Showing posts with label beans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beans. Show all posts

Sunday, August 25, 2013

hello again

There has been precious little time for gardening, let alone blogging about gardening. As you can imagine, what was the best garden I had ever grown, turned into the biggest weedy mess you've ever seen around this time.

Tomatoes are coming in nicely. One batch of garden tomato sauce is frozen, a couple batches of diced tomatoes, one batch of crock pot marinara (8 cups of that).



 

Ground hogs have been an ongoing problem attacking carrots, beans, parsnips and wow - how they love collards and Brussels.

The onion crop came in, as did the garlic. Fantastic yield with the garlic though I harvested late and the leaves had started to separate from the bulbs. I let a couple go to flower and it didn't make a huge difference in head size.


 


 

I'm still harvesting beets, and about to plant more.

Same with carrots. Here's what I got after not thinning and not weeding (much). I'm not sure about "atomic red", but "purple haze" sure met expectations!



 

Despite slugs, pole beans made it up the poles, but I can't reach the beans to harvest them.

I harvested the potatoes. Beautiful colors, but small yield. No surprise considering I did the opposite of tending them.

I really can't wait for the sweet potato harvest, the vines are everywhere, but it hasn't been hot so I really don't know what we will find under ground.