Category: Our Garden
Sowing Oats
It has been a crazy busy and stressful week/weekend/week so far. Too much going on. Quick update, the house garden is completely taken out except for the tomatoes. One clearing the beds we found we had an issue with tree roots. There’s a large old maple in the yard, and apparently, when we extended the… Continue reading Sowing Oats
I been picking beans
Busy day in the garden today. Still having issues with blossom end rot on the tomatoes, and then, with all the rain we’ve gotten for the last two days a bunch of them are starting to split. Pigs made out like bandits. Still several quarts worth saving. Ellie washed them and we cored them to… Continue reading I been picking beans
The Man Trip
Busy day, yesterday. Daddy, Seppi and Papa hooked up the trailer to Papa's big truck and drove south to Adna. We bought some straw bales from the same lady we bought them from last year. Don't go without Seppi! Of course, nothing ever goes quite smoothly. The jack on the trailer was broken so we… Continue reading The Man Trip
Onions as big as your head
It has turned cool and rainy this week. Time to get the onions out of the ground so they can dry out. Mommy and Seppi and Ellie pulled them and put them on shelves in the shop. Good harvest this year, most of them a pretty large size. We should get a greenhouse so we… Continue reading Onions as big as your head
Tomatoes galore
We sent the kids out to pick tomatoes yesterday. I guess you could call this mission success. And ten minutes later… “Daddy, let me in, I picked some more!” Oh, and a bunch of grapes that they were Not supposed to pick, but somehow it got picked anyway. So… Anyone want some snacking tomatoes?
Tomato update.
A beautiful heirloom marriage, without a trace of blossom end rot. Four days after treating the tomatoes for blossom, end rot with the lime, the “end rot“ spray that we ordered from Amazon finally arrived. By that time we were already starting to see a bunch of well formed sauce tomatoes without end rot, although… Continue reading Tomato update.
Beans, beans, beans
And peppers. Oh yeah, the bean leaves stick to you. Endless source of amusement. Yes, there is a grumpy face. Believe it or not not everyone is always excited about harvesting beans. Winnie is excited about it, though Taste test! All of these peas are for the Winnie! Uncle Adam kept all the peas at… Continue reading Beans, beans, beans
Trying to Salvage the Tomatoes
Video post, in which I talk about what is going wrong with our tomatoes, what we are trying to do to fix it, and what we plan on doing differently next year. https://youtu.be/C_yCOsCbIBA
