We thought we did well with bell peppers last year, but we ran out quickly. We usually dice and freeze them at the end of the season. Well, this year we have vowed to plant more and try to grow enough to last the year. We have over 3 dozen pepper plants growing in the […]
We bought 12 Elderberry cuttings from riverhillsharvest.com. We purchased 4 cuttings each of Ranch, Bob Gordon, and Wyldewood1 cultivars. You can learn more about elderberry from Doug and Stacy on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTntso3V0A Elderberry cuttings are in water, but will go in the ground as soon as we are in no danger of frost. I had to
We finally have asparagus stalks coming up (about 10 stalks so far). This is only their second year and it’s recommended to harvest lightly this year. We planted one bed each of red and green asparagus, but I forgot which cultivars we planted at the moment. Red Asparagus
We have tried growing bell peppers from seed for a couple years and we can never get them to consistently germinate because it is too cold. We would end up buying seedlings, which can be pretty expensive compared to the cost of seeds. This year we are trying out a 10 x 20.75 inch seedling
Our gardening is pretty much done for this year, but surprisingly there are still broccoli, cabbage, kale, spinach, cauliflower and lots of cilantro still slowly growing. In March of this year we started weighing our garden harvests and keeping a simple log that includes the date, fruit/vegetable, and weight of everything we harvested. We currently
We got our first harvest of broccoli from our fall garden. We’ve never grown it before, and are completely impressed. It’s so much sweeter than store-bought – as is true with most everything we grow ourselves. We have lots more coming, along with three different types of cabbage and some cauliflower. The garden looks a
In October of 2016, we bought a 3-pound bag of garlic from Sam’s Club. We broke the heads apart and planted about 2 pounds of cloves into a raised bed in rows about 10″ apart. We harvested the garlic once the bottom 2 or 3 leaves started to yellow and die. We got an amazing
Last year we bought 3 Okinawan Sweet Potato slips for way too much money. We managed to remember not to eat them all so we could grow more slips. This variety of sweet potato is white on the outside and purple on the inside with a firmer texture than the kind you buy at the
The greenhouse has 3 small raised beds in it. The largest one is planted out with Oregon Spring determinate tomatoes. There are also four pepper plants behind the tomatoes that are full of blossoms. Both the tomatoes and the peppers are loving the heat and humidity in the greenhouse. Ginger and Turmeric haven’t yet come
This is a view from the garden entrance on May 11th. We’ve added 5 new raised beds and a greenhouse for this season. We now have a total of 17 raised beds planted out. The large tomato cages made from cattle panels may look huge now, but we used them last year and the tomatoes