Showing posts with label Waltham Butternut Squash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waltham Butternut Squash. Show all posts
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Don't Blink!
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| Sweet potatoes June 25 |
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| Sweet potatoes June 15 |
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| Silver queen corn June 15 |
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| Silver queen corn June 27 |
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| Yellow Crookneck June 19 |
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| Yellow Crookneck June 27 |
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| Butternut June 19 |
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| Butternut June 27 |
This morning I had to bait some ants that had gotten into my nesting boxes in the chicken coop with a sweet honey and borax mixture. This has worked for me in the past inside my house. The little buggers take the borax-laced honey back to their queen, which kills off the whole colony. I put the mixture outside the coop so that it wouldn't hurt my hens. The girls seemed pleased that I raked out all their poop this morning - and added it to the compost trenches.
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| ...after an hour the ants covered the lethal honey mix |
Today I found the first little lima bean pods on the Fordhook plants.
The corn has pretty little pink things on the tassels.
Also on the farm...
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| Blooms on yellow crookneck squash |
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| Fat tomato |
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| Yukon Gold potatoes |
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| Maple tree |
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| Coneflower |
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| Bee balm, Becky shasta daisies and coneflower |
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| Hydrangea |
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| Double-blooming daylillies |
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| Gladiolas |
Sunday, June 23, 2013
June 23, 2013
This weekend Alan I worked in the garden some more. The asparagus bean plant (which produces beans that are supposed to taste like asparagus - I am looking forward to trying these!) jumped up and germinated a week or so earlier than expected, so Alan went ahead and made a trellis out of some tree limbs we had laying around.
I weeded and mulched around the newly germinated squash, asparagus bean plant, blue lake bush beans, garden contender bean and okra. Still no sight of the carrots.
Then I mulched around the bean plants that are already established, threw around some 10-10-10 fertilizer (after the disappointing results of my soil test), and planted cucumbers. I tried to help Alan till between the corn and beans with the little tiller, but tilled up a bean plant in the process and decided I better leave the hard work to him.
I harvested some more beans and a little kale. I realized some of the surviving bean plants from our first attempt at the garden this year are lima beans! Yay!
I weeded and mulched around the newly germinated squash, asparagus bean plant, blue lake bush beans, garden contender bean and okra. Still no sight of the carrots.
Then I mulched around the bean plants that are already established, threw around some 10-10-10 fertilizer (after the disappointing results of my soil test), and planted cucumbers. I tried to help Alan till between the corn and beans with the little tiller, but tilled up a bean plant in the process and decided I better leave the hard work to him.
I harvested some more beans and a little kale. I realized some of the surviving bean plants from our first attempt at the garden this year are lima beans! Yay!
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| Still a ton of grass, but at least there are vegetables in there in between the grass! |
The beans are so fresh and so yummy. I discovered a great recipe for them and posted it on my FeedMeSomething.blogspot.com blog. We ate much of this and then I froze the rest after blanching.
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