Thursday, Oct1st Harvest:
Carrots, Bittermelon, one of the first White Guavas of the season and a mini Kabocha Pumpkin.
Oct 2nd Harvest:
8 pounds of Carrots! (not pictured some more Guava)
Friday, October 2, 2009
Garden Updates
Today, we harvested the rest of the Carrots, (8 lbs!) We tilled in some compost and I sowed some hairy vetch as green manure for the Cabbage, Nappa(Hakusai) Cabbage and Kale that will be growing there next. Half of another bed is in preparation for a bed of Celery. The bed that grew Tomatoes was planted today with Shelling Peas(British Wonder). Hopefully the weather will keep cooler from now on, or the peas won't like it much! Here's some pix of the garden lately.
my Mom harvesting Sweet Basil
Most of the Garlic have woken up and are growing strong, the lettuce is coming along too, time for thinning.
Baby Zucchinis growing
Another try at Armenian Cucumbers. Hopefully this batch will be healthy and productive. It's a gamble whether the weather will not get too cold for these heat loving plants.
Green Tomato Salsa
This is what 20 cups of chopped green tomatoes look like!
Time for a bath!
Fin! Cooling down... chillin'
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Harvest Updates
Peppers, Watermelon and Redleaf lettuce
Pumpkin, lotsa Zucchinis and a dinky watermelon
Monday, September 28, 2009
August 2009 Harvest Tally
Sorry this is so belated. Life has been hectic for me and tallying up these numbers do take a good chunk of time.
Tomatoes 20.81 lbs
Figs 18.47 lbs
Carrots 06.13 lbs
Tangerines 05.50 oz
Zucchini 05.31 lbs
Komatsuna 04.94 lbs
Watermelon 04.63 lbs
Bulb onion 04.25 oz
Petit Gris Musk Mel 03.00 lbs
Broccoli Greens 02.88 lbs
Beans(green+purple) 02.29 lbs
Bittermelon 01.85 lbs
Green Tomatoes 01.81 lbs
Japanese Cucumber 01.72 lbs
Eggplant 01.11 lbs
Kale 10.00 oz
Stevia 04.50 oz
Peppers 03.50 oz
Basil(sweet&purple) 01.80 lbs
Blackberries 01.50 oz
Myoga 01.00 oz
Strawberries 01.00 oz
Gifts:
Peaches 15.50 lbs
Foraged:
Limes 06.50 oz
Pounds tallied: 98.20 lbs
Ounces tallied: 36.30 oz =2.68 lbs
Total: 100.88 lbs
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
"Fall" Garden Updates
Peppers finally flourishing after the Pepper Weevil attack.
Red spider mites devastating our tomato crops. The leaves are turning gray because the mites suck out all the chlorophyll. We decided to yank all the tomatoes out even though most of them are green. Time for more green tomato salsa.
White Guavas starting to turn color
Navel Oranges growing big
Late season corn, about 4' tall, very short, but bearing fruit
Sunchokes blossoming.
Dwarf Cavendish Banana that was transplanted from the other house earlier this year is thriving in it's new location. Wanna know the secret? We buried chicken bones by it. Bones contain high levels of Potassium, which the Bananas love. Check out the first photo of the Dwarf Cavendish when we first transplanted it to see the difference!
White Hibiscus type flowers in full bloom
small jack-o-lantern pumpkin turning color.
This bed has some sleeping garlic bulbs, and a line of Romaine Lettuce.
Gerbera Daisies enjoying the sun.
Home grown/home made foods
Homegrown eggplant, carrots and peppers in this Coconut Chicken Curry
Homegrown carrots & zucchini in this tofu stir-fry
Home grown peppers, tomoatoes and zucchini in this fajita meal
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Garden Updates
Here's some Corn, Beans and Kabocha pumpkins growing in the former pond area.
Tomatoes and Peppers...all being attached by Flea Beetles and Red Mites. ugh....
Very tiny Jack-0-Lantern Pumpkin
First Tomato/Egglant bed almost clear. We are thinking of planting Garlic and Carrots here next.
One of many harvests
Bug Action
I couldn't believe it when I found this Praying Mantis enjoying a wasp for it's meal! It's bug eat bug world around here!
Ladybird beetle laying it's next generation.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Garden Updates
We just cleared the Watermelons, Musk Melons and Cucumbers off of this bed, with the exception of the Cucumber plant on the far upper left corner. It's a Japanese Cuke. We're saving that one for seed. This bed got an ammendment of compost and a spraying of glacial rockdust milk. We've seeded it with bulb onions for next year. I spaced the seeds pretty close, about 4 inches apart. Pretty tight, according to the package you are supposed to leave 16" gap between the rows. I ignored that part and made it 4" apart on the rows too.
This area had Cabbages and Kale growing during the winter/spring months. We added lots of raw compost and now we're growing our second batch of Curcurbits: Zuccini, Large Jack-o-lantern pumpkins, Bitter Melon, Watermelon and more Japnese Cucumbers.
Close up on the bitter melons
Morning Glories
White Hibiscus
Orange Gerberas
Basil and Gerbera in our Herb Garden
Friday, August 14, 2009
Updates
Homegrown fruit basket (mostly tomatoes...) and the pears are in the fridge & the figs are in the freezer, so there's actually more fruit than this!
tomatoes and strawberries cloning in water
drying basil for the winter months
first decent harvest of carrots
Homemade & Homegrown foods
Fajitas made with homegrown tomatoes & onions, the peppers were from the Farmer's Market since the Pepper weevils devastated our crop
Salsa with homegrown tomatoes, onions and cilantro
Homegrown potatoes, onions, tomatoes(some from friend), and homegrown onions. Peppers were bought.
Canned peaches(gift from a friend's backyard) and our Asian Pears
Sunday, August 2, 2009
July Harvest Tally
July 2009 Harvest Tally
Asian Pear 20.30 lbs
Eggplant 08.38 lbs
Figs 08.25 lbs
Japanese Cucumber 07.64 lbs
Tomatoes 05.86 lbs
Orange 05.31 lbs
Watermelon 04.88 lbs
Beans(green+purple) 02.25 lbs
Kale 01.86 lbs
Baby Carrots w/grns 01.75 lbs
Jackbelittle pumpkins 01.50 lbs
Bulb onion 01.13lbs
Petit Gris Musk Mel 22.40 oz
Broccoli 19.80 oz
Strawberries 16.10 oz
Bittermelon 15.00 oz
Kyohou Grapes 11.25 oz
Basil(sweet&purple) 07.00 oz
Peppers 04.50 oz
Stevia 03.50 oz
Pounds tallied: 69.11 lbs
Ounces tallied: 99.55 oz =6.22 lbs
Total: 75.33 lbs
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