Garden Notes 2011
08/21 Sunday: 21 quarts of Spaghetti Sauce canned (and 1 more eaten) + xx pints Peach Jam - non-garden day.08/20 Friday: 24.5 quarts of Spaghetti Sauce from the garden, 6 quarts and 7 pints of Kosher Dill pickles, and 12 pints of Mild Salsa. All from the garden.
08/13 Saturday: Canning 1st batch of Spaghetti Sauce from the garden. ALL vegetables in it are from our garden plus the Oregano, Basil (fresh) and Garlic are from our garden.
08/08 Monday: Canned 12 pints of Hot Salsa. The Broccoli is coming on strong again since it's rained the last couple of days (finally). The Pickles are blooming hard again too. A few Spinach plants have poked through.
08/07 Sunday: Canned 12 pints of regular Salsa (all ingredients from our garden - even the spices) and 14 pints of Hot Pepper Mustard (w/3 Cayenne peppers for a little more kick).
08/01 Monday: Dug the potatoes. Got 10 gallon.
07/31 Sunday: Canning the beets we had to pick yesterday after the deer ate all the tops off. There's a half dozen or so tomatoes that are turning red after yesterday's haircut. If it doesn't rain we'll be digging the potatoes since they're dead, and butchering the last 2 rows of tomatoes that didn't get scalped yesterday.
Spinach
07/30 Saturday: Apparently the Spinach was ready - the deer ate it ALL, along with the swiss chard and fancy lettuce! Apparently they don't care for regular leaf lettuce. Picked half a bushel of yellow wax beans in the morning and gave the tomatoes another hair cut. Some of them are over 5' tall! We got 2 ripe tomatoes. We put down a couple more landscape timbers between the driveway and the front garden. I tilled up the green bean area and planted spinach. Spinach takes 40-45 days, I tried to ensure quick germination by burying a soaker hose before I planted the rows and put the rows in close to it. After letting the soaker run for about 30 mins I hit it with the sprinkler until the top of the soil was thoroughly dampened. Time will tell.
07/27 Wednesday: Left the soaker hose on ALL night (quite by accident). The Back Garden is nicely watered. Missy canned 4 qts 14 pints of Kosher dills and froze 7 bags of yellow wax beans. We had blueberry pancakes with blueberry syrup for supper - mmmmmmm. We picked the green beans in the front garden and pulled the plants as they're dying from the heat and drought.
07/26 Tuesday: Picked another 1/2 bag or so of pickles and some yellow wax beans. Peas and Broccoli froze (we're up to 33 bags of broccoli). Blueberry freezer jam made as well as blueberry syrup canned.
07/22 Friday: Picked another 1/2 shopping bag of pickles, 3 or 4 zucchinis and some secondary broccoli. Missy's making pickles today.
07/21 Thursday evening: Missy and Kim canned 21 pints of pickled beets from our garden.
07/21 Thursday: Haven't had any measurable rain on top of the hill since early June. Don't know how long we can keep watering it. Zucchinis are suffering the worst, except for the strawberries and potatoes. I dug a hill last night and didn't get near the yield I was expecting.
07/20 Wednesday: Picked more green beans and our first crop of peas. Dug the rest of the garlic and all of the onions. Wild blackberries in front of the house are ripe. 6 packages of peas and 10 packages of green beans frozen (approx 1-1½ pints/pkg).
07/19 Tuesday: Picked a 5 gal. bucket of pickles.
07/18 Monday: Kaitlyn and I dug 2 rows of garlic.
07/16 Saturday: Our lonely Red Raspberry plant yielded a couple of ripe ones that we managed to get before the birds.
07/12 Tuesday: Picked green beans.
07/11 Monday: Picked and put up broccoli.
07/06 Wednesday: Missy made 2 quarts and 5 pints of dill pickles from those picked the last 2 days. This is just from the 4 hills in our garden. Picked 9 more zucchinis! Had to water the garden for the 1st time. Luke and Missy put up another 50' of permanent fence.
07/05 Tuesday: 1st broccoli head picked! 4th load of mushroom soil delivered and extra cauliflower, peppers and broccoli planted.
07/04 Monday: Picking pickles! Tom moved some rocks around in the lower garden with his tractor to give us more gardening room.
06/28: First Zucchini picked! Peas started to blossom.
06/27: Beans started to blossom.
Thursday 05/26: Cleared some more Beech brush from in front of the back garden. Missy planted another 3 doz tomatoes.
Wednesday 05/25: Hoed a 4" deep trench through the middle of the garden to help drain the water off the top of the mountain! Planted 8 tomatoes.
Tuesday 05/24: Landscaped a ridge out of the back yard with the tiller and a rake.
Sunday 05/22: Planted Hungarian Wax Peppers, Big Bertha Sweet Peppers, Cayenne, Jalapenos and more Broccoli.
Saturday 05/21: Planted Broccoli, Cabbage, Tomatoes, Zucchini, Acorn Squash, Bush Pickles, Green Beans, Peas, Sweet Basil, Thyme and a couple other spices.
Friday 05/20: Finished the wildlife net fence around the back garden.
Wednesday 05/18: Rain, rain, rain. All I did was measure the back garden 24'x48'.
Tuesday 05/17: Added 100' of wildlife netting fence around the back garden.
Monday 05/16: Cleared brush from fence perimeter around the back garden.
Sunday 05/15: Bought 5 flats of plants (broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, squashes, cucumber, etc.). Came home and stretched 100' of fence along the top and back of the back garden.
Saturday 05/14: Tilled the manure into the back garden even though it was really too wet so we won't lose the nitrogen. It'll also help keep the clay spots from clumping back together.
Friday 05/13: Spread manure over the edge of the yard that we finally reclaimed from clearing the site for the house and seeded it. By the sound of the rain tonight the seeds' probably headed for the diversion ditch. Missy finished spreading manure on the back garden this evening before the rain.
Thursday 05/12: Finally Finished landscaping the edge of the yard into something that will at least be mow-able. Missy planted potatoes. Onions and Garlic are up and doing well.
Wednesday 05/11: Planted about 50' of beets.
Tuesday 05/10: Spent 3 hours tilling the back garden (width-wise) for a measly 4 tiller-widths. Dug out a wagon-full or so of rocks, mostly about 1/2 the size of a basketball hoop.
Monday 05/09: Spent the day tilling more of the top edge of the ditch off at the edge of the yard and tilling over the buried brush pile to level it out into something mow-able. Burnt a PILE of brush in the fire ring. Had to extinguish it with the hose (twice) before I felt it was cool enough to go to bed.
Sunday 05/08: Cut down the beech trees at the edge of the yard to make room for more yard and fruit trees. Started tilling off the top edge of the diversion ditch there to smooth it out into something pleasing to the eye and so we can mow it. Burnt a pile of brush in the fire ring.
Saturday 05/07: Cut up the logs that were in the brush pile at the edge of the yard. Burnt a good portion of them and the brush that hadn't composted yet.
Monday 05/01: Tilled the front garden to level out the terrace against the log we installed yesterday. Missy and I spread manure on the top 1/3 of the back garden and did more tilling. Missy planted the onions in the front gardens.
Sunday 04/30: Luke and I pulled the blow-down out of the front tree-line and placed it in the front garden to aid in my terrace design. We began stacking rocks in front of it to give it support against the pressure from the dirt.
Friday 04/28: Had a dump truck load (~10 yard) of manure delivered for the back garden and yard. $120! That's a $25 increase over the cost in March! Fuel prices are killing us!
Tuesday 03/22: Had a dump truck load of manure delivered into the front garden. Spent the next 3 weeks spreading it out and putting in landscape timbers to keep the garden out of the driveway and dress it up a bit.
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