We had an awful carrot season this year. Carrots wouldn’t size up no matter where we seeded them this year. Three different beds. We had really bad rust fly where we had to toss lots of carrots as we were cleaning them. But for next year, we are prepared. We’ve already purchased row covers and… Continue reading Carrots and Tomatoes
Category: Harvest(ing)
Beauty
There is beauty all around us. To me this photo depicts beauty and of course it doesn’t hurt that my favorite color is green!
Bounty
We’ve got some nice looking garlic that we pulled from the garlic patch today. The apple trees are so loaded they are drooping and the blueberries and raspberries are coming on strong.
FRUIT
We are picking and picking and picking berries around here. We are cleaning up the strawberry patch. We’ve been picking black raspberries. The raspberries and blueberries have started to come in and our black currant bushes are the best ever. This appears to be a good fruit season and the apple trees are loaded with… Continue reading FRUIT
Strawberries
We will be open all day today and tomorrow. Stop by and pick up a quart of just picked for you nutrient dense strawberries.
Beets
Just pulled all of our beets from the garden. Now to pickle them all. The picture shows the beets that we picked minus the 2 pots that are already on the stove boiling away. I think there are a lot more beets than we thought. Yikes. This could be an all day/night marathon of beet… Continue reading Beets
Dry Beans
Here’s some dried beans that we just finished husking. These were grown this summer. Will be growing much more on a larger scale next year.
The Bounty
Just finished getting 21 pounds of apples ready for apple butter. Sure is a long process having to put all those cooked apples through a food mill. Good work out for the arms. We picked about 60 pounds of apples yesterday. Keith hoisted me up in the bucket of his tractor. When we picked those,… Continue reading The Bounty
