Grape jelly from the fall food forest!

Butternut & Freaky Fall gourds, potato harvest + pickling & jelly making

Blueberry, broccoli, squash harvest & other garden happenings

Squash and corn garden

Bean garden 

Blueberry harvest & broccoli, squash from the garden.
Had the squash and broccoli fried then pureed as a soup with potatoes and leeks.

Not sure what this is but I ate it like it was zucchini.
Cooked it fried with rice.

Grapes to make some wine or jam, not sure yet

Rose of sharon looking tropical and poised

BIG Garden Harvest in late August (Peaches, Grapes, Mushrooms, Tomatoes)

Watermelon, Grape, & Strawberry harvest

In the last few days, we harvested watermelons, grapes, and strawberries.

august 16 2015 grape & watermelon harvest

August 13th carrot, cucumber, butternut, birdhouse gourd harvest

Charleston grey variety watermelon

strawberries, august 16th harvest

Growing Grapes, Papaya, & Figs in zone 6 (VIDEO)

In the video provided I give you a tour of my mini gardens which are growing Peas, Swiss Chard, Cucumbers, Potatoes, and Tomatoes. Also I show you that the Grapes are finally filling out, and will be ready to harvest later in the year. I was worried that the grapes had been eaten by birds, since it looked like they had been stripped.
The Fig trees are finally setting leaves and making new branches. To my grateful surprise, when I added compost to the new Fig, I must have had a lot of Papaya seeds added to the soil. So, Papaya seedlings sprouted up. I will take up the seedlings to transfer them to pots, then keep them inside during the winter months.