Squeal........................... It's HARVEST TIME!

It's that time of year we have all been waiting for...we are starting to harvest.  Get your canning supplies in gear and buy your bottles.  Before long we will be bottling beans, tomatoes, and oh so much more.

In the meantime, here is what has been going on for the past month, along with pictures.  It is AMAZING how much the garden has grown since the last time I took pictures -- I'm awestruck!

We planted corn each week in June until the first week in July (June 7, 14, 21, 28 and July 5).

Thinned carrots on June 28th.

Got our first harvest of peas July 5th and each group has been able to harvest some peas, so a total of four harvests of peas so far.

We have harvested kale and swiss chard and lettuce and beets and 4 cabbages.

We twined up tomatoes on June 28, July 5th, and July 12th.

We fertilized the corn on July 5, 12 and 19th.

We have been weeding our little hearts out!

Pulled the suckers off the corn on the same day that we fertilized them.

Pruned tomatoes as well.  Pruned them on July 8 and 12.

Will be harvesting garlic soon and let it dry for a few weeks.

Today we weeded at the Scotts' garden and harvested some zucchini, eggplant, our first small batch of green beans (get your canners ready), lettuce, and a cabbage.

All the gardens have BURST and JUMPED!  We are in full bloom!  Remember the pictures I put up just a couple of weeks ago of the potatoes and the beautifully tilled rows.  Well, they have grown so much that we can't even get a tiller in.  But, that is GOOD, right?

Enjoy the pictures!

Also, here is a link to Jennifer Sumsion's website that has some great recipes (be sure to try the eggplant parmegan and the yummy chocolate cake that you make using beets -- yes, BEETS, and it is SCRUMPTIOUS!   http://jennifershomecooking.weebly.com/

SCOTTS GARDEN - 7/19/14:

Brogan Heward helping with the tilling

Little Tiller -- Ethan Heward

These are the weeds that never end....

The Captain of our Ship!

Getting excited!!!!!

Apricots

Basil

Dill

Grapes -- not technically part of our community garden, but beautiful, huh?

Plums

Harvested zucchini today

Beautiful plums

PACK GARDEN - 7/19/14

Potatoes

Onions, beans, tomatoes, eggplant

Onion

Beans

WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL MELONS!

Peppers

Hot pepper -- sidewise (sorry)

Slenderette Green Beans -- Best Beans on the Planet!

Eggplant harvest

Green Bean Harvest

PACE GARDEN - 7/19/14:
Popcorn

Beets from the Wheatley Garden

If anyone has good recipes to share using any of the garden produce, please send to susan_wheatley@comcast.net and I will post.  Also, for those of us who are not used to fresh veggies straight from a garden, would someone please send to me "how to" step-by-step instructions on how to cook things like swiss chard, beets, cabbage, beet greens, eggplant, and everything else we have in the garden.  I would happily put it on the blog.  Ready, set, GO!!!!