Harvest Monday 12/10/2012

I am so happy I have my garden!

My harvest today - one turnip and one young daikon radish (my first one, I planted them in September).

And I also harvest all the greens every day. We recently started a raw diet and all my greens are helping me to make different healthy salads.

 Komatsuna mustard and parsley - tender and fresh.

 Tat soy - dark green and crispy.

 Toscano kale

 Parsley and radish in gold frame

Bok choi

 Mutzuna.

 Chinese cabbage, lettuce  and bok choi






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November madness - seeds starting!

Do you think I am crazy? Yes I do!
this is November, yesterday was snowing.....and I am starting new seeds!
Actually I have unheated room over the garage, very sunny, that I use for storage and plants.

So I think I need more greens.
I am using coffee filters and zip-lock bags for starting.

 There will be some new lettuces, komatsuna mustard, cilantro, swiss chard, carrot and probably basil. will see.

 And there are my 2 wees old radishes next to store bought onion green.

 1 month old beets

 2 weeks old asian cabbages, broccoli raab, tat soy

and my favorite - Kale (this time redbor).

Raw food: Daikon Radish, Carrot and Butternut Squash

I am new to Raw Food diet and experimenting with different products.
Today I made a new autumn salad, I just like the colors!

1/2 cup daikon radish shredded
1/2 cup Butternut Squash shredded
1 medium carrot
some raisins,
olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

New Season Garden Fence

Yes, it is November and I am dreaming about new season vegetable garden.
That will be my full second year, and I wish I can do it more serious, productive and beautiful

There you can see my old fence. not very sturdy.

 So I bought 2  4x4 post and asked in a store to cut them by 4 feet. Now I have 4 4-feet post.
I reuse last year 40 inches green wire.
 I also bought 1x2x8 long wooden strips and 2x3x4 wooden post.

There is a corner block .

One block is ready to be nailed (I use U-nails to attach wire to the wooden posts.)

The end of day first - 4 blocks

Harvest Monday, raw diet and November garden update

Sorry, I missed some month.
I love my garden, recently we started a raw food diet after some years of vegans and this is great!

Everyday we can eat raw organic salad from my garden, I'm just buying tomatoes and peppers.

I have a lot of greens, and even after the Sandy and a  huge snow storm in New England the greens look great.

I do not have pictures of everyday bunch of greens, just  beds.

I made a simple cold frame and planted

 there radishes, kale and cilantro.

 Winter carrots

 Daikon radish - 2 finger thick!

 Asian greens - tat soy, mizuna, bok choy and swiss chard

 Bok choy - my favorite!

 Kale

 Komatsuna mustard

 Collard








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Harvest Monday 8/20/2012

Some squashes and eggplant

the biggest round squash weighs 2.8 lb
I am very happy with my first year of gardening.

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Harvest Monday and August garden

 
The garden looks wild and bushy, I was on vacation and spent a lot of time on my works doing big order to Spain.
I am picking tomatoes early before they getting red, the plant are heavy overloaded with them.

 Squashes come ouf of the garden

 Here I am!

 Banana peppers bed

 Basil, Chard and other herbs

 Beats and red cabbage

 Kale and cuces.

 Cherry plum tomatoes.

 Eggplants almost ready.

 Tomatoes jungle

Beefsteak.

And I do not care!

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Powdery mildew experiment

I'm first time gardener and everything is new to me. 

For example - powdery mildew. I have some cuces on a very sunny spot on my deck, I thought I can be the perfect place for them, yes they're starting to grow very nice little cuces, but
those white spots!

Cuces in a more shady garden do not have those problems.
I guess it is powdery mildew. So today, may be late, I began an experiment - I mixed 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp dish liquid, 1 tbsp fish emulsion in a water and sprayed the leaves on top and bottom.
Let's see....

First pumpkin and hummingbird

Today I wanted to share my first pumpkin growing and when I was working with photos I saw a green hummingbird coming to check it! 

There is my mixed pot next to a garage. There are begonia, geranium, pumpkin small sugar and some pink wild flowers.  Those wild flowers are very attractive to bees and as I see to hummingbirds.

It is very hard to make a clear picture through the window!

Here I can see the red neck - 

 so probably this is Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

And this is a pumpkin's photo I wanted to share! 

Is is a size of a tennis ball now!