Elephant Garlic Harvest
4 years ago we planted 4 cloves of elephant garlic that my parents gave us. We kept replanting most of each years harvest and this year we had an entire raised bed planted out.
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Okinawan Sweet Potatoes
We purchased Okinawan sweet potato slips in 2016, and have kept them going every year since. We originally bought Okinawan sweet potato slips from Baker Creek Seeds because Sarah read that they were a common staple food in a ‘blue zone’, which are regions where people routinely live longer than the average life expectancy.
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2021 Summer Gardening
Here are some pictures of our summer gardens. We are just starting to harvest many of the tomatoes, peppers and squash. View of the main garden from the top. Picture taken about a month ago. Our 3 Layens horizontal hives down in the little orchard are finally full of honey bees. Sarah did a wonderful
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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.
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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.
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Making More Raised Garden Beds
We had a nice open area where the harbor freight portable garage was, so we made some more raised beds. These garden beds are made from cedar slabs, or first cuts from the chainsaw mill. I’ve been saving the good ones that have significant heart wood for building projects like this. The finished beds. 1/2
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2019 Garden Harvest Top Ten Totals
We weigh all of the fruit and vegetables that we harvest from our garden, with the exception of some herbs that we pick for cooking. This year we grew 1260 lbs. of food, which is over 250 lbs. more than last year. Our biggest crop by far was tomatoes, which we canned the majority of
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Garlic harvest
We planted well over 100 cloves of grocery store garlic last fall (October). In the last couple weeks the bottom few leaves have started to brown and some of the stalks were lying down, which is a sure sign they’re ready to harvest. This represents about 85% of the harvest with the rest still growing
2017 Garden Harvest Summary
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
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Spring 2017 Garden
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
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