The community garden is officially put away for the season. Well, sort of. We have to clean up everything that needs to be cleaned up, and sign off on it by 11/1, and this being the last weekend before that date, I went ahead and pulled out everything that really needed to be pulled […]
I dehydrated the Korean peppers yesterday – the kitchen smelled lovely. About fourteen peppers gave me a about a pint jar’s worth of dried shards. (Plus a little room for a desiccant pack – we’re paranoid.) We figure we’ll grind on demand. Not bad considering my yield this year wasn’t great. I’ve got basil
The garlic is all cured, and cleaned up. The two varieties I grew were Duganski and German Red – I think the larger heads on the left are the German Red. Can’t wait to see how they taste. Conveniently, my last head of store garlic is just about out.
I have two khuri squash (one is hiding behind the one you can see here). And of course, they’re hanging in thin air where I’m going to have to support them as they get heavier. So much for trying to get a trellis. Everything else in the side garden is chugging along for the moment.
I feel like I’m a little behind in garden updates, but things were just kind of starting for while, and then it got hot. So things are really chugging along at the moment, but I’m not necessarily sticking around to get pictures. It’s more quick weeding, watering, and getting the heck back out of the
Here’s today’s project. The food forest attached to the community garden has two beautiful elder shrubs. I was out at around 8:00 this morning to beat the heat and humidity. I pulled off 18 heads, and you wouldn’t even know I was there. Making a sugar syrup was not my idea of the
I only finally got the plants out to harden off on Wednesday, between our trip, and the ridiculous amount of cold and rain we’ve been getting. Things were definitely starting to get leggy, so I planted out most everything today. The pepper are still inside (I’ll be putting them out for tonight at the
I feel like a garden update is long overdue, but I usually do those when I have new pictures, and I have nothing new pictorially to report. April was really cool, and really wet. May so far has been a bit better, but still on the cool side. So my seedlings are still hanging
I finally got over to the community garden plot on Thursday – it’s been pretty rainy this April, so it took way to long to get some time that corresponded to not being way too damp. It doesn’t look like much right now, but I at least got the winter detritus cleared away.