We have certainly been busy this week with the garden. We got sugar pie pumpkins and greek sweet butternut squash seeds planted. We put in almost 40 tomato plants: romas, sungolds, better boys and yellow boys. We put in a ridiculous amount of peppers because in the past, I have not been very successful in getting the seeds to germinate so I planted a lot, but this year we had 100% success and if I have them, I gotta plant them. I had started some cucumbers and those are coming along nicely, put I haven’t gotten them in the ground yet. I also started spaghetti squash and a few pumpkin varieties and these are coming up too, so I need a new garden plot stat! Our peas are growing daily, and all of our kale, spinach, lettuce, and chard are up, but still quite small and needing to be thinned soon. We are having a lot of beans popping out of the ground. We have both bush and pole beans this year. Our asparagus patch is a little strange, with a stalk coming up here and there, but not a lot of growth, so I have decided to stop cutting and let it fern out. I am hoping it is just still young. On the upside, we did some good old fashioned bartering with one of our neighbors and got 3lbs of her asparagus in exchange for eggs. Yum! We have harvested plenty of herbs this week – chives, mint, and tarragon. And, we are loving the rhubarb! The kids harvested quite a bit today coming in at 2lbs 4.8 oz.
Harvest totals thus far:
Asparagus 1lb, 6.3 oz
Rhubarb 7lb, 10.7 oz
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- Taking the tomato seedlings out to the garden
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- Planting the tomatoes
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- Finn was so careful with the seedlings
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- Lily gets love under our bean trellis
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- Rhubarb!
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- Finn likes to use the big leaves as a hiding spot
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- Josette likes to shake hers around
