corn

Just a note to remind us about corn quantities. 

6 dozen ears = 72 ears = 36 cups = 18 bags = 1/2 c per ear. 

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. 

Bad harvester

This always happens to me. Stuff gets out of hand. Exhibit A: club zucchini. 

But there's also some edible stuff. Wonderful delicate lettuce from a succession planting. 
 

Garlic

It's in - 120 heads, very good size. They got decent sun, decent watering, and not too much weed competition. I fertilized with miracle grow once mid-season. (I know, not organic... But I didn't have a good organic option right then and putting it off, in my world, means not doing it.)

 

Shell peas

Shell peas weren't as productive as sugar snaps (not their fault, they can be at just 2 feet tall) - but they were SOOOO sweet! We ate almost all of them raw in the garden. Ames eating the peas and delighting at feeding the dog the shells. 

 

Sugar snaps

I had a little trouble with blog connectivity from the phone so there are a few back posts to make. 

I must have harvested 4 pounds of sugar snaps this year, and could have had more if I'd been paying closer attention and not letting them get too big. 

 

Tomatoes!

Lets hear it for the variety "Fourth of July" which didn't quite make its deadline but nonetheless beat out the beefsteak that was planted a month earlier.