November 2016

Nov. 1: Lemon verbena and rosemary dug for indoor winter survival, but much of herb garden still looking good....a very mild autumn

Nov. 4  Peppers abundant now that they can get more light as tomato vines wither.

 and most beds cleared for next spring.

 Greenhouse in position over cold frame over autumn spinach and lettuce.

 Lettuce growing under greenhouse

Spinach in cold frame, under greenhouse.

  Nov. 16: Greenhouse covered in plastic for winter.

Nov. 17:  Finished Master Gardener Classes today....10 weeks this fall, every Thursday, 9 am - 3:30 pm.  Lots of information.  Lots of work.  Lots of amazingly knowledgeable instructors. 

Nov. 23:  Used the last of the garden's pumpkins for Thanksgiving pies today. 

October 2016

October 2: 16" long Sugarsnax Carrot!  Tastes great!

 October 4: 
Potatoes harvested for Sage Dinner: scrubbed and drying in the Anderson Center kitchen

 Oct. 11
Gorgeous sunflowers--a late summer planting by the campers

 Oct 16:
 Swallowtail caterpillar in my kitchen....came home with the dill!

Oct 18: Garlic planted in bed 9

 Oct. 18:  Thanks to Bill Hopkins, new strawberries planted and top mulched in top fruit bed.

September 2016

September 1, 2016  
Mint, chard, beans, potatoes, and raspberry jelly

Ana Hlavatovich volunteers tending the overgrown mint garden, as the pumpkin and squash vines grow into it.

The chard is beautiful

The yellow beans have produced for weeks.

Late planted potatoes growing in foreground.  In the background are the potatoes planted in spring and not harvested yet.

So many raspberries....Mashing them for jelly.

Straining the crushed raspberries through the jelly bag.

7 jars of raspberry jelly right out of the canner.

September 2, 2016: Apples, bindweed*#!, and nasturtiums

 The apples are few but delicious!

 We thought we had the bindweed all out of the upper fruit bed, ready for strawberry planting.  But I just weeded half the bed again.   The photo shows all the weeds in the other half of the bed.

Nasturtiums are having a very happy fall!

September 7 and 10: Pole Beans!

September 18 and 23:  Good Bugs and Bad!

 Cabbage moths attack the cabbage!

A praying mantis hangs out on the pineapple sage!

August 11, 2016 Campers' Harvest

Campers harvest beans, turnips, tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini

Aug 8: raspberry patch, broccoli, andzucchoni

Little secondary heads of broccoli

Campers loving the raspberries!

Zucchini stems in trouble!  But the zucchini keep coming!

August 7: pumpkins, beans, potatoes

Lemon Verbena and Stevia--growing for Halloween Tea!

Dug about half of the potatoes!

Dug all the grass and bindweed out of the upper fruit patch around the apple and cherry trees.   Grass and  weeds were all tangled through the landscape fabric.  Really hard work to remove it all.    Prepping the ground for  a new strawberry patch.  

Black turtle beans on right.  Pole beans starting to grow up trellis.  Bush beans on left, with chard and corn in background.

Pumpkins and winter squash.  Vines growing fast and long!

Cucumbers and more cucumbers!

July 31: abundant summer growth and blossom end rot'

Yuck! Blossom end rot on some tomatoes!

Potatoes and Tomatoes

Overgrown mint bed.   Need to cut back!
Lush cucumber vines making lots of fruit
Just a few apples this year
Butternut Squash!
Pumpkins!