Pictured:
- little pudge fighting for the day’s green bean harvest and a flowering pepper plants.
- tomatoes: heirloom, cherry, sprinter and glacier in two long rows. Maybe 30 plants currently producing.
- fall cabbage starts, 3 comfrey plants, 2 (maybe 10 ft long) rows of green beans.
- cucumbers x 4, greens, winter squash x 5.
- perennial herb garden: 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 ft. each of catnip, peppermint, sage, thyme, oregano, echinacea and yarrow. Failed patches of chives, maca, and plantain.
- preserved this week: 1 gallon of blanched broccoli for freezer, 26 jars of blueberry jam, 6 quarts of dill pickles.
Not Pictured:
- 10 pots of annual herbs
- a few rows of garlic and onions
- two long rows of hot and sweet peppers
- more greens and onions started for fall
- an almost three year old who loves to say “these are green beans from the garden!”
- two adults thankful and in awe of God’s provisions – from a tiny seed to food on the table
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how could your plantain fail – the stuff is weed all through my yard! Are you growing a different variety. What do you plan to do with it. I use it for topical applications but I know you can eat it also – greens and the seeds for breads and such.
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Shannon, wow – your garden is outstanding.
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Different items in the gardening looks very impressive.
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Could you give us more info. on how to do the root celler. How deep, storage container help, etc. I tried to do one with my onions, but it didn’t work?? Thanks a bunch! And b/t/w your garden is beautiful!!
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