Monday, September 21, 2009

Harvesting

We moved into our house in January 2009.  One of the first things we did once the weather warmed up was put in a vegetable garden.  Scott and I don't really have much experience growing our own food, so we were delighted when this first attempt produces some lovely vegetables. 
     Our lettuce did very well and we have only now begun to buy lettuce at the market now that that crop is pretty much done.  The radishes grew really well, as did the spinach.  We were a bit too early planting our tomatos outside, but they survived.  The only problem is the lack of sun this summer has left us with many GREEN tomatoes that don't want to ripen.  Luckily though, we are getting some fine grape tomatoes.  The biggest excitement for me though was growing potatoes!  They are so much fun, and EASY!  I want to plant even more of those next year.  I seem to have only planted one zucchini plant, but that one plant has produced just enough zucchini that we aren't getting overloaded and sick of zucchini which I have heard can happen easily.  The garlic were planted in the spring which didn't work out for us, so we will plant some soon for next summer's harvest.  The cucumbers are only now producing, and thus far we've harvested 3 that were crispy delicious.  The pumpkins are just about ready to pick and look as good as the spaghetti squash we ate a couple of weeks ago.
The other vegetables we grew were:
carrots , beets, endive, peas, turnips, cabbage, brocolli, green onions, herbs (parsley, sage, rosemary, calendula, thyme, oregano, marjoram, chives, cilantro, mint, lemon balm)
Looking forward to growing again next year, and maybe even expanding into the backyard with another plot.

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