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This Weeks Flowers : Lavandula Pinnata...

Our Lavender plant from Mount Holyoke continues to grow.

...with buds (frankly, we could not believe our eyes. How could a plant so small produce flowers?)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week in my Garden : October 20th

As it turns out, my gardening leaves much to be desired. I put in a maximum of effort for a minimum of produce; never-the-less, I think I will try again next year before I give up completely and become a cut flower farmer.

This weekend I started to clean out the garden in preparation for winter and I harvested the last of the produce.

Before you think I pulled them up too early, I should mention that I chose a stubby variety for my six inch deep beds.

I planted these in May...it took all summer for them to grow, probably a waste of gardening space considering my garden is so small.

They went straight from the garden into a pot roast with a slight detour into the sink to wash off the dirt. Fresh roasted carrots! Yum!

And that about wraps it up for the gardening posts this year!

There were a few baby carrots that were donated to the dollhouse; come for a look! Adventures at Weathertop.

 

This Week in my Garden : August 28th

I am beginning to loose steam for this project. The yeild of my garden has been a bit disappointing. I think by the end of the season, the garden will have produced several winter squash and a bunch of tomatoes, which will be exciting, but we have only grown three zucchini (unless the plant suddenly starts producing more), a handful of green beans and peas, some radishes, maybe three beets and some lettuce. Unfortunately, I think the squash plants kind of choked out most of the other plants. I am also beginning to want to pull out some of the plants that look like they are drying up. The problem with this is that some of the spaghetti squash looks like it is dying, but other parts look like they still might produce some squash. I think it would be hard to know what is dead and what is thriving at this point, as it is all jumbled together.

Nevertheless, here goes...

Last week:

This Week:

What you might notice is that I have cut all of the lettuces. We enjoyed a nice big salad from our own garden this week. The first salad completely grown in our garden.

The tomatoes are turning and are delicious...however, I have a hard time not just popping them in my mouth, even though I am really not supposed to eat tomatoes.

 

The Butternut squash is busy producing baby squashlings.

 

It must be a bit of a later bloomer.

I finally found out what plant this is...

Cilantro...

That is it for this week.

 

This Week in my Garden : August 21st

I am sorry wemissed a week of garden progress while we were gone, but  we can now return to our regularly scheduled program.

Two Weeks ago:

This week:

In my absence, my spaghetti squash has started to fail a bit. The leaves have started to dry out and curl up, but we did harvest two squash from this plant and a few more may still reach maturity.

The tomatoes have started to turn...finally. And they are delicious.

The zucchini I left on the plant for Mr. MacGyver, did not get harvested and so grew to an enormous size. There were only two and so far I haven't seen much evidence of further growth.

There are lettuces...

...beans...

...and radishes.

We will be eating well this week.