Category Archives: garden

Onions out my ears!

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Today was a working in the yard kind of day.
It had rained all night,
then the sun dawned fresh and crisp
and cool.


I harvest the garlic that I had planted in November, they are a little small, next time I will put them in a place where they can stay longer. I need their planter box for other things.


I thinned the carrots that needed thinning.
They are little bitty things, but the kids will have fun eating them.

Then turnips of coarse, I planted a lot of those this season.
I am going to give turnip greens another try tomorrow.
Wish me luck.

Then I thinned out my onion bed and I got 1.5 pounds of green onions!
I don’t cook much with green onions,
however next week, we are going to be eating a lot of these little babies.

I planted some cabbages and broccoli

trying to stagger the harvest
and got inside just before this happened


I love early summer rain!

June

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I think June is my favorite time in the garden (ask me in July and I will probably tell you that is my favorite month in the garden! I love my garden). I love the newness of everything, the roses start blooming and the vegetable garden is just starting to show its potential.

Come take a walk with me.


The yellow roses are a particular favorite of mine
Dadzoo bought this bush for me when we bought this house.

favortie spring chore

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When spring time finally rolls around I just love getting out my seed box.
It is usually a huge mess with old, empty seed packages.

I spread them all out on the table so I can get a good idea of what I have.

Then I plan my garden for the year, and make a list of all the veggies and flowers I am going to need seeds for.

Whatever I don’t already have I order.
I usually try something new each year, it is exciting.
(I know dull life!)

Once the order is placed I can hardly wait to get my package in the mail.

Thursday my seeds came, and on that very day my oldest and I planted a few squares of lettuce, spinach and cabbage. In two more weeks we will do some more of the same, along with some potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips and some others. and in 6 weeks all the tender, summer veggies will go out.

What is planted (or will be) in your gardens this year?

My new favorite veggie.

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I wanted to do a post for everyday of this month, well, I have had sick kids over the weekend, so I am a little behind…hope you don’t mind if I do more than one post in the next few days.

In all the years I have planted a garden I have never grown broccoli. I figured why go to all the work and use all the space for a plant that will be harvested once, and will barely feel my family in that one harvesting

Well, I am a Ding Dong

This spring I got this book and started to read it. It is my all time favorite, this is where I get a lot of my homesteading ideas…

Purchase this book.

and I saw this little blurb in the margin one day.

That is why I am a Ding Dong. I just assumed that you could only get one harvest out of a broccoli plant, I didn’t think to actually research it!

So I decided this year I was going to plant broccoli, and I am so glad I did!

I have have numerous harvest from my six plants, and I plan on planting more next year so I can freeze some for the winter.


This is the basket I picked on Thursday of last week, I can’t believe it is the end of November, and the night temperatures are in the 30’s and I am still harvesting!

(see those pretty yellow flowers, that is a stalk of broccoli that got away from me and bloomed, isn’t it pretty!)

While I was out there I snagged the eggs that my chickens had laid that day. I find so much satisfaction in providing my own food.

Garlic

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Yesterday afternoon was cool and cloudy
a perfect day for planting
Garlic

Dadzoo made this nice little planter box for me a couple of weeks ago, and I filled it with a mix of peat moss and some home grown compost.

Last spring I planted chives in a pot and sat it on my back porch, so I decided to re-plant them in the box with my garlic, I am hoping to have enough chives to dry next spring.


I punched little holes in the soil about 2 inches apart

I then pulled my garlic bulbs apart.
Planting garlic is really cheap, I just bought them at the grocery store.

I plunked those cloves in the holes and covered them up

As I was walking back into the house after planting my garlic I noticed the sky.
I was really hoping that my laundry would dry before the storm rolled in.

(At about 9:30 that night I did bring the laundry in before it started to rain, when it is only 60 degrees outside and cloudy all day the laundry doesn’t dry as quickly…I am thankful for my good ‘ol electric dryer!)