One more rose, the magic rose, bloomed before the freeze

Below is the garden harvest for Thanksgiving, before the freeze.  The veggies are under a row cover, so we will check them again to see if any survived.  For Thanksgiving I made a radish salad which was good if you add ranch dressing.  We cooked the turnips in butter instead of bacon and that was ok.  Finally, we steamed the bok choy and served with a teriyaki sauce. 

Of course these were the sides for our turkey and my casseroles:  bean tamale and sweet potato gratin.  Jennifer brought her sourdough bread and Grandma's ginger cookies. 

 

 

 

Fall Crops

 Finally got some rain on the Fall Garden.  

We will have radish, turnips, lettuce, and bok choy for our Thanksgiving.  

The turnips were reseeded from last years crop.  

Radish

Turnips

October Roses

Joseph's Dream Coat bud

 

 

Joseph's Dream Coat

 

Joseph's Dream Coat

Joseph's Dream Coat

 

Don Juan bud

Don Juan

Don Juan

Don Juan

Joseph's Dream Coat Old Fashion Climber

 

 

DonJuan and Joseph's Dream Coat Climbers

No Rain

We have not had any rain since Helene.  The fall garden sprouted, and we are watering from the pond but things are not really growing.  I do have this nice border of spotted mint up by the house, which I have watered through the drought.  This goes by many names:  Monarda Punctata, horse mint, spotted mint, spotted bee balm.  I stated these from seeds and I am hoping they spread.  It is native to Eastern US. 

Helene

There is a forecast for much rain from Hurricane Helene stalling over Kentucky.  So we mowed the weed ground cover, tilled, and are planting a fall crop, after all.  The row plantings include:  Turnip, Lettuce, Spinach, Chinese Cabbage and Radish.  It is late, but we will extend the season with row covers, in hope of bok choy for Christmas.

 

 

August Garden

 The drought at Buzzard Roost continued through August and the garden did not produce. 

Harvest includes these small chili peppers we are going to dry and a snack of cherry tomatoes.

We did get 2.5" rain from Hurricane Francine on September 13th.  However the forecast moving forward has no regular rain in the forecast, so I will probably not plant the fall garden this year.  Better luck next year.

July Garden

 July garden during the drought of 2024, kept alive with irrigation. 

Drought at Buzzard Roost

Goggle would not let me upload my photo of a small bowl of tomatoes, but with a major drought here at Buzzard Roost there is just not much garden to show.  I have lost the cucumber and squash, tomato is hanging on under hay but has some kind of bottom rot?  We are irrigating for the first time from our pond to try and keep vegetable alive.  Moab, UT is wetter than we are.  Maybe it will rain tomorrow.  

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June Garden

June garden needs rain (and weeding)

Milkweed needs rain too

 

Pea Harvest

How did you spend your Memorial Day Weekend?  I spent mine shucking peas. The weather was perfect on Saturday, and I did our second picking.  The first picking was last week, and they were good!  This is our best pea harvest ever. 

Pea Row on the Left next to Tomato Crop

Green Arrow Pea

My method of creating the pea row worked great.  The old tomato stalks provided a type of fence keeping the vines up off the ground and the hay provided shade keeping them cool.  When I folded the vines back, they were full of peas.

Method of growing peas up on old tomato stalks and hay.

Second Picking

Big Pea Harvest

Shucking the First Picking

Third Picking on May29  (~1 quart)

Wild Phlox

We planted all the summer garden seeds today which is not much of a photo till they sprout.  So I will show off my Tall Phlox. I  gathered the seeds from the roadside and planted them in the yard.  They have spread all around now.  Aphids ate some this year, but the ladybug came to the rescue.  

Phlox along Walk

Phlox with Purple Iris and Pink Peony

Plant Your Tomatoes on Derby Day

 

We planted most the summer seedlings on the Sunday after Derby (May 7th).   We do not usually put them out this early out here at Buzzard Roost (havin' been bitten by a frost after Derby more than once)  however, the long term forecast called for much rain and no frost, so we put them in.  We ended up with 3 rows of Celebrity Hybrid, our canning tomato, and 1 row of Old Heirlooms we had around.  We also have 3 rows of Anaheim chili peppers, 3 rows of Poblano chili and 2 rows of the California Wonder bell peppers.  We have another flat of bell peppers, but they are still small, and half the garden is full!

 

Garden on May Day

Peas are blooming after and inch of rain!!!

Garden tilled and ready to plant

 

 

Seedlings in the Greenhouse

Seedlings of tomato, pepper and basil are coming along like gangbusters.  In addition to their green roof, they are sitting on top of new heating pads keeping them at temperature through the cool spring nights.  My peppers have never looked so happy so early! 

Peas on Earth

 

Planted Green Arrow Peas on February 21st.

Covered the pea row through the cold snap, and let the henbit grow for the bees.

We had good rain and the peas came up pretty good

They are looking good April 6th

Got a row of Turnip flowers

Year of the Daffodil