Category: Backyard Homestead

Garden update for June. Still getting nice harvests of green beans and cucumbers. The rain has damaged some of our plants and we need to remove and replant in some areas.

In this video we harvested our first yellow straight neck squash, cucumbers, some red onions, asparagus, and our peaches. This combined for a really nice lunch straight from the yard!

We work hard to keep all of our soil covered in the garden. We mulch with anything we can find – grass clippings, hay, chopped leaves, discarded plants, paper, cardboard, anything that will break down and feed the soil!

It is starting to get warm here! It is too hot for our Oregon Sugar Pods so we go ahead and remove them in this video to make room for more Roma Tomatoes.

Today we are transplanting Roma tomatoes that we started from seed into the garden.

Just a garden update for May. Our garden is finally starting to look like a garden again!

Just a short garden update! We have been keeping our seeds in multiple shoeboxes. I found a photo organizer that I thought would work really well for organizing our seeds so we can better tell what we have at a glance!

We rarely get snow at all here in Mississippi. This was a beautiful snowy treat for us!!

Our broccoli is still doing great. We have harvested two heads and the rest are about ready. We had some fresh for our lunch!

We are planting Oregon Giant Sugar Pod Peas, Bloomsdale Spinach, three different types of lettuce, carrots, and are trying a new way of planting our Red Candy onions! Our fall/winter garden is starting to look good!!

Just a little garden update! Our Green Magic broccoli is doing well and we have Red Russian kale and Bok Choy close to ready to harvest.

Our peas and climbing green beans are starting to produce well. Our Roma tomatoes are finishing up. Our peppers are really kicking in and we have a baby pumpkin!

Today we harvested Roma tomatoes, climbing Rattlesnake green beans, peppers and okra. The garden is still doing well!

We harvested Roma tomatoes, green beans, and peppers today. It was finally time to say goodbye to the cucumber plants and bush green plants. We removed them and planted some new summer crops.

Today we harvested our Silver Queen sweet corn. We harvested all the ears that were ready and left several to mature for about another week.

We harvested our first Silver Queen sweet corn. Sweet corn and green beans for lunch fresh out of the garden!

Out playing and harvesting in the garden today! We picked pears, cucumbers, squash, green beans, and blackberries. This is actually some harvest footage over a couple of days. Our squash is finished, so we removed the plants and planted purple hull peas in the row.

Today we harvested our peppers for the first time. They are producing pretty well so far!

We have removed a lot of our cool weather crops and planted our peppers.

Today we harvested our white and red Candy onions!

We harvested all our cauliflower today and removed the plants. We need the room to plant peppers and peas!

Our Silver Queen sweet corn got blown down twice in a row. We watched each day as it stood itself back up! Pretty fun to watch!!

Our cauliflower is looking great! Today we are pulling the leaves over the cauliflower to blanch the heads. We hope to harvest soon!

We had a nice garden harvest today. Our squash and cucumbers are starting to produce very well and our blackberries are still coming in!!

We have had our new chickens fenced beside our original girls for about 6 weeks. Today is the day we remove the fence and let them mingle!

We finally got some decent sized broccoli! Today we harvested broccoli, Oregon Sugar pods, Yellow Straight-neck squash, green beans, and asparagus. Beautiful day in the garden!!

Today we harvested our Siberian kale and prepared it to can.

We had a good working day in the garden! We moved some lettuce plants that were about to bolt and planted them out of the way to go to seed for next year. We then cleaned out all the old lettuce plants that were about to bolt and gave them to the chickens. We had…