Final? Harvest

Weather says possible snow tonight and the pepper plants were already showing signs of frost damage... So we got the last of the food out of the garden, (except the cold hardy cauliflower, kale and herb bed) and cut down the bean vines, and pulled the pepper plants. I can't say it's been a good year but it has been an informative one.

Big bowl of parsnips... and a few baby carrots.

A massive pile of parsley

Some smallish green peppers and a demented twin eggplant.

Here Comes Trouble

Saw this lil squirrel digging around the garden today and I couldn't figure out what he would be looking for. We haven't planted anything new or even turned over the soil in a long while.... Then it hit me.

He's not looking for food, he's hiding food.

We're going to have a lot of weird "weeds" in the spring..

Long time no see.

October and still very green

Sorry it's been so long folks. Life kinda crept up on me and kept me distracted from the better things in life like blogging. :)

As you can see above, the cauliflower on the far left are healthy but not producing yet. The kale in the middle are loving the cold weather, the pepper plants in the right corner are a bit heavy with peppers and kind of droopy from the recent frost, and the parsnips on the lower right are going strong. The tomatoes, peas, and beans have given up for the year, and the herb bed needs some serious tending. (anyone need some parsley?)

Next weekend(or the one after if it rains again) we'll be mixing in amendments and covering the beds for winter.

Harvests & updates

It's been a long hot summer and I actually managed to grow a social life of sorts. I haven't been taking pictures, I haven't been weighing harvests, I haven't been planting, and I haven't been updating... bad girl.

I offer an apology to my readers, and an approximate description of harvests and current garden conditions, as well as info regarding future plans.

The onions never matured.

We did eat a bunch of these already. Very tasty!

Garlic, garlic, garlic!

We've been picking peas and snap beans as they mature and recently have been able to pick some cherry and plum tomatoes as well. I've also just harvested the onions and garlic.

And now for the garden tour:

Garlic Harvest

The tops of the garlic didn't really flower, it... budded.

 They look like little cloves and I'm going to plant them this fall.

These are the four garlic heads from the front of the house.

They're VERY dirty and don't seem to want to come clean. 

I may have left them in too long because the stems came right out of the center.

Small head gave 4 cloves once peeled.

They smelled and tasted delicious. A bit more "fresh" or "green" tasting than I'm used to with store stuff but this was store stock so... *shrug*.