Back to work in the garden

Since we have been back home, there has been quite a bit of harvesting going on. I picked 1 gallon of jalapenos and froze them until I start making salsa.


Picked enough greenbeans to can up 11 pints. The greenbeans are grown in raised beds done in the square foot garden method.


Fours ears of sweetcorn have made their way into our bellies.

One lonely Roma tomato has turned red.


Yesterday we dug up about a 10' row of potatoes. This is what we got:


Here is the big-daddy of all the taters we dug up. I sat it up against a quart canning jar to show it's size.


Then we hit up the one tater tire. We were anticipating quite a harvest from this finally this year. Last year the soil was so dry inside the tires, so this year we stuck a pvc pipe down the middle of the stack and watered down inside the pipe. The soil was nice and moist all the way through as we dug it up. Guess what we found...not many taters...again. So dissappointing! If the other 2 stacks that are still green don't do any better, we won't try this method again. Here is what we got out of the one tater tire stack. They are in a 1 gallon bucket.


Last night I got ambitious and started pulling the onions that were ready. I grow them in raised beds done the square foot method. Here they are sitting on the porch curing.


Here's the biggest onion so far: