final green bean harvest of 2010

This is it, my final green bean harvest of the season. Those who have followed my posts know of my trials trying to grow beans this year. So simple and reliable but for the insect predators that ate the tops off every seedling that sprouted, even with row covers! Persistence paid off and after [...read more]

eggplants galore!

Today was the zenith of our eggplant harvest; eleven in all and there are many more still growing. All this from six happy plants. Needless to say I have been using them as quickly as I can manage but finally had to admit that I have more than I can possibly use before they [...read more]

rain results in sprouts

After four solid days of rain most of the seeds I planted last Sunday have sprouted providing a nice outline of the planting plan described in an earlier post. The radishes, turnips, mizuna and arugula have all come up. The lettuces are laggards but I suspect that’s because the seed was pelleted and it [...read more]

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the sole surviving cauliflower, variety Sno Ball. Looks more like Dirt Ball. It was home to a colony of earwigs and became chicken feed. The chickens were delighted. grapes bush beans, two varieties cauliflower 2010-04-29 and a red leaf my parched lawn my lawn after aeration, fertilizer and overseeding water pan sits in the center grapes
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