Valentine's Radishes

Valentine's Day, Feb 14, 2015
I planted a 1ft x 1ft square of radishes today. The ground was pretty easy to work this morning though it's supposed to get yucky.

I probably need to water the greenhouse but I'll wait until our next Arctic blast.

Seeing more and more daffodil tips coming up.

Radish planting (not much to see)

Daffodil buds

Chives coming out too if you look real close!

Seeing some leaves peeking out

Last week I saw some hyacinths peeking up and one little daffodil leaf breaking through!

I did not dig up any of my gladiolus bulbs this year just because I was lazy. We will see if they come back. One of the reasons that I didn't dig them up was that last year we had a really really cold winter and some of the bulbs that I missed still came up and bloomed!

I'm thinking that I will plant some spinach and put the shower door over the box garden this week!

Beets!

I picked the rest of the beets on Saturday...I'll probably have enough for a couple of pints of pickled beets.

I ate a green bean from the planting in August. There are lots of blooms so I could have some beans if it stays warm enough. 10 day forecast is pretty warm, but there is lots of rain possible.

Used tomatoes in chickpea cauliflower curry yesterday. Have some more yellow ones that we can pick if we want to eat some.

Didn't have too many tomatoes to put up that were not given to us, but had enough to definitely eat and use for every day cooking where I would have used a can of them.

Still picking brocolli and tomatoes

This morning I picked some broccoli and three red tomatoes. Still to harvest - Brussels Sprouts and tomatillos.

The green beans that were planted in August are flowering nicely. I'm sure that the water earlier in the week and the rain today will help a lot.

The beets really need to be picked.

I harvested the black beans and after shelling them have about a cup of them.

I bought two containers of flowers from Lowe's for .25 each and they seem to be surviving.

Mums are blooming.

picked a bunch of broccoli

Saturday I picked a bunch of broccoli...it filled up a colander. I need to get the black beans picked.

Some critter ate the chickpeas that I hadn't harvested.

Brussels Sprouts need some attention as they are being eaten by something though most of the sprouts look good.

I'm hoping that we have some sunshine this week to ripen some tomatoes.

Slowing harvesting tomatoes

So not much produce from my garden is being preserved, but we are eating some broccoli and eating tomatoes.

I will freeze some more tomatoes today before they go bad and hopefully with some rain and cooler temps, the new  beans will give us some green beans to eat. I need to plant the beets again. They didn't come up - probably because I did not water them!

Pumpkins aren't doing much unfortunately. I don't know which varieties ended up coming up, but they aren't growing very long tendrils. The one in the front bed under the boy's window has some type of fungus/mold so I don't know if it will do anything at all :(

Fall Garden

At the beginning of August we did plant some more green beans, sugar snap peas, onion sets and some beets, a few black beans too.

The beets do not seem to have made it though the others are coming up now.

So far I've canned one pint of pickled beets (we have 2+ in the frig) and 9 pints of whole(ish) tomatoes. Those tomatoes came from the neighbors. We've had enough tomatoes that we have eaten quite a few. My mom sent a bunch home with us and I made roasted tomato pasta with those.

I do have a large quart bag in the freezer and then part of another quart bag.