My fellow farmers and I have been diligently working in our garden this year. I have gardened off and on since my oldest was born, but have begun to take more of an interest in it recently.
We buried our pumpkin in the garden when it started to rot as compost. That pumpkin lasted from September through after New Year's, by the way! We were quite surprised to see that some of the seeds from the rotten pumpkin had sprouted and we now have a pumpkin plant. The flowers are huge and beautiful!
We planted 3 packs of Bush Blue Lake green beans back in February and have harvested about 5 dinner servings worth of green beans so far. My little one loves green beans. Unfortunately, she mostly loves the canned variety, but we're working on getting her to enjoy the fresh, too!
The cucumbers have been really tasty. Chase was willing to try them, but did not like them :( So far, I have been the only one to eat them!
We are growing cucumbers, yellow summer squash, Tom Thumb zucchini, yellow pear tomatoes, grape tomatoes, Homestead tomatoes, green cabbage, purple cabbage, green beans, corn, broccoli, and some other tomato varieties as well as a variety of peppers.
The broccoli is pretty much done at this point. We may get a few florets off of the last plant left. We harvested the broccoli twice. Not too successful. We have harvested a whopping 2 yellow pear tomaotes, 1 grape tomato and 2 cherry tomatoes. We lost a few big, no name tomatoes to blossom end rot so far and several yellow squash to the same problem. We've harvested about 6 cucumbers, 4 yellow squash, 2 cubannelle peppers, a few jalpenos and 1 poblano pepper so far.
We love our garden!
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