Winter has arrived

Starting to clear out the plants that were frozen.

Clearing the beds of the frozen plants. Ace is keeping me company.

Several below freezing days in a row nailed the broccoli and cauliflower.

The beds have been cleaned. The 2010 garden has ended.

Fall Harvest

Broccoli heads ready for harvest just before the snow.

Cauliflower is later this year. Last year I had mature heads at Thanksgiving. This is not a fully matured head.

I am pulling all of the beets that remain from the second crop. The forecast temperatures for the next 6 days shows that the daily high will only be in the mid 30's. Today is December 4, 2010.

Harvest just before the snow. 14 heads of broccoli, 4 cabbage, a bucket of beets, and the 2nd head of cauliflower. I also cut 2 - 5 gallon buckets of curly kale and 2 of turnip greens.

Fall Harvest

Cabbages in the bed.

Broccoli ready to cut.

Fall Harvest

Cutting winter greens. The yield was 3 -5 gallon buckets of curly kale and 2 -5 gallon buckets of Seven Top turnip (less) greens.

Final job of the day was to pick all the tomatoes and peppers. Then take down the support frames, and pull up the old plant stalks.

Fall Harvest

Tomatoes, green-red-yellow peppers, beets, cabbage, and broccoli.

Fall Garden

October 17Th....broccoli, cauliflower, curly kale, and cabbage.

The broccoli heads are growing. It will be the middle of November before there will be cauliflower heads.

A nice bed of beets that are ready to pull.

The Roma tomatoes will cut loose and fall when they just start turning. They have been the best this year.

I am picking my tomatoes as they begin to turn.

This has not been a good tomato year. My big tomatoes have split and run all season. The Roma have done just find.

Fall Garden

October 4TH...

Green, yellow, and red peppers. Cabbage is planted with the other greens.

Broccoli, cauliflower, curly kale

Better Boy tomatoes

Roma tomatoes on the vine ripening.

Fall Garden

The last string beans have been picked. Beets, tomatoes, and peppers are still being harvested. Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and curly kale are growing.

Fall Garden

August 27
Late summer corn, beets, Roamer tomatoes, and green beans.

Setting out broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage for the Oct. - Nov. harvest.

Summer Garden

July was HOT and dry, but I kept the plants green. The tomatoes and cucumbers took a big hit. the Asparagus was steady. It was so bad the bees could not do their work.

Summer Garden

June 22nd

Newly planted beds of corn, beans, and lettuce.

Peppers & cucumbers

Still waiting for the tomatoes.

Summer Garden

June 16th.
2nd planting of beets, beans, 1st of curly kale

Straight neck squash

June 16th.

Waiting for the first tomatoes to ripen.

Spring Garden

Cabbage and 2nd planting of loose leaf lettuce

String beans on the left and squash in the center.

Tomatoes on the vertical frame and string beans to the right.

Spring Garden

Regrowth of early loose leaf lettuce after being cut. Sugar snap peas on the vertical frame.

Cabbage, red lettuce, & summer loose leaf lettuce.

Good Beets.

Onion bed.

Spring Garden

Strawberries at the left corner. Onions in the center. Beets are just left of center.

Frames set for tomatoes. Green beans very close to blooming. Sugar snap peas & lettuce in the center. Potatoes white with self rising flour to combat the beetles. Will NOT use Sevin dust. It is bad for the honey bees.

Great bowl of loose leaf lettuce...taste great too.