The fall garden is doing great.
The barren field from two months ago, looks like this today:
The mulching was superb and most of the weeds are under control. Further more, the thickness of the hay layer means greater water retention which means less watering for us. We water no more often than once every three days. The fact that the plants are in straight rows ease the process even more. Less work for us, Less water bills for duel. Perfect.
And now, we'll take a little walk through the garden and show you our precious plants.
The Holy Vegetable
Yes yes, the staple of the farm and our key player from last market season is with us yet again. This "Vegetable Of The Gods" has proved its worth to us once again and was one of the first plants to show us first beautiful honey colored morsels.Garlic
Three Big beds full with healthy looking garlics. We approximately have at least 350 plants. Wonderful!
Very prolific and robust plants, but alas; they are just standing there and begging to be used for something. The leaves are extremely spicy for regular human tongues (Although Turman And Mr. Fiddler would munch the whole field in a few days.) We tried cooking them but their zest yet remains. Any ideas?
The plants have started climbing slowly on our own made sustainable bamboo trellises. A lot of blooms and many more cucumbers to come.
Three Big beds full with healthy looking garlics. We approximately have at least 350 plants. Wonderful!Mustard Greens
Very prolific and robust plants, but alas; they are just standing there and begging to be used for something. The leaves are extremely spicy for regular human tongues (Although Turman And Mr. Fiddler would munch the whole field in a few days.) We tried cooking them but their zest yet remains. Any ideas?
Cucumbers
The plants have started climbing slowly on our own made sustainable bamboo trellises. A lot of blooms and many more cucumbers to come.Zucchinis
We caged some of the plants and left the other one's untouched to compare the results. Looks good so far.Lettuces
Looks great. Half of a row of these guys.Onions
Two beds full of onions. We think we are going to have about 150 plants.Beans
We have three rows of those guys. Three different varieties of beans. We are going to eat the first batch in a week or two.Cabbage
Looking good. Still far from ready but they are extremely frost tolerant so no worries there.BEETS!!!
Yeah beets! Hell yeah! For some reason we thought it would be a great idea to plant SIX beds full of beets. We later reconsidered and shrank the operation in to two beds.Peas
Our original three rows of peas became just one after the hurricane ripped a whole bunch of them. The remaining row looks relatively good but not as healthy and dense as our other plants. The half assed trellises we made out of a few T Posts and a wire failed to deliver. We learned.
Tomatoes
The plants look very healthy, green and tall. A few fruits and hundreds of blooms. Our main concern is the approaching frost. (estimated at the 15th of November) Without any doubt we planted them a little bit too late. We are going to try to use some rescue contraptions as floating row covers. It is going to be interesting.
Mesculine
The greens not the drug. Tastes like lettuce but with a mild zest to it. We like it.Drama Alert
Are you ready for this? Today we planted under Marty's advice. FOUR HUNDRED STRAWBERRY PLANTS. Yes yes, gentle reader, you are not mistaken. If everything will go according to plan (which it never does, but you know...) we are going to have at least a cool one hundred gallons of organic strawberry goodness. It was long and painful: the tractor tiller broke and we had to till by hand, but I think it was and is totally worth it. In the mean while, you can enjoy these virtual berries.
That's all for this time. We think about maybe trying to go to the market in two weeks and hustle some veggies.
Peace,
Reed
