Still harvesting...

Look at the size of this Daikon radish! It's almost as big as my kid. Remember how excited I was when I pulled up my first Daikon this past spring? Well, I'm over it. I don't like them that much and I don't really know what to do with them, and I don't think that I'll be growing them any more.


I'm still getting nice baskets of food. I just love the colors. And you know, I don't really miss summer any more, fall has so much of its own beauty to offer.

We're thinking ahead towards a really big garden for 2010. For the nitty gritty details, click here.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Sun Is Out!!!!

I managed to get out with the camera yesterday. Here's a summary of the general state of things.

The broccoli plants are just gigantic. I can barely make my way through them. I'm still harvesting heads, and every plant is putting off numerous side shoots.


The collards aren't looking too good.

I'm still battling cabbage worms. YUCK. It looks like of the 6 cabbages that I planted, I'll end up with two good ones. Better than last year, when I got 0 of 6....

Turns out I can grow a carrot!!!! And a weed, but let that pass....

Brussels sprouts are forming!!!

Here's yesterday's bountiful harvest.

What's going on here with the technicolor collard green leaf?

Oh, and here's something interesting. Those broccoli plants that some creature ate? They're growing back!!!!

Checking in...

Well, it has rained almost constantly since I posted last Friday, and I've been out to the garden once, last night, to pull out a small head of romaine for dinner (in the rain). Finally, today, there's nothing coming down out of the sky, so I plan to get outside and check things out.

On the indoor front - all my pepper plants are dormant, and/or have developed aphids - they are so not going to make it through the winter. My eggplant is finally dying too, and no, I never did get to eat an eggplant this year. Sigh. After all of that. Oh well. There's always next year. I'm not sure if I will grow the Hansel again. They were much smaller than I thought they would be, or maybe they shouldn't have been so small, and I could never tell when they were ripe. I'll be working on my plan for next year soon. I've been collecting my thoughts on this.

The fig tree we bought a month or so ago and have indoors is still doing fine. We have a few herbs and an aloe inside the vestibule with a grow light. I'm thinking of trying spinach in there in a shallow pot. We'll see. I've been eating kohlrabi, and rutabega, and lots and lots of broccoli. I know I need to get out there and harvest broccoli today....

Ah...November!

This is what I woke up to on Tuesday...lovely foggy morning. This is not sarcasm...I really love the fog we get down here.

I've had some good harvests this week. Carrots, spinach, collards, chard, kohrabi, rutabega, and still getting bell peppers.

I'm sorry to say that our great pepper project has failed miserably. None of the pepper plants survived indoors - that is, they're not dead, just going dormant - which means, we're not getting peppers from them anymore. Today I actually BOUGHT some jalepenos for the chili I'm making this weekend. It REALLY bummed me out to have to do that, because if we hadn't messed so much with all of our big, healthy, and heavily producing pepper plants we'd still have tons of them because we haven't had a frost yet. I wish I'd preserved some peppers this summer. I will DEFINITELY do that next year. Looks like I'll end up with three or four heads of cabbage - my first time!

The garlic is coming up!

This colander is the makings for the roasted root veggies I had a few nights ago for dinner, all from the garden! Every single one! Whoo hoo!!!!