Spring flowers and hoop tunnels garden tour video

Garden harvests & gardens tours (videos)

Oh-so many things are fruiting in the garden. The berries, cucumbers, and squash everyday. Here are the blueberry harvests so far this week...

I'm fighting all the animals and insects in the meantime too. The beetles are ripping into the grape vines, cherries, plums, peaches, and the nectarines. So today I sprinkled all spice, nutmeg, chili powder and bkack pepper and everything I could. We'll see if this is effective.

The pears aren't bothered surprisingly. But the birds are finding their way in through cracks in the netting to eat blueberries.

Anyway...I'll post the video tours of the gardens below...

3 sisters garden, potato grow bags, and bucket tomatoes:

Home orchard and permaculture garden of melons, cukes, squash, peas, tomatoes and peppers. Everything in the gardens besides the potatoes were all started from seed.

Here is the video of the hardy kiwis as well. Last week I made a trellis arbor out of an old swing set that I recycled.

Will have squash soon & beautiful parts of the no till garden

Row of Yellow squash fruiting

Rows of Tomatoes fruiting with basil

Row of peppers

Watermelon, cantaloupe and tomatoes 

Cucumbers finally flowering & beans sprouted

Beets, cabbage, lettuce, cilantro 

Tomato, fig harvest & fig jam + pics of the broccoli garden

I posted some pictures of the spider webs that are magnificent works of art when the morning dew rests on them.

Also, since the nights have been cold, I made sure to cover the broccoli plants before then.

corn. turnip, greens growing on mound

I didn't taken a picture of the peas in the garden, but I have peas ready to be picked. Here I have a tomato and fig harvest.

The figs were processed with some apples that I bought from an orchard with organic sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla. 

fig jam that's left after eating several jars already!

I bought fuyu persimmons from the store-they taste like pumpkin pie!

Fall Mulching food forest/garden + scarecrow halloween + harvest (VIDEO)

Pumpkins, Kajari, Watermelons, Cucumbers Trellis Garden VIDEO

Cukes, melons, squash, greens hugelkultur garden & potatoes in grow bags (video)

Garden harvest dinner photos of Swiss Chard greens & Radish

Some things I have been up to this week in the garden include compost mulching around plants, transplanting tomatoes, sowing more seed, and of course harvesting fresh food for dinners. I harvested blueberries, raspberries, radish and Swiss Chard today. With the Swiss Chard, I sauteed with a little water and olive oil, with garlic, salt, black pepper, sugar, and red wine vinegar. Then I sliced half of the radishes I harvested to eat raw on the side. Then I cooked some golden potatoes (not from the garden) to have with the garden food.

At the beginning of the week, I drove the truck to get compost and shoveled it around all of the plants in the garden. Because I had a truckload of compost, I was able to distribute it on two rows of potatoes growing in bags and compost over 10 rows of plants. The 10 rows consist of hugelkultur mounds in addition to rows of holes dug with compost. Digging holes and adding compost to the holes is the lazy gardener's method, and I highly recommend it! The hugelkultur mounds are also easy to maintain, and I consider them to be perfect for the gardener who don't want to use a tiller. With these rows, of course, you need to consistently mulch. In between the rows, you'll notice in the photos that I have been cardboard mulched between rows and then have a layer of leaves on the cardboard.

hugelkultur mound of Zucchini & crookneck squash

mound of crookneck squash

 Because the hugelkultur mounds tend to lose soil because of wash off, I have composted around the mounds three times so far this year from early spring to late summer. This week I have also started collecting long thick pieces of wood to contain the soil around the mounds.

Cherry tomatoes

Cucumbers (left) & Tomatoes (right)

squash & cucumber on trellis

cucumber/pumpkin/artichoke

watermelon/cucumber (right) & honeydew melon & butternut squash (left)

row of cucumber/butternut/acorn squash

 This was a picture of the mound of greens before I took out the radish, mesclun spicy mix and collards. I wanted to get the radishes out because some were splitting. And the mesclun and collars were getting eaten by beetles and worms, so I took them out to replace them soon.

Late June garden update + grapes, pears, peaches, berries

variety of Tomatoes growing

Broccoli and onion growing

Anne yellow raspberry

Sugar pumpkin & other squash growing around trellis

Sowed Butternut squash, acorn & cushaw in row with trellis

Christmas lima beans growing on trellis

Burdock growing

Buttercup squash

Aronia, mulberry, & goji berry plants from Baker Creek Seeds

Cape gooseberry growing in pots

Luffa gourds growing in pots

Hidatsa beans planted in pots

Apple gourds growing in red and orange pot with pepper seeds sown in small pots

Peppers sown in pots with cucumber in hanging pot

Cucumbers growing around trellis