Weekly Update: June Week 4

Things continue to grow like crazy... We've been short on sunny days which would probably help things out even more... but even so the tomatoes are packed with fruit and the eggplants are loaded with blooms. After a relatively slow start the cucumbers too seem to be rallying... of course they tend to like the wet weather.I had to spend part of the weekend attempting to tie up some of the tomato plants that have really just gone hog wild. The cherry...

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New This Week: June Week 4

It's all about the beans! This week marked the first harvest of beans from the garden. Altogether I managed to harvest just over a pound of beans from the bush beans. This was just from the first planting which was about 5 square feet of beans. As you can see from the photo, a pound of beans is actually quite a few! We took a few over to Jo last night. We ate some of them fresh from the garden and I put the rest of them in with some summer squash...

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Weekly Update: June Week 3

Now for an official week 3 update. Much has gone on this past week despite the crazy rain! I'm just going to post a few notes and snapshots to summarize the high points. We're two weeks out from the Fourth of July and it looks like a real possibility we'll have actual home-grown tomatoes for the 4th! Let's just hope for at least a couple days of sunshine to ripen them up!And in no particular order:File under AMAZING and bizarre... This week amid...

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Weekly Update

I'm not sure this counts as an official update... but I did want to post a few snaps of the not-as-edible sights around the garden as well lest you think there's nothing but wall-to-wall veggies around here these days!(Left to right)My beautiful pink hydrangea... I've been trying to grow one for 3 years and have never been able to get one to bloom. This is a new plant this year and it seems to be quite happy!Really neat white and purple lilly.A mystery...

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New This Week: June Week 2

So the post are a bit out of order... but I couldn't miss this! The peas continue to grow like um... peas. They're absolutley rediculously tall... and thanks to the relatively mild weather they're still blooming like crazy. I wanted to get up a few snapshots of our first two big harvests. We probably could have saved up and had a couple of more large batches already, but somehow the fact that we have to walk right past them every time we go in or...

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New This Week: June Week 3

I've been traveling again, so running a bit behind!This past weekend was the final leaf lettuce harvest and the harvest of the most delicious turnips ever. A few highlights:The largest of the bunch, just bigger than a baseball.The entire batch after the tops were trimmed. Pretty impressive considering we had 18 pretty good sized turnips from just 2 square feet!A HUGE bowl of turnip greens just waiting to be cooked up!We cooked a big batch up on Saturday...

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New This Week: June Week 1

So running a BIT late with the weekly update.... but decided I'd go ahead and post an update. Each week I'm planning to do just a short post about what's new from the previous week. This week... the new arrival is PEAS!!! Yum...There have been blooms for a week or so and last week the first of this summer's sugar snap peas appeared!They seem to be pretty happy! They've outgrown their original supports which were about 5 feet tall. I've added another...

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Weekly Update: June Week 1 - Back In Action!

So my best intentions of providing week by week updates on the garden progress have OBVIOUSLY been derailed by 12 weeks of intensive traveling for work, finishing my MBA, and doing a freelance costume design... I know... excuses, excuses!I am actually going to try and get back into the swing of things and dedicate Monday nights (nothing on TV) to updating the blog... So for now... I'll just post a quick update and a bunch of photos to catch...

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