Summer Harvest

Looks like it's Cucumber and Tomato for lunch, Squash and Beans for dinner.

 

 

Cucumber Eater

 

Green Bean Harvest

Picked the rest of the green beans and then we did get rain, 2.5" thus far.  

Green Bean Harvest 

Blue Lake Superior 5" Bean

17 x 1 lb vacuum bags for the freezer

It took one whole day to clean them.  I cleaned and David packaged them.  

We froze most of them, but kept the small haricot vert to eat now, and they taste great.

 We are expecting a small second picking after this rain.  

 Meanwhile, the Frittillarias love the coneflower.  

 

 

 

Got Green Beans

Spent the day and picked half the green beans 

ahead of (hopefully) incoming rain. 

Blue Lake Superior

June Garden

 

Rain has been very good for us this June:  2.25" on the 9th, 3.20" on the 18th, 2.5" on the 22nd and then 3.7" on the 27th.  Being up on this hill, we did not have to worry about flooding.  From left to right:  Beans (Pinto, Green and Lima) in bloom, Squash and Cucumbers in bloom, Okra coming along, 10 rows of peppers!!!!!!!!!! 4 rows of tomatoes with many a green tomato already and finally a recently weeded Herb garden in the middle front, and Asparagus Horseradish bed in the back right.  

 

Peace Out says the Dirt Farmer

 

Pepper Planting

 

I planted the peppers in the concrete of our dry soil. Two rows each of Poblano and Anaheim and four rows of Bell Peppers.  Should be enough peppers. 

 We also planted all our summer garden seeds:  Green bean, pinto bean, lima bean, squash, cucumber, okra, and sunflowers.  

 Fortunately, it started to rain the next day, and the forecast is for 7 days of rain.  

I am so relieved to be getting this rain after all that work.  

 

 

 

Tomatoes Planted

Tomato seedlings were getting big and had to go in the ground.  Unfortunately the rain chance dried up, so that is all we put in.  The peppers are easier to water in the greenhouse compared to the garden.  

 

                             David makes the perfect rows, and I sit and plant each seedling.  

 

Planting in four "perfect" rows

      David comes back in and gives them a drink from water collected off the barn roof.

 

Watering the Seedlings

      

 

 Supervisor Ms White

 

May Day Update

Tomato, Pepper and Basil Seedlings

  

Celebrity and Super 100 Tomato

Poblano, Anaheim and Bell Peppers

Genovese Basil

The only thing to write home about in the Spring garden is Spinach!  I don't usually have much luck with Spinach direct sowing.  I think I will start spinach in pots from now on instead of direct sow.   The bok choy and the peas look terrible having not survived our spring drought.  We finally got 2.35 inches April 27 & 28.  

 

Spinach rows 

Spinach for Dinner!!!