This week in the garden
The fall
garden is nearly coming into its own now. This week, I saw
the first pea flowers --- surprisingly, the bush shelling peas opened
first even though they're considerably shorter than both the snow and
sugar snap peas.
We have a few tommy-toe tomatoes still coming on, even though their
plants are blighted. For a couple of weeks, we're able to eat the
typical American salad of lettuce, tomato, and cucumbers --- summer and
fall gardens overlapping on our plates. Meanwhile, the week's
freezer bounty includes pesto, swiss chard, broccoli, a tad of
tomatoes, green beans, corn, and okra.
We're actually watering everything this week, since it's been 10 days
since our last serious rain, but the year never really gave us the
usual summer break from weeding and mowing. Instead, Mark and I
are still putting in many hours a week keeping the yard and garden
ship-shape. But I'm starting to put a few beds down for the
winter rather than filling each gap with new seeds. Soon it will
be too late to plant anything except lettuce, spinach, and garlic.
Shame-faced plug: Check out the homemade chicken
waterer
that funds this blog.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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