tatume squash
hardly any make it into the house
still more to come…
lucullus chard continues to produce
first year trying okra
beans galore
finding the bottom of the barrel?
sunflowers!
kazakh melons
pigeon peas still young
love his homemade gates
always adding more mulch
What’s happening in your garden?
All last week was pretty warm so we decided to go ahead and get most of the spring garden in. As we have expanded our growing spaces, we tend to have one to two very full weeks of garden preparation and sowing every spring. So last week we set school aside, let the dishes and…
It has been cool and breezy; wet and muddy – really unlike any August I’ve seen since we’ve been here. Though there is a change of seasons in the air, I’ve come to realize that we plant not on a fixed schedule or in terms of months, but rather when there is a path made towards planting. This…
I’ve received quite a few books over the past few months on the various topics that interest me – mostly sustainability, gardening, and cooking. This is where I share some of the highlights from that bookshelf. And, if you haven’t read The Nourishing Homestead or the review we posted with author Ben Hewitt, I highly…
The story of the spring garden is much like past years… in some ways. We plant early to try to beat the summer heat because it isn’t abnormal to be cool like spring one week and in the 90s the next. We are now already full-on in the latter stage, by the way. But this…
We started these seeds a few weeks ago thinking that by now they would have made it into the gardens. But there’s not enough water to warrant a planting. The ponds are starting to go dry. The house hole is dry. The gardens are dry. Last week we mixed that wood ash into the spot…
Digging up root vegetables is probably one of the most exciting homestead tasks. The children absolutely love it, and so do we, especially since we get to watch their reactions upon digging. This year the sweet potatoes somehow grew, despite the drought and death of everything else in the garden come July. I am sure…
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Our garden is doing well this year – but my tomatoes are all still green. The colder than normal winter delayed everything this year. Okra – one of my favorite things to grow. Hope you have good success with it. We grow Clemson spineless okra. Enjoyed your pictures as always.
How I wish I could grow melons up here! We have some local farms that do, but they never seem to grow in my garden. It looks wonderful!