Our Happy Acres

I haven’t posted much about gardening of late, but I’ve been busy dealing with the harvests. Even though this has been an unusually hot and dry year (5 degrees warmer than average, and 8 inches less rain than “normal”) our heavily mulched and intensively planted gardens have been extremely productive.
As of today we’ve harvested over [...]

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There’s only one way to describe the weather here lately, and that’s HOT-T-T! High temps are supposed to be in the mid 90s all week, hitting 96F today. That has meant gardening chores have to be done as early as possible in the day. It has to be bad on tomato pollination, but only time [...]

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When I went to check on the garlic beds yesterday I was shocked to find that some of it was ready to be dug. It’s exactly two weeks before I started digging last year, but then I remembered that I had waited too long for a couple of varieties. Not surprisingly, those were two of [...]

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I started to add ‘Warts and All’ to the title, since it seems like many of the photos I took indicate weeding or other work is needed. Regardless, here’s what some of the gardens look like as we near mid-June.
The potatoes in the lasagna bed are starting to bloom. The foliage looks good, and so [...]

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I do love this time of year in the garden, when the fruit is ripening and both spring and summer veggies are in the harvest bucket. Last week we enjoyed the last of the spring strawberries along with the first of the blueberries and black raspberries. This is our first taste of the black raspberries [...]

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The harvests last week seemed to mostly involve the colors green and red. In the green camp we had:
Arugula

Garlic Scapes

Lettuce

The broccoli was bluish-green
In the red zone we had:
Cherries

Strawberries

The radicchio harvest seemed to be both green and red:
Our most memorable meal from the week’s bounty was the day we made pesto and used it on pita [...]

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