Category: 2008

2008 Garden in Review–Cauliflower, Cabbage, and Broccoli

2008 Garden in Review–Cauliflower, Cabbage, and Broccoli

In the end, my broccoli took up SO MUCH space! It didn’t produce as much as I had hoped. Still, I will do it again! The fresh broccoli was SO DELICIOUS it was worth...

2008 Garden in Review–Onions, Potatoes, Cucumbers

2008 Garden in Review–Onions, Potatoes, Cucumbers

Onions One thing I learned here–definitely worth starting from sets! All the time and effort I put into starting from seeds was pretty much wasted. I harvested 6 pounds of onions, and used every...

2008 Garden in Review–Squash, Peppers

2008 Garden in Review–Squash, Peppers

Squash This year I planted 1 mini-pumpkin, 1 regular pumpkin, and 1 zucchini. We harvested 7 small pumpkins and 3 large (one huge!). On one hand, we didn’t get a lot of pumpkins, considering...

2008 Garden in Review–Tomatoes

2008 Garden in Review–Tomatoes

First, we had a REALLY bad start with cool weather for at least a month longer than usual. I don’t think this was a typical year. I didn’t know of anyone with “too many”...

End of August

End of August

As you can see, I’ve been purging. In my middle box, everything got torn up except for 2 squares of onions. I replanted green beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, and peas. My pumpkins are the...

Harvest Rainbow

Harvest Rainbow

Harvest time! My first harvesting of peppers and tomatoes. I’ve still got TONS of green tomatoes, waiting to ripen!

Potato Harvest!

Potato Harvest!

Today was the best gardening day of my life ever! As I posted earlier, my potato plants looked so sad. I was tearing out my peas (which finally stopped producing) and thought I would...

Fourth Week of July

I’ve been somewhat angry at my garden this year. It snowed nearly every week in May, we had several huge windstorms, and it’s been unseasonably cool. The weather feels about a month behind. I...

2008 Garden, Third Week of July

2008 Garden, Third Week of July

My garden is finally starting to feel successful. Here it is: If you can believe it, I have been getting TONS of peas–all in July! By the calendar my peas should be long past...

2008 Garden, Second Week of July

2008 Garden, Second Week of July

The garden is growing. I’ve been harvesting peas, carrots, broccoli, and green beans. I even pulled out a small onion. So darn delicious. Note: a bunch of my onions are flowering. I finally read...