This is our early corn. We just picked and enjoyed these few ears earlier today. The silver-queen corn still has another couple of weeks before it is ready.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
These are a variety of tomatoes that were just picked this morning.
We sliced that cherokee purple one on the right this morning, and added just a touch of salt......DELICIOUS!! The breakfast of Champions! :-)
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Our first real pickin'. Just picked tonight ;-)
Monday, June 11, 2012
Our peppers are officially planted!
Some of the plants were a bit leggy so to start out with, Papa had to remove the leaves
from the bottom 2/3 of the plants. He also removed all of the small peppers that had
formed on the plants prior to planting them in the garden. Once that was done the plants were ready to go and he was able to plant these peppers deeper into the holes.
He dug the holes with a post hole digger and then used 2/3 of the dirt mixed
with Black Kow composted cow manure, lime, and Epsom salt.
Once that was done he then refilled the holes partially and put in 3 peppers per hole, filled the remaining space of the hole.
There were 128 pepper plants planted total. And our pepper varieties include: California Wonder, Green, Yellow and Red Bell Peppers, Anaheim Peppers, Cayenne Peppers, Jalapeno Peppers
andYellow Banana Peppers
Saturday, June 9, 2012
We just got these brown turkey figs trees to add to our orchard. They're only about two and a half feet tall and should take about a year or so before they really start growing and putting on fruit. One of them actually has a small fig on it.
See?
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Here is an inside glimpse of part of what goes into the ground work for our garden. One of the things that we do is that we mulch our walkways, and in-between the rows of the garden. Here are some pics of our latest load that we just got today.
Papa takes it out and shovels it into his wheel barrel.
And then one batch at a time
He layers into the rows where he has already placed down cardboard.
The significance of all of this, is that for our garden our size (5,000 sq. ft plus) it takes loads and loads of mulch just to cover all of the rows, borders, and each of the walkways.
Here's a picture of last year's mulch...
Monday, June 4, 2012
This weekend Papa spent some time putting in our tomato cages:
And then on the right we've got marmandes, german johnson, and a few cherokee tomato plants.
These babies have already got some fruit on 'em!
The romas on the other hand were just recently planted.
And then we've got fresh herbs planted between each of the larger tomato plants. No rhyme or
reason, just chose to plant them there.
Here we have our sweet basil:
Second sweet basil plant
Greek columnar basil
Stevia
Pineapple sage
Parsley
Our thyme
Greek oregano
Our dill
Cilantro
and culantro
