October 10, 2016

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…

October 7, 2016

my garden today

October 2, 2016

a weekend of rain

It’s raining. All day today and more tomorrow. it rained several days last week too. We are feeling lucky that we got our lawn over seeded, aerated, and limed just in time. We also had a big magnolia tree planted for us in the front yard. The rain is good for both of these. I hope it will fill up our reservoirs. I keep hearing the Mellencamp song in my head “Someday the rains will come, when you expect it least…”. I guess they are here. But I think the…

September 29, 2016

low reservoir

This is the Cambridge reservoir today. We’ve had a little rain in the past couple days, so there is actually some water in it. At times this summer, it’s been just a trickle. I don’t know how the ducks and fish have survived (if they have). Yes, the big gardening topic here is still the drought.

September 26, 2016

sweet potato harvest

I harvested my sweet potatoes today. I just had one small row that I grew at my community garden. With a very bad vole population this year, I was afraid I find all sorts of half eaten tubers. But only one had nibble marks. And many of the tubers were pretty good size. I was surprised to see several were sprouting already – underground. What’s that about? The hot weather? I’m glad I got them out of the ground a bit early. I normally would wait ’til after a frost…

September 25, 2016

another farmers market

I sold honey again at our local farmers market. This time I sold all 2 dozen lbs I brought with me and took orders for about 30 more. Now I’ve sold all of the honey I hoped to sell – about 60 lbs, half of what I had. The trick was bringing Suzie! She is a great sales dog! She got lots of attention at our little table. I also brought a basket full of gourds to sell. I sold a few at 50 cents each, but not many. I…

September 19, 2016

RAIN!

We got an inch and a half of rain last night! Wow. And more is on the way. Another 10 inches or so will fill up our reservoirs. (Not to be greedy, an inch and a half is great 🙂

September 18, 2016

our drought continues

Rain seems to go north or south of us. It’s so dry here. I’m watering my vegetable garden, but that’s all. Or regulations are to hand water only, between 6 pm and 9 am, so I go out at night (sometimes with a flashlight) and water.

September 17, 2016

Here’s a picture of me just after I set up my table at the Farmer’s Market. I ended up selling 15 jars. Pretty good I suppose for a very small Farmer’s Market.

September 17, 2016

honey for sale

I’ll be selling my honey tomorrow at the Lincoln MA farmers market. Come by and try some if you’re in the area. It’s in the morning, 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. It will be the first time I’ve sold my honey. I wonder how it will go. I’ve produced over 100 lbs since I started keeping bees two years ago.

weeks and counting until my last spring frost