July Harvest

Just one month later, the squash are taking off (July 29 photo). It is amazing how easy it is to forget each year that they WILL grow into the space we have provided for them, and then some!












Into the 3rd planting of spinach and the 2nd of mixed greens and lettuce (picture July 24 harvest).

July 25 harvest...each day she gifts us with more!

July 28:
Bowl of basil (2nd so far-pesto)
4 yellow squash
8 pickling cukes
2 cherry tomatoes





 



Our first year of root vegetables such as turnips and rhutabaga (picture July 29).


PLUS the bread bowl filled with lettuce/greens, three handfuls of green beans and a small bowl of cherry tomatoes.

AND 89 cloves of garlic and counting.  Only about half are harvested.  They are hanging to dry in the gazebo like a chandelier.

Strawberries and rhubarb

Rhubarb is always the first harvest. Made rhubarb chutney and a rhubarb almond tart (Rita B. recipe).

Our first year with enough strawberries at home - no Finks for us this year!

Four raised beds bursting with berries starting June 9. A mixed berry jam (w/ garden rhubarb too), strawberry Indian spice chutney, and froze 10 quart bags - plus lots of eating for us and the neighbors!

The squash (pictures taken June 20) are just starting.

But the transplanted tomatoes are looking a bit further along. Hannah guards the young plants from any intruders that might happen to break the fence barrier!

Seeds

 Seed savers, Johnney's, some leftover, some saved - the warm spring tricked me into planting early. March 14 the first of the seeds went under grow lights in the studio.  We added and upgraded the indoor nursery to almost 8 shelves of lumin powered joy! (picture May 6, 2012)

By May 6 we were planting some outdoors.  We added a cold frame to get a jump start on spring greens. (May 13 photo-after cold frame is removed.)

By June the chives are in bloom, we are eating greens from the garden, and the butterflies have found their way home!

2012 winter dreaming

Nammah's Garden was born in 2009 and she grows in size and importance each year. This year, 2012, we decided to keep track of what she provides. 2012 started with the addition of computer technology via a garden planning app! The idea was that it would help me to plant fewer seeds each spring.  I'm not sure that it helped, but it did provide a lovely period of winter time fantasy over garden planning.  -Paula