Sweet potatoes 2020 !!!

 

Here I am with about 2/3 of our sweet potatoes for this year.  My husband and I dug them up today.  It always needs to be done before a frost and I don't want to wait until the last minute.  The other 1/3 is purple sweet potatoes.  I am so grateful for all of this good food!  We brought in about 118 pounds.

"Bloody Butcher Dent Corn"

This is a picture of me standing in front of our "Boody Butcher Dent Corn."  It is an heirloom variety and I plan to use it to make cornmeal.  We measured it at 12 feet tall!  I bought the seed from www.rareseeds.com

Tiny Tip - if cutting onions makes you cry.....

If you are cutting up fresh onions, and the volatile oils that escape make your eyes burn and water, grab a fresh cucumber and munch on it while you are doing that.  I promise it will help - a lot!

Garden, July 5, 2020

Garden, June 28, 2020

Update on Garden 2020

Garden 2020

This year, we have cut the size of our garden to about a third of what it has been for a number of years.  Since it's just me and my husband here, we simply don't need to work that hard anymore!  I love the new size.  He does plan to make another simple greenhouse for me so I can harvest greens through the winter and soon I will start building the soil in that area.  Many things are already coming up...  we had a late freeze and I had to replant tomatoes and peppers, but everything is happy now.  Here is a picture of how it looked this morning.  :)