yard long beans

I grew a mix of pole beans this year. Haven't really eaten any, but they are always beautiful on the garden fence. 

 

okra

8 plants this year. About right for us. I barely have enough to do anything, but I can make an excellent succotash when the corn and tomatoes are coming in, and that's about all I'm after. 

They take up about 1.5 feet x 4 feet of garden space. 
 

edible podded radish

Experimental this year, and quite good! The seed pod is lighter than the root - in flavor, in density... It's juicier, but still very "radish".

 

sunflowers

Every year I have tried to grow branching sunflowers on either end of the garden sink. This year I succeeded -  with two on one side.

 
 

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.