fading cukes

I think this is about it for my cucumbers. They were a good crop this year. A few left, but they don’t taste as good as the mid-summer cukes.

September 30, 2006

Skippy’s garden: from start to peak

These pictures were taken on: May 11, June 12, June 30, July 30, August 28 and September 14. aerial view

September 29, 2006

sunlit beet stems

I thought these red beet stems were really pretty with the sunlight making them glow. I only have a few beets this year – the seedlings were mostly killed by the heavy spring rains. The few I do have are fighting for space with the carrots. But they are hanging in there.

September 29, 2006

multi squash

This is the overactive yellow squash plant I photographed 3 weeks ago. The center of it has rotted a bit, but many of the squashes (at least 10!) are growing fine. How big they get is just a question of when we get our first frost here. Or when we decide we’d like some grilled baby squash, which does sound good.

September 28, 2006

Beefsteak tomato

This is the best tomato from my garden so far this year. It was really delicious. Solanum lycopersicum

September 26, 2006

field corn in Framingham, MA

I wish this corn was in my garden, but its in a field Skippy and I walked through Sunday at Callahan State Park. Beautiful corn! Its exactly twice the height of my 5 1/2 foot tall son. Since I read that corn grows to be 5-12 feet tall, this crop has done well. Ears are enormous! (The corn’s ears, not my son’s.)

September 26, 2006

a closer bird’s eye view

aerial view

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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