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The temperatures have dropped and we are finally getting some rain! Almost feels like fall around here! The cooler temperatures and added moisture woke up our Shiitake logs. We had a nice Shiitake bloom. We also harvested our first watermelon of the season!
The garden is still producing pretty well for this time of year. It hasn’t rained in over a month and we are experiencing record high temperatures. We are still harvesting peppers and okra and we picked our first harvest of butter beans of the season!
We have an abundance of okra right now so we are preparing it to freeze in different ways. We like some of our okra unbreaded to use in soups and gumbos but we also like to freeze some of the okra breaded and ready to fry. This video shows how we bread our okra and…
Our peppers have really started to produce well! We are harvesting a lot of okra and peppers lately. Our hot steamy weather is really good for okra and pepper production!
Today we harvested our first batch of Silver Queen sweet corn. We have pulled some of the Roma tomatoes and planted more bush green beans. We have some fall plants started in flats. Garden is still producing fairly well!!
Our squash quit producing almost entirely and our green beans have slowed down dramatically. It’s time to pull out old crops and plant some new ones! We planted more pink eye purple hull peas, some bush butter beans, and some more bush green beans.
Just a description of what we harvested in the garden today!
This harvest video shows a week’s worth of green beans and cucumbers. The last of the Candy Onions we harvested from the raised bed have dried and are ready for a weigh in. The rest of the harvest table is from July 3rd. The peppers are starting to show out!
We harvested the last bed of Candy onions we had planted. These are the onions that were in the raised bed.
We harvested more candy onions, squash, and our peaches! We planted some watermelon in the area where we just pulled the onions.
Today we are showing some of our early spring harvests getting ready and making space for our summer garden crops. We harvested the last of our Red Russian Kale and weighed in our first harvest of Candy Onions. Our garlic dried enough to do a weigh-in. We are also starting to harvest our blackberries and…
This is our garlic harvest for 2019. We left the garlic in the ground until all the foliage was dead this year instead of digging it as soon as the foliage started to bend over. We had a pretty nice garlic harvest!
We harvested our squash for the first time this year! It’s easy to forget from year to year just how good fresh squash is! We also found and killed a squash vine borer.
We didn’t intend to plant potatoes this year but we found a box of seed potatoes we had saved from last year’s harvest. Instead of throwing them away we just scattered these seed potatoes on the ground and covered them with hay. This is the resulting harvest.
Our garden is finally starting to kick in and show some growth. Everything is starting out a little slowly because it has been such a rainy wet spring. This is an overview of how everything is growing!
The no till deep mulch method attracts millions of earthworms and eliminates the need for synthetic fertilizers. It’s great for soil building and soil aeration too!
We have been able to get out in the garden and do a lot of weeding and cleaning up. It’s starting to look more like a nice summer garden!
This is an update of our garden before we started cleaning it up for spring. We were letting a lot of things flower and go to seed to attract pollinators. This video is also an update of our ornamental plants in the front yard and our fruit trees in the back.
Spring is finally here and we have a long chore list that keeps getting longer! The weather is finally beautiful and we are able to get some things done around the place. Today we need to do a long overdue quail harvest and get the incubator going.
Our asparagus is growing really well this year! This is an asparagus harvest video as well as a short garden update. We had some severe weather in the area this week and I included some video sharing what our tornado sirens sound like at the end of this video.
This is an overview of everything we have growing in the garden right now. We also show some blooming plants from other areas of the yard.
It was beautiful and warm this weekend so we were able to get out into the garden. We planted our Candy onions and some Red Lasoda potatoes.
We have been tagged by Butterfliez Home & Garden for the 2018 Garden Roundup Challenge! https://youtu.be/RRMYklwy3b4 Questions: 1. What was your best crop of 2018? 2. What was your worst crop of 2018? 3. What was your biggest challenge of 2018? 4. What things will you do differently in 2019? 5. What are your plans…
It is a wet soggy mess here, lol!! This is the second wettest year on record. Daily chores are a lot more difficult when slogging through mud. Our lettuce is starting to look good and some of our direct sow greens are starting to sprout. Our seedlings we have started in flats are starting to…
Not a lot going on in the garden. It has rained almost constantly for the past three weeks. Maybe a dry day here and there but almost no sun. We’re getting seeds started to replant some fall and winter crops.
We found Shiitake growing on our logs we inoculated about three years ago! Pretty cool surprise!
We’ve started planting our fall crops. We planted Danver’s Half Long carrots, Georgia collards, Siberian kale, Lolla Rossa lettuce, Red Romaine lettuce, Tendergreen Mustards, Black Seeded Simpson lettuce, and Bloomsdale Longstanding spinach.
The huge watermelon that we have been watching for a while is finally ripe!
Some people have commented on how relatively weed free our garden is. We go into a brief description of how we keep the weeds down in the garden in this video.
We had a really nice harvest of peppers, okra, butter beans, and green beans today!
