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The peas we planted were awful: inedible pods and small peas inside. They were a different kind (we forgot the name) from a random seed packet we got. Heather ripped them out a few days ago and planted our reliable Oregon Sugar Pod peas.

A couple days ago, I planted some bokchoi and Chinese broccoli on the east end of row 5. I also reseeded some corn, since i probably got about a 50% germination rate on the first planting.

The raspberries at the garden entrance have been solid performers this season. And as usual, we have more chard and orach than we know what to do with. There’s less kale, but a few plants are becoming established, and we have a bunch dropping seed right now.

The soil is still super moist, so the wood chips must help a lot with that… but I feel like some plants are starving for nitrogen. Or maybe it’s a pH problem; we haven’t tested that lately.

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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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A few days ago we transplanted some collard someone gave us on row 3.

Today we planted dry beans on row 4. We had to pull out a bunch of chard that was going to seed to make room for the beans, but we have plenty of young chard plants all over the place. We also transplanted a sungold tomato plant on row 3.

We’re still trying to keep on top of pulling out grass. It’s pernicious.

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We’ve been laying down cardboard and wood chips throughout the winter. We have just one row left to do. Hope it helps with weed control—especially grass!

Today, we planted potatoes and peas in row 3.

On Saturday, we tore out the dead nectarine tree and replaced it with a sour cherry tree (Morello).

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Fred Meyer had miners lettuce seed packets, which I’ve never seen in a store before, so we bought some and planted them in row 5 of the garden. We’ll see what happens.

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Alden managed to harvest some potatoes that were growing over by the shed he was taking down. 🙂

It looks like a deer busted through the garden netting a couple nights ago. Thankfully, the only plant damage was a small amount of beans and kale. Heather and I stitched the netting back together and reattached it to the T-posts.

The impact of the gopher on our garden has been horrible this year. A tomato plant was taken out this week, and the dry beans have been about 50% devoured. It looks like the gopher is also feeding on the roots of the plum and pear trees.

I bought Heather a bunch of garlic for her birthday. I picked a ten-foot-long spot in the middle of row 4 in the garden, dug out a few inches of soil, and lined it with some chicken wire we had lying around and hardware cloth we got from ReStore. We planted about 120 garlic cloves there. Heather also planted a similar amount in the mushroom area. Both of those spots are Siberian hard neck garlic. I also bought her four heads of Music hard neck garlic that she will plan in front of the house, inside the French drain perimeter. We’ll see what happens. We feel like the threats against our garden are so serious that we’re not sure what the future will hold.

On the bright side, I guess: while digging the row in the garden to prepare for garlic planting, I came across an underground pile of potatoes that had been cached by the gopher. They came spilling out when I hit the spot with my shovel. I’m glad we were able to stumble across those potatoes, but it’s maddening what the gopher has done.

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The corn that I replanted, they all sprouted. Who knows… So I thinned them today. The beans that I replanted didn’t do anything, so I planted newly-purchased beans today.

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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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Perfect day for working outside today: cloudy and 70°. We tackled a bunch of weeds around the house and added wood chips.

Earlier this week, I planted the first 4 corn seeds, and Heather planted cranberry beans. Today I planned about 8 feet of bush beans. We also picked up some compost from the city, and I spread some around the plants.

I harvested about 2 cups of strawberries. I think that’s the most I’ve ever harvested from our own plants in my entire life.

Not all of the peas sprouted, but the ones that did look super healthy now and are about a foot tall.

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I did a weeding blitz in the garden a few weeks ago and tackled it again today. We have some stubborn grassy spots that I’m not happy about.

Heather planted peas in row 1 and potatoes in row 2.

We have a pretty good supply of chard and a little bit of kale. And thousands of little orach plants all over the place.

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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.

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We have a gopher that just can’t resist bok choy. It took out the last of the bok choy from below yesterday and today. Luckily, the plants were left, and they crisped up in the fridge. We’re having Chinese food again tonight. I seeded some more bok choy in the place of the “harvested” ones.

Some Chinese brocolli sprouted. I reseeded the rest.

I reseeded some green beans once again. Tough going on green beans this year.

I transplanted an evil olive tomato.

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Only a few of the green beans in row 1 sprouted, so I replanted today. I came across some of the beans from the previous planting, and I can’t tell if they dried out or their sprouts were eaten. I saw ants in the area a few days ago. The beans on the other rows are doing better.

thevtomato plants are looking healthy, and the pepper plants are starting to look better.

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We had some great thunderstorms today that refreshed everything.

I reseeded corn where come seeds didn’t grow, and I added a few feet more seeds. I also seeded about five feet of Chinese broccoli.

I’m really happy about the bok choy. On plant got sucked down by a gopher, and one is struggling, but the other four are really vigorous.

The beans aren’t up yet, but I guess it takes them over a week to germinate. So we wait.

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We planted cowpeas in row 3. From east to west: pinkeye purple hull, red ripper, Ozark razorback. We planted cranberry green beans in the west end of rows 3 and 4 (beneath the trellises).

Heather pulled out the remaining kale plants from last year and hung them to dry so we can collect the seeds.

The neighbor’s hay was cut yesterday.

The plum tree is absolutely loaded this year!

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I planted about eight feet of Blue Lake bush beans on the west end of row 1. It’s been a grass-infested corner of the garden, so hopefully the bean plants and wood chips will keep the grass out.

Heather harvested garlic from the garden and in front of the house. The bulbs from in front of the house are small, but better than nothing.

And we still have mushrooms coming out our ears.

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A Pineapple Express dropped a half inch of rain yesterday.

The hops plant accidentally got weed-whacked, but it’s regrowing… plus, we noticed a couple additional bines coming up from the ground, too.

The first planting of potatoes is looking great. We planted the rest of row 2 in potatoes today.

The peas are sprouting.

The first planting of corn has a couple of sprouts coming up. I did the second planting today.

We have plenty of volunteer orach and lettuce.

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I planted Oregon sugar peas and the first 12 sweet corn seeds in row 1 of the garden.  The dirt on that row seems really compacted, so we’ll see how it goes.

We planted potatoes in part of row 2 a few weeks ago. They’re up and looking good.

We’ve had a good amount of volunteer lettuce and orach growing that we’ve been harvesting and enjoying at the dinner table.

We transplanted tomatoes and peppers last weekend.

We watched a deer decimate the fresh leaves on our grapevines yesterday. I’m glad the netting around the garden is working to keep them out.

The baby goats are all growing quickly. They’ve all been disbudded. In a few weeks, they’ll get banded and turned into wethers.

I think I’ve already ruined the new chainsaw engine. Not sure what’s going on.

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I think the mushroom harvest has finally ended. Wow! I’m pretty sure we have a year’s worth of dehydrated mushrooms thanks to Heather’s work.

The new growth on the artichoke plants looks great. They’re over two feet tall. Im excited to see what next year brings.

As of yesterday, we were still harvesting tomatoes and the late summer planting of peas. They’ve definitely slowed down, though, with fewer hours of daylight.

Heather pulled two potato plants today and got several pounds of potatoes. Here’s the biggest one:

She also harvested a rutabaga. There are several more out there. Plenty of kale and chard, too. And we haven’t even touched the leeks yet

Heather planted garlic in the garden and around the grapes around the beginning of October. It’s already sprouting.

We started moving some firewood into the carport for this season’s burning. We still have a lot of wood to split to get ready for next season.

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We got a nice shot on the trail cam of a deer walking through the monofilament like nothin’. So we installed polypropylene deer fencing around the garden. It seems to be working, but we’re keeping the trail cam out there in case the deer try anything.

I planted the last batch of corn today. The previous plantings are all up.

We’ve been picking a few beans here and there, but I think we’re just days away from a good crop starting.