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A Little Money Out for Gardening

July 19th, 2012 at 05:15 am

Since the heat wave was pretty hard on my lettuces and they are close to bolting and starting to taste a tiny bit bitter, I picked up some new lettuce starts from the food co-op. I spent $3 for 8 organic lettuce starts. They are really pretty. Instead of going with a red and a green this time I went with a green with red spots. Pretty, isn't it?



We've spent some time clearing some space for a late fall/winter garden. It will mostly be brassicas like cabbage, broccoli, and kale, but we also will be putting in garlic and onion sets in the fall. In doing so we pulled up some potato volunteers:



And we finally had some green beans ready for picking today. It was a massive crop:



But they were really getting too big to leave on the vine. I will probably just eat them raw.

And we found where Queen has been hiding her eggs. We gave them the sink/float test to make sure they were all okay. They are. I think she is broody.



Now that we've found her nest she won't lay there again. She'll find a new place. She's not going to be very happy when she finds them gone, but it's not like she can hatch them anyway. We have no rooster.

We got our last tomato plant and our pepper plant transplanted the other night and they seem to be thriving in their new locations. There are three fruits on the pepper plant and they are starting to size up and about ten fruits on the tomato plant. The squash and zucchini plants are thriving and flowering like crazy now. Two blossoms were open today and they were almost as big as my hands.

I'm going to poke some more green bean seeds into the soil and hope for the best. If we have a mild enough fall they'll grow and if not, it's only about 25 cents worth of seeds.

I still want to pick up more kohlrabi starts. They will go well into fall and it is one of my favorite low carb veggies for raw eating. I am starting to see some kohlrabi at the farm stand but it is so tiny. I think they are selling them more for the greens than the vegetable. The greens are okay, but I really like the vegetable part of it. They will size up in another couple weeks. I just hate waiting once I see it available.

I picked 3 pints of raspberries today and a pint of blueberries and a handful of blackberries. There will be a lot of blackberries in two days or so. I could have picked more blueberries today, but I was really tired. I think there is at least another pint ripe.

2 Responses to “A Little Money Out for Gardening”

  1. rob62521 Says:
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    What a great garden you have. Had to chuckle over the 3 green beans! DH has gotten a few tomatoes, and he waters heavily, but with our drought, the plants have been losing their blossoms. Looks like you have some great eating ahead.

  2. My English Castle Says:
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    I admire your garden, so much, Robin. That lettuce is lovely.

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