Category: Home Vegetable Garden
Vacation in August? Expect Garden Overflow.
| August 16, 2011 | Posted by Sharon under Family, Home Vegetable Garden |
Just spent a fun long weekend with grandparents in Nebraska, I came home with a few treasures from them. Two nice fermenting crocks will be put to use soon. I like Nebraska, I like my in-laws, but there is nothing like the mountains of Colorado. I am so glad to be home. read more…
Planting Garlic
| October 16, 2010 | Posted by Sharon under Home Vegetable Garden |
There are many types of garlic that one can get from seed catalogs and garden centers. The three main types are:
Honey bees are good for my garden!
| August 19, 2010 | Posted by sharon under Home Vegetable Garden |
Our neighbor has honey bees. I caught pictures of them on my corn. read more…
Let the Harvest begin!
| June 17, 2010 | Posted by Sharon under Family, Home Vegetable Garden, Life with boys |
We harvested and froze snow bird peas today. Brett loves to graze from the Garden. He was pulling the little peas from the pod and eating them. Little does he know just how good it is for him! - How to Freeze Peas
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Freezing Spinach
| June 7, 2010 | Posted by sharon under Home Vegetable Garden, How to freeze |
I was freezing spinach last night. This week I noticed something while out watering my backyard garden…
Darn my Spinach is already bolting!
(bolting = producing seed stalks, the plant stops producing leaves when it starts to bolt…. at least that is what I read.)
We have had some warm days here. I was not thinking and planted my spinach in a very sunny location. I’d have been smarter to plant where it was in the afternoon shade.
Oh well no loss. I harvested it all out. I read that if you cut the spinach off about an inch or so above the ground, sometimes it will shock the plant and it will stop bolting and produce more leaves. I hope it works.
I saved some spinach in the fridge for green smoothies or salads now. And could be found in my kitchen last night freezing spinach for next winter. Won’t it be fun to have green smoothies with spinach from the garden in December.
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Gardening in Colorado… an extreme sport.
| May 2, 2010 | Posted by sharon under Home Vegetable Garden |
” Gardening in Colorado may seem like an extreme sport”
Hmmmmmm…..
I think I need this book.
The Colorado Gardener’s Companion:
An Insider’s Guide to Gardening in the Centennial State
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I told you Colorado Spring is Fickle!
| April 29, 2010 | Posted by sharon under Home Vegetable Garden |
I did not see this one coming. I heard the storm last night and hoped that rain was coming in with the wind. This morning when I woke up, I was totally surprised to see this! And it is still coming down.
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My spring vegetable garden
| April 28, 2010 | Posted by sharon under Home Vegetable Garden |
Things are sprouting in the vegetable garden. But I must…. not ….plant my other vegetables for a least a week or two. Colorado spring is sooo fickle.
I’ve got baby spinach, baby peas, and baby lettuce sprouting. (pictures top to bottom) These pictures were taken a few days ago and the plants are already growing.
Here is my favorite garden chair…. you know why it is my favorite garden chair? My 3rd son the 14 yo went to the shed and got it for me cause he says “I know you like to sit and watch your garden momma” Isn’t he sweet.
I’m sure you can see from my close up pictures of the baby vegetables that our dirt is well….. you could say it is rough. Believe me we have added and worked on this ground. This is just where we live and gardening is a challenge to say the least. Water is the biggest chore… and it starts in the early spring. When everyone else is getting rain… I start dragging hoses.
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Spring Yard
| April 17, 2010 | Posted by sharon under Home Vegetable Garden |
My yard is sprouting and blooming. I love it.
Our beautiful Forsythia. Last year it bloomed like this and that very night it froze. All the blooms browned and died. It looked terrible until the green leaves came on. I hope it doesn’t get cold and freeze this year.
I planted this oregano last year. I was eagerly awaiting to see if it would come back…. and it did.
And here is my mint. There was no doubt about this one coming back. It is 4 years old I think and you can’t kill mint if you want to… but I don’t. I brushed away some of last years dead leaves to get a better picture… it smelled wonderful. Too bad I can’t put smells in the computer, you’ll have to use your imagination.
And our Rhubarb is going gangbusters!
The early crops of my vegetable garden is sprouting too. Lettuce, spinach, beets and peas. I’ll post pictures tomorrow.
I LOVE SPRING!
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Mutant Veggies
| September 23, 2009 | Posted by Sharon under canning, Home Vegetable Garden |
My garden is just about done for the year. The weather has turned colder and all that is left is a few Roma tomatoes that are half orange and I am hopeful but doubtful they will turn red.
I’ve been canning carrots and canning beets this past week. I froze the last of the peppers today and made a batch of orange rhubarb jam. Just for fun. It turned out really good!
It is always fun to see the variety of vegetables that emerge from this rocky ground here in the high dessert. Here are my samples for this year.
Poor confused carrots did not know which way to go in our clay soil.
Mutant beet
This came up with the beets. Uhm is it a turnip??
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