Bonnie’s Favorite Chew Toy!
Both of our dogs love chewing on any brassica stalks. Weird!
Getting Tomato Plants Ready
Sarah has been doing seed swapping on Facebook recently, so we have many new varieties to try. Tomato seedlings waiting until our last frost date before planting out.
Honey Bees Foraging In The Garden
We overwintered kale that we’re letting go to seed. Honey bees have discovered it on this cloudy, but warm day. Dead Nettle, Johnny Jump-Ups and Chickweed are blooming all over the garden, and a few dandelions too.
2020 Garden Harvest Totals
Every time we harvest fruit or veggies from the garden we record the weight, and at the end of the year we type everything into a spreadsheet. In 2020 we grew 1,215 lbs of food. Below is a list of our top crops and the harvest weight. 2020 summer garden. It sure looks a lot
2020 Fall Gardening Ends
We’ve had light frosts, but tonight will be our first hard freeze. We spent some time in the garden this week harvesting mixed greens, broccoli, cauliflower and sweet potatoes. 80 lbs. of mostly Okinawan sweet potatoes. They are white skinned with purple flesh, and are a bit firmer than Beauregard sweet potatoes (also pictured) Our
Started Seed Swapping On Facebook
We had seed shortages this past Spring due to Covid-19. Local and mail order seed suppliers both had slim inventory. This Fall Sarah joined some seed swapping Facebook groups and has been having good results finding many of the seeds we will need in the Spring. We even found Jerusalem Artichoke (sunchokes) tubers that we
What To Make With All The Zucchini?
Zucchini season is ON! (because how often do you see a funny internet meme about zucchini?) We have an abundance of summer squash from our garden that we’ve been trying to eat and preserve as we harvest them. We like to make a hearty stew, squash burgers and zucchini bread. However, I want to try
Garden Harvest Log
We have a clipboard by the front door. Everything we bring in from the garden is weighed and recorded with the date. At the end of the year I’ll enter it into a spreadsheet so we can see how many pounds of each crop we harvested and our total for the year.
Summer Garden in Full Swing
The summer garden is growing like crazy. Here are some picts of what we’re growing and today’s harvest. There are only 6 huge cloves in this head of elephant garlic. Chinese red noodle beans. Spaghetti squash…not ready yet. Lima beans…still growing. Black beauty eggplant…still needs a while until harvest. Delicata winter squash…not ready yet. Today’s
Zucchini Burgers Recipe
We usually struggle with trying to preserve all of our summer squash. We can’t eat it fast enough as we harvest it from the garden. This is one of our favorite plant based burger recipes, which we’ve modified from The China Study Quick & Easy Cookbook, by Del Sroufe. We usually double this recipe to