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The Pumpkin is Orange!

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This past week a very exciting thing happened in our garden: the pumpkin turned completely orange! And for that we are giving thansk - well for that and a whole plethora of other things! .094 lbs .42 lbs 9.937 lbs! .03 lbs .93 lbs .72 lbs 1.06 lbs 3.84 lbs A very blessed week at: 17.031 lbs! Annual Total: 163.598 lbs

Garden Update!

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2.76 lbs of tomatoes/chilies. 1.125 lbs of tomatoes .531 lbs of cucumber .84 cherry tomatoes and Anaheim chilies 1.45 lbs of tomatillos This week's total: 6.706 lbs Annual Total: 146.567 lbs!!!!!!!!!!

Garden Update - The Pumpkin is Turning!

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Our biggest and pumpkin (yes a little scratched up) is turning orange if only ever so slowly!  We are bummed to only have two pumpkins growing this year but extremely hopeful that he will be ORANGE in a week...we are counting down to Halloween over here! .69 lbs of produce .234 lbs of basil 1.02 lbs of tomatoes .35 lbs of chilies .56 lbs of tomatillos .53 lbs of cherry tomatoes Total weight this week: 3.384 lbs of produce! Annual Total: 139.861 lbs

How to Grow Garlic

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 Here are the simple steps we used to grow our own garlic! (Let me just add it had the best flavor ever)! Start with a bulb of garlic - just buy it at the grocery store, please do not waster your money on bulbs from any gardening center. Break each clove off. You will get a better crop if you use only the large cloves. Push the clove into the soil - pointy side up. You can plant it in a box, in the ground, or in a pot! You don't need to peel it after it is separated just stick the whole thing in. Make sure it is in the soil. Then water every few days (unless it is over 100 then every day would be better)! In a week or two you should see little garlic sprouts! Keep watering every couple of days - you don't want the soil to completely dry out  but nor do you want it to be a swamp as the garlic clove could mold. For big full heads of garlic plant sometime in the fallish months (Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec) Then harvest sometime between J...

Tomatoes A Plenty - Weekly Weigh In

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Our asparagus plant is growing like crazy and I am thinking these red balls mean it is getting closer to time to cut it down for the winter.  Next season I will take pictures of how we are growing asparagus (and we might even get to eat some next year!)  But for those who don't know ( I sure didn't) it looks like a crazy fern and is a forever plant (seriously it lasts around 30 years) so you just cut it back each year and then next year it will grow in!  Now for our weekly weigh in: 1.138 lbs of cucmbers sweet sweet cucumbers! .406 lbs of basil and tomatillos 2.06 lbs of tomatoes and habeneros .609 lbs of cherry tomatoes We also had two onions, more basil, and some roma tomatoes that the hubby needed for bruschetta - so he cut them and used them not even stopping to think about weighing them....oh well! Our total week's weight is: 4.213 lbs Annual total: 136.477 lbs!

Garden Update Minus Pics!

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So sorry folks but the above picture is from a few weeks ago and I have no new pictures for this week.  Our Goddaughter was born last week and we left the camera at the hospital following her birth (on purpose)...I don't mind one bit at having not had it!   Our total weight though (yes I weighed it just didn't photograph it) is: .412 lbs + 3 lbs + 1.12 lbs + 4lbs Which consisted of cherry tomatoes, basil, roma tomatoes (galore), 2 nice big cucumbers (plus lots more coming) and some onions! For a total weekly harvest of:  8.532 lbs! (this is thankfully heavier than Audrey's birth weight)! Our annual total is:  132.264! Wholly guacamole - we haven't harvested any pumpkins and none of our fruit trees bared any fruit this year - what is going to happen in the next few years when everything is producing!  Ahhhh I cannot wait to be able to can and freeze and can some more and give lots away and I even jokingly (semi) told the g...

Garden Update!

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Our White Pumpkin Is Growing Quickly. The orange one is slowly catching up. We pulled out some tomato plants that had blight. Soooo ready for fall crops like brocoli and cauliflower! 1lb exactly! .11 lbs! 1.08 lbs. .98 lbs! .492 lbs .789 lbs Total weight: 4.451 lbs! Annual Total: 123.73 lbs of produce! Look for my upcoming post on how to grow your own garlic!

Tomato Worm Invasion, Pumpkins, & More!

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This is a tomato worm. We were invaded this weekend by a dozen tomato worms. Thankfully only two tomatoes got eaten - the rest was plants. He is a mighty looking "worm". On the other front - our pumpkins are growing - yahoo! This one is actually twice as big today as yesterday. We decided to pinch off all flowers and buds on this vine in hopes of quickening his growth - so far so good!  .828 lbs! .703 lbs! .734 lbs! .75 lbs. Too bad he didn't taste good - at all! .094 lbs! 1.22 lbs! .422 lbs .74 lbs! We let him get a little too big and he wasn't as juicy as he could  have been but still great for our first ever cucumber! 1.04 lbs! Weekly Total: 6.53 lbs! Annual Total: 119.281 lbs of produce!