Tag: green beans

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Haven’t posted for a while. Here’s a recap…

We’ve had some solid successes this year. As or right now, we’re still getting a few raspberries — they kept going all summer and into the fall. We also have more than enough chard, kale, and collards, plus a few fall orach plants. We harvested peppers a few weeks ago, and they put on another crop that’s still growing. The green beans and dry beans did pretty well.

We got some corn — not a lot, but enough to enjoy. The sungold tomatoes have done well, and the Juliets are small but plentiful.

The pestilence this year was squash bugs. Never had them before. They took out the spaghetti squash plants after a few squash had grown, and the delicata before anything was produced. We might have to skip squash for a couple years, or find a variety that is resistant.

Hazelnut harvest was a couple weeks ago, if I remember correctly.

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We finally got our first green bean harvest. We’re picking two or three lemon cucumbers a day. We harvested some potatoes a week or two ago. The newly planted peas should start producing soon. We need to start harvesting the collards. We have a good amount of basil. The raspberries are making another round of berries that we can start picking soon.

There are lots of japeño peppers growing. The tomato plants have been slow, but there are a few tomatoes on the way. Some delicata squash are finally starting to grow.

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I planted corn on the east half of row 1 (ong the squash). I planted green beans on about 7 feet of row 3 — jade on the north side and blue lake on the south side.

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Pea harvest has begun!

Hardly any of the corn or green beans germinated. I guess it doesn’t pay to use old seeds. I replanted a bunch of seeds of both, but I don’t know if it will do any good.

Heather planted more dry beans, and she transplanted kale.

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Lots to catch up on…

The peas just kept on peaing through the summer. We got the last of them, for the most part, a week or so ago, but we’re still getting a few more here and there.

The green beans finally started producing and we got plenty for a few weeks, but they’re about done now.

We harvested the last corn on the cob last week. It was probably about a week past it’s prime.

I planted Chinese broccoli in early August, I think. It bolted quickly, but I cut and used the stalks. It also got aphids real bad on the buds and flowers, so I tossed those parts. We planted kale right next to the Chinese broccoli a few weeks ago, and a few aphids were showing up there, too. But we’ve been able to start picking some kale (and chard) last week.

The potato and chickpea harvests have been good. The tomatoes were late this year, but they’ve been doing well. We bottled about 36 points of pizza sauce. We’ll make salsa with our next batch. Which reminds me: the peppers have been solid producers this year: banana, jalapeño, and poblano.

Our plum tree about killed itself this year. Literally, several branches broke from the weight of the fruit. We made some great plum BBQ sauce and sweet & sour sauce. We harvested a bunch of purple plums from Wayne’s tree a few weeks ago and dehydrated them.

Heather started planting garlic today.

We harvested two of the young goats with much-appreciated help from our son-in-law. It’s a hard thing to do. He got one and we kept the other. We put 20 pounds of meat in our freezer. Heather was able to sell the other two young goats this week. They went to a lovely piece of land a few miles west of here to work in brush management.