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by WLLady » Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:51 am
I planted a few cabbage (i find a little goes a long way as i'm not a fan, but DH loves it). The rutabagas went nuts with leaves and buried the cabbage, and I guess I either totally forgot it was there, or selective memoried that it was there, whichever. Whatever, so i checked yesterday evening after being on here (jarred the memory of starting and planting) and viola! i too will likely be eating cabbage for MONTHS. LOL. the darned rutabagas look like they're pushing 5 pounds each. easily!
finally ate the very last watermelon. it was soooo good. these were small variety watermelons, and only 2-3 pounds. just perfect for 2 people in one day without going squishy. there were new flowers coming so i need to check if there will be a late crop. Having 2 beehives has completely changed the yields in the garden this year!
My second and third crop broccoli are both maturing at the same time. go figure. cauliflower is a little slower. peas are abounding now that i replanted and moved them to a different spot in the garden. apparently they like FULL sun....not partial shade. okay. whatever. Tomatoes out the whazoo. ketchup making time. tomato paste/sauce making time!
AND, i discovered a terrible fact. I can no longer dry tarragon in the house in the dehydrator. I LOVE tarragon. this year the sneezing and coughing was horrible! so i'll have to move the dehydrator outside next time. i dried up all the plants and have tarragon to last a lifetime, so i might not even plant it next year. it keeps amazingly well....
Next up is parsley, mint, chives (yes, i dehydrate chives too), basil and thyme and oregano.
We are going to put in another garden specifically for irises and russian sage. I weakened and got sucked in by a shale with a promise of 150$ off and free shipping.....of course one had to order over 300$...and well....there will be new cultivers in my garden next year. I HAD to get some spring flowers for the bees you see....crocusses and hyacinths...and the irises were so pretty on the next page in the catalogue, and well, then i realized that all my daylilies are either orange or yellow. lemon lilies or ditch lilies. so. need some variety there. and of course daffodils...and tulips....so. it's not really my fault.
okay, my name is WLLady and I have a problem. or ten. HAHA
Still have half a 50 foot row of beans to pick and blanch. but for sure now i have to clean out the freezers in order to make everything fit. One of the problems is a meat chicken in there (round and doesn't stack well) so maybe we'll rotisserie for dinner.
plus i also seem to have beehive brood frames in the freezer for some odd purpose....Maybe i'll just build in a slot for those to stand up when DH needs to put frames in there (apparently it's mite control...put in brood frames, let the bees fill with eggs and cap and the mites go in with the brood eggs and then freezing the frame kills the mites and their eggs and the brood, but one frame of brood won't hurt the hive...). Sweet corn will need to go into the freezer soon too (cut off the cobs). The birds found some and so i'll have to just sacrifice a few cobs. Next year, mental note to self, ducks are tall enough to reach the cobs and pull them down for the chickens....FENCING required....because the ducks breed like rabbits and there's no way to never have any ducks every again because they're a self renewing resource from february through november.....
can't wait to get dirt under my fingernails again. love the end of summer and harvest season. strangely somehow i don't mind being covered in dirt and eviscerating tomatoes....not sure what that says about me....hm....happy gardening everyone!
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Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
