A clever weekly state of the garden memo is current on what is scheduled to be grown, what’s been planted and its progress, what is close to prime time and eventually…what will be in short supply.
The dahlias are happy, and the grasshoppers are easily seen. These are both signs that autumn is in the air. We’ve harvested the last of the beans until next summer. We’ll pull the cucumber plants on Monday. Time to start planting the winter cover crop in their place. As you’ve noticed, zucchini production is trending
This week we bring you a cobra bean and a cucumber masquerading as a nautilus! When growing vegetables encounter an obstacle, they simply find their way around it by contorting their shape. As you can tell from the amounts in the walk-in, the squashes and cucumbers are slowly reducing output. We harvest daily (squashes) or
Many of the flowers planted in the garden are to provide food for pollinators. These gaillardia flowers, commonly known as “blanket flowers,” are covered with bees this time of year. I think I detect a slight slowing in zucchini and cucumber production. We’re harvesting the squashes daily to keep them from becoming boats. This means
Tomatoes are here with an explosion of colors. This is my second load on Sunday. As you can see, I commandeered the golf cart, which saved me 3 trips back and forth with the wheelbarrow. Peppers have also come into their own. We will harvest more peppers next week so crank up the pickle-making department.
Peppers beyond Gypsy, Shishito, and Padrons will be ready soon. As you can see, the sweet cayennes are turning yellow, soon followed by red. The first of the lunchbox peppers are also turning color. Tomatoes are picking up. We’re harvesting from all the varieties planted except the largest one, “Wild Boar Pineapple Pig.” Yes, we
This is one of the sunflowers that we planted for Chef Chris. He has culinary plans for them, so we’ll enjoy the flowers until he needs them. The flowers are short, so it’s easy to get great photos. We have summer squashes and cucumbers galore. Sorry to keep flooding your walk-in with them, but ’tis
We’re harvesting squashes every other day; look at half of the harvest for one day! We have squash coming out of our ears and filling your walk-in. We should have them until the end of September. The beans produce at a more moderate pace than the squash. They will also have a long run through
We have made it through a week of 100 degree days with the aid of a lot of water. The only heat casualties seem to be this week’s planting of micro-greens, and some of the winter crops that we had to transplant. We lost about 5% of them. But that is exactly why we always