Garden Update 7-14-2009
We haven’t provided a garden update in a while, so here is a photo tour of our garden from this weekend.
We did a lot of weeding in our garden this weekend again. As you can see they have now built a pavilion with a picnic table under it at our garden. We were a little upset at first because it shades our garden starting around 3PM every day, but it hasn’t been much of an issue, and now Jake can play on it while we are working, notice him in the background of the pic above.
We harvested 17 turnips this weekend along with a boat load of turnip greens. We still have a few left in the garden but not many now.
One of our tomato plants, the sweet tangerine, has 16 tomatoes on it, and hopefully in a few weeks they will be ripe.
Our scarlet runner beans are starting to run up their strings on the contraption we built. We weren’t sure if we’d done it right so were very excited that it seems to be working.
Here’s a better picture of a bean plant running up it’s string.
We have brussel sprouts coming up, we may have planted them too late in the season, but we are hopeful they will still produce some sprouts before the first freeze
One of our cauliflower plants is producing a nice little cauliflower.
We have been harvesting our lettuce now that it is getting warmer and have been trying to have salads with pretty much every meal, as you can see we still have plenty more lettuce to eat.
Our onions are getting bigger, and I thinned out some of them I’d missed, so we had those on some salads a few nights ago.
Our carrots are also looking bigger and I accidentally pulled one up and it had a tiny carrot growing.
Here’s one last pic of the whole garden from another angle.
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July 15th, 2009 at 4:01 am
It looks amazing! I can't wait until we get a house and can have our own little garden. We just ate some delicious turnips tonight from our CSA – they were maple-sage glazed and delish! I recommend that combo if you have any sage growing. We got a sage plant from our CSA so I was trying to find some recipes to use it. We've also got basil coming out the yin yang from our aerogarden – let me know if you have any good recipes usin basil!
July 15th, 2009 at 10:23 am
The garden looks great! I've never seen or heard of a contraption for beans to run up. I would have a lot to learn if I were to start growing vegetables. Someday I hope to grow a few … yeah, someday.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Wow- I'm so impressed! And speaking from first hand experience, the lettuce and turnips are very tasty from your garden
July 18th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Thanks!!! We are really excited about it. Maple-sage glazed turnips sound really good, we are looking for other ways to try them, and have a sage plant so maybe we'll try that.
We have a ton of basil too and usually just make pesto with it and then freeze whatever pesto we don't use in an ice cube try.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Ha, well, this is really our first year to have a real garden too, all we did before this was grow a couple of things out on the back patio like tomatoes in containers.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Thanks Melissa you'll have to come by and see it when you are in town sometime!