We’ve planted spinach, kale and two types of broccoli for the Fall. The spinach should be coming up before too much longer since it was planted first.
Category Archives: Gardening
Harvests & Fall
[thumb:442:l] Lately we’ve been harvesting cucumbers and tomatoes. The two tomatoes in the picture are from the Patio Orange tomato plant. We also harvested our first Thai Pink Egg tomato the other day. There are a bunch of tomatoes on the plants — soon we’ll have a bunch to use. [newline] The garden is doing […]
First Tomato
Yesterday Kate noticed that one of the tomatoes on the Patio Orange had ripened. It was hiding behind the others. [thumb:415:l][thumb:419:l][newline] It weighed in at 1.1oz. Not a big tomato but it looks good. Hopefully others will start to ripen. [thumb:416:l][thumb:417:l][newline] The porch garden continues to grow. The Thai Pink Egg tomatoes have set heavily […]
Update
[thumb:403:l][thumb:406:l][newline] [thumb:404:l][thumb:405:l][newline] The garden continues to grow as the temperatures have gone up. The tomatoes have set a bunch of fruit but nothing is ripe yet. The cucumber has also set some fruit which will be fun to see how it develops. Our beans and peas are growing. The chard was attacked again by the […]
More Planting
I took a look at my copy of All New Square Foot Gardening. The author has tables in the back about when different plants should be grown and how long they take. I decided to plant pinto and black beans in the section next to the watermelon. With eight to nine weeks to harvest there […]
Last Few Days
It has been hot and sunny the last few days. It was perfect weather for using the solar ovens. Clear and sunny with long days. We used both ovens. The first thing out of the ovens was chili. When that came out dinner went into the oven. It was a slow-cooker recipe with chicken and […]
