Week 8

This week we are blessed with an abundance. Green beans/yellow wax beans, kale, carrots, Swiss chard, beets, zucchini, basil, raspberries/blueberries/cherry-pear tomatoes, cucumber, tomatoes, yellow summer squash, romaine lettuce, savory cabbage, jalapeño, and some received tomatillos (not pictured, they have a husk on them, peal it off and you will find a green round fruit. It makes great green verde sauce. . Enjoy! We are truly blessed.

Blanching

Eli is helping to carry the bitter lettuce to the chickens. Such a good little helper he is! 

Week 7

This week we have red or savory cabbage, romaine head lettuce, zucchini or yellow squash, tomato, green and yellow beans, fennel, dill, snap peas, cucumber, basil, and some received raspberries or blueberries, also as an after thought I threw in some chocolate mint for a few. Enjoy!!

I ask all to be praying for rain, it seems that no amount of water can make lettuce sprout and not turn bitter. We lost 2 unused beds of lettuce this week and 2 that were going to have a second picking. This means the next 3-4 weeks we will not have mixed greens. 

Week 6

God is so good to provide 1/2 inch of rain this morning. Evan and I went out before the rain and picked  this weeks bountiful harvest. We have cucumbers, basil, jalapeño (only some got them), fennel, mixed greens, dill, green beans, kale, Swiss chard, savory cabbage, snow peas, and some received baby zucchini/summer squash (not pictured).

Long week

We spent 4th of July weeding the field of potatoes.

Buckets and buckets of weeds later we finally can see the end.

An overview of the potato patch. These are really skinny plants and need some rain to help them produce yummy potatoes.

Next we put done some dry green oats as a mulch for a weed barrier and moisture holder. 

Oh the battle has begun...BUGS...pictured here is a young, maybe even teenage potato beetle. They are very destructive and can eat an entire plant bare in a couple days. I have been checking morning and night for them and picking off and destroying any that I find.

I am also using the green oats as mulch in other areas of the garden.

Here I've applied it to a third planting of sweet corn. I am always amazed at how things grow when mulch is applied to help keep moisture in and when things are weed free.

Fall planting

Planting fall cauliflower and eli is determined to help water:)

I just love this picture! He is really studying how I plant the seedlings. 

Week 5

This week we have dill (feathery green stuff in plastic container), kale, snow peas (podded peas that you can eat pods and all), strawberries, fennel (feathery green stuff attached to a white bulb, it has an anise type flavor), mixed greens, some but not all boxes contained any combination of cucumbers, broccoli, and/or radish. Enjoy!