8/22/2011 Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes!!!So, here are the tomatoes growing about a month ago, to see them in all their beautiful colors of red, green, yellow and orange, you need to visit the Farm Stand this weekend!! In addition to the tomatoes, we have Acorn Squash and Sweet Dumpling Squash, the few remaining summer squash and of course eggs! We will also be offering some of the bounty of the pepper plants- look for jalapeno's and cubanos at the Farm Stand! For something different, check out the corner- homemade cards, decorative post it note pads and junior legal pads, strawberry jam and lavender bunches dried right from our own garden! Enjoy! 7/20/2011 Green Beans harvest this morning.This morning harvest of 13lbs. of green beans, 2lbs of pole beans, 1 lb of sugar snap peas and one very full fridge. Capped off by a few heads of broccoli and 6 pounds squash to make sure the fridge door will be tricky for a few days. Needless to say there will be green beans in the Farm Stand Friday. "For the curious we plant our beans in 3' by 10' beds one bed produces 15-20 lbs." A snap shot of the garden vegetables as of 6:45pm on July 18, 2011: We are starting with this beautiful cantaloupe- well, we should say musk melon. This is a smaller variety, my niece said she wanted melon, so she better watch out! There are more than 10 of these little babies growing on 4 vines that are getting bigger by the day. This one doubled in size from yesterday! Amazing what sun and water will do! The corn stalks are coming along nicely. Jason counted yesterday, and we should get at least 20 ears of corn- sounds like just enough for the family! We only planted a few rows. It is really wonderful to be able to walk between the plants and see how the corn grows! Do we need to say more about the totally awesome tomatoes or the bountiful broccoli? Don't they look gorgeous?! (Anthony, those exclamation marks are for you!) Finally we end with the peppers. This one, though the picture is deceiving is rather large already, which is good, that way it will have lots of time in the sun to turn red- Jason and I really love red peppers! Great weekend at the farm stand- green beans were piling up after harvest, so a few lucky people are having the best green beans around! See you soon at the farm stand! 7/13/2011 One Basket of Squash MorningThis mornings squash harvest filled the basket. The high heat is putting a hurting on the plants but they are producing squash this size in days! This is one of our favorite recipes for courgettes. Ingredients
Via:BBCGOODFODD Wow! The corn is coming along! All of the garden is growing nicely, including the weeds. We had to do some serious weed wacking and hand weeding to clean out the garden beds and the rows between. The wonderful thing is, that you can look back after you have completed a row, and see what your hard work has created! A tidy garden that looks spectacular! Tomatoes are growing strong too- little green tomatoes are popping out on almost all of the plants. In no time, we will be selling tomatoes at the farm stand. This weekend, we added sugar snap peas, zucchini and yellow squash, and some of our dried lavender. Enjoy the weekend! 6/23/2011 Rain, rain and more rain...Broccoli! Can't wait for the harvest to come in! Hopefully we will be able to get out to the garden this weekend, without our slickers, that is! The rain has been quite incredible! We are really looking for the sun this weekend. More pictures to come... everything growing wonderfully with all this rain! |
Teresa Fuller
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