Peppers take a walk

The tomatoes are too tall. The Marigolds are too darn bushy. The potatoes are done. Liberate as many spuds as you can find. Work the clayey soil. Mutter to yourself for the fact you might have gotten 20lbs of spuds. Haven't weighed it. Either a 2-1 or 3-1 ratio. Thinking to yourself whether you had to fertilize more or water, or the heavy soil. Shrug it off. Dig up the various peppers being enclosed upon and give them a new home. Moist and call it a day.

Aerial - Pepper Movement | Tomato encroachment

Hmm... I'm not sure what happened.

Aloo Bindi

Here's to the thoughts of everyone eating well out of their respective gardens! I know it has been a rough one across the US for any sort of decency out of the weather department. Keep Strong.

Tonights dinner is an indian inspire concoction I will call 'Aloo Bindi Masala' or an a@@/butt/rear? kicking good dish comprised of potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplant coming from the garden.

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The Outback - Video #22

Not the proper one. Sorry Liz. @ http://eight-acres.blogspot.com/   ;) Although I wouldn't mind going back to it in the future.

Is it really summer? Might need to harvest something!

Earlier V and I watched from the living room picture window as a frog made its way into the straw mulch beneath the Broccoli plants. Checked it out later on and it is still living there happily. I can accept that arrangement. It eats all the creepy bugs that wish to do harm. We therefore can go without spraying anything. Sounds very organic to me!

Concerning the east garden pest posting. We never ended up bothering to do anything about it. Appears it has corrected its own self for the time being. Either it is too dry for them or perhaps the frog we saw for the broccoli has a counter part over there eating them. Fine by me. I prefer to think gardening is really about nature doing the bulk of the work while we merely guide aspects of it for our own will.

Few days Late

Took this video on the 6th of May. Few days ago. Since then the garden has grown a bit. I was telling V this morning how tonight we need to eat a bit of salad because the garden is getting out of control....

This video encompasses nearly everything but specifically the Wheat, Broccoli, and Potatoes.

Today while outside this morning I noticed that the eggplant sticks are sprouting new leaves. A few of the pepper sticks are still green and the Okra is hanging in there. The potatoes really are bulging up out of the dirt in the front yard now.

I've had a few conversations with jody @ spring garden Acre about broccoli plants. So here is my video reply to how the have gotten on so far being planted in february in michigan.

Enjoy.

Surprised Ouch - Cold Potato

I was so busy preoccupied with everything else yesterday. Turned out that the weather dipped into the mid 20s this early morning. Last evening I failed to place cloches on the solanums. What a miserable looking bunch those have become.

Oh, the potato freezer burn. Those poor little tops. They will of course come back nice and strong. I always knew if I chose to plant them early that I would accept the possibility of them being freezer burned back. Then wait for them to grow again. So far, it appears to me that it take a lot to kill anything with a bulb, tuber, or rhizome of sorts. While the tops look horrid there is still plenty of healthy, vibrant under growth leaves.

Now those peppers and eggplant. Not of the rhizome family sad to say.

Anyhow, yesterday we purchased general purpose non-scary 10-10-10 fertilizer. (Ingredients being poultry poo, alfalfa meal, and several mineral additions etc) All along we have been really winging all of this. Have yet to bother to soil test anything. There is an abundance of leviathan earthworms that spring from the soil. I take it as indication of overall soil health. Things grow well enough considering its heavy. Albeit double-dug, worked, cultivated, aerated like a mad man.

Freeze Burn 

Many healthy lower leaves

Freeze Burn

Fifteen - April 26th Video update

Could It be?

Last night I was rummaging through the previous videos. I am happy with the decision to create this blog and video accompaniment. It gives a means to check back on how things are progressing. In the case of potatoes and a few other items...very well indeed. Also one could think it can be used for information concerning following years. I am a bit leery on that idea somewhat. Namely, it's my deep sense that next year may actually be a winter year. Seems highly un-likely that we will be able to get away with planting out mid february again. Alright. Yes. We could just get off our bums to build a few DIY poly-tunnels. *shrugs*

There was just so much to do! Speaking of that. Now that the majority of things are filling out it really does not feel like there will be much work left to do to maintain it all.

Here's to front loading a bunch of work in the down time! .... and Michigan weather allowing me to do just that!

In an earlier posting it was mentioned that a few solanums might have been sacrificed along the way.... If and only if the last of winter depths this evening doesn't put the nail in.... Those decimated two-foot tall (planted the stems deep) polish linguista and Brandywines are going to come back! The baren-lifeless stalks are sprouting leaves. :) Who knew?

Leaf Sprouts on the lower Right

Sprouting on the Lower Half

This is the onion bed. It is in here because I find it a gorgeous sight!

OK. The above photo is the onion bed. A mixture of leek, amposta, stutts (grown from seed), and the jumbo sweets from sets. 9 plants wide and (from a counting inside through the window) 19 long. 171 onions? I'm sure there is around 30 left in a flat in the backyard. What do we need 200 onions for???

side note : Planted the raspberry and blueberry bushes today. ;)

Harvest Monday - Fancy Pants Salad Bowls

Big warm hello to all fellow Blogger Gardeners!

The primary reason for the blogging is to give a means of charting along the progression of it all. Looking out from the Sun-room I can see the potatoes have grown half a foot in the last two weeks. The bed once covered in soil is now growing awash in shoot greenery. The first bed of wheat has sent up shoots as well. Smiling as I am crouching down on the small path between the beds. Observing first hand the 3 inch shoots sneaking past the leafy mulch used to confuse wildlife. Appears to have worked. ;) Brushing away the leafy layer of another bed shows beans happily working their way free of their huge beany shells. Here's to hoping that the hidden corn is working on doing the same.

The Yard lettuce was getting to the point of being able to pick a bit. Not to say we have not been grazing for a week or two... There was one plant of Mizuna that was getting out of control. It had dinner salad written all over it. Here thinking it would be a small side bowl, nonetheless became a whole salad bags worth. V informed me during picking that today was Harvest monday and that we should take a few photos to mark the occasion.

Lucky for you all, in my reminded state, we did just that. :)

This is a mixture of Red Russian, Mizuna, Red romain, Green lettuce, spicy leaves of mystery, onion leaves, cilantro, italian parsley, spinach, oak leaf, radish sprouts, and several various other ones I have no clue about. :)

Fanciest bowl of greens we have had to date. Minus the dressing, the appeal of less than 100 foot food is strong! According to the shopper of the household this would be a big bag of salad mix worth $4.00. :) I feel it was worth a bit more personally, but I'm biased of my green children.

5 bowls worth 4-23

5 bowls worth 4-23

5 bowls worth 4-23

Berry Balsamic Vinegrette

Berry Balsamic & Pine Nuts

Day in the Life - Pictorial

Front Overview - East

Front Overview - West

Cabbage | Brussels #1

 

Tomato | Eggplant | Pepper #2

Potato #3

Greens - East #4

Greens - West #5

Maggio Onion | Elephant Garlic #6

Chard | Peas | Beets #7

Radishes #8

Onions | Leeks #9

Broccoli #10

East Garden- South

East Garden - North