garden link up

 

Welcome to the fifth week of Garden Life on NOH! I am thoroughly enjoying seeing all the progress in everyone’s gardens so far…and I’m hoping that some of you have been inspired to do a bit of gardening next year as well, even if it’s just a few pots on your patio. Heck, you can even do some gardening for fall. In fact, I need to check out my seed situation again and see what I want to plant for fall. Broccoli, carrots, lamb’s lettuce and spinach are just a few great cooler weather crops. And since our temps lately have only been in the 70’s, it’s starting to make me think that the summer we had back in April/May was it.

We are starting to harvest a few things right now. In fact, last night I made pizza with some of our fresh eggplants on it — SO good… might even make it again for lunch!

I’m pretty sure we’re going to have to do something with our jalapenos this weekend. We’re thinking about stuffing a few of them and  throwing them on the grill…anyone have a recipe to share for that? Or for pickling jalapenos? We still have tons of homemade jalapeno hot sauce that we made two years ago, so I don’t really want to do that again just yet.

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The onions are also coming along. I don’t think they will be huge, but they should be nice. And for our first year, I think we did ok considering we got them in the ground so late. Might try these in the back garden next year though.

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The sunflowers are also about to make an appearance which I’m definitely looking forward to since we have lots of them.

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And the wonderful, lovely tomatoes are finally starting to ripen…it’s what we’ve been waiting for since we moved here. And so far rarely gotten to eaten since we’ve always run into some sort of complications. Now we just have to figure out where we can grow even more tomatoes next year…the greenhouse in the new aquaponics bed will hopefully be an option.

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In fact, we actually have a bunch of yellow tomatoes that are already ripe and several more on their way! I’m looking forward to trying these.

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We also learned this past weekend that squash tend to root deeply and this is probably why the zucchini did nothing for us and the other plants started to mildew. Since they were just swallowing up our little beds in the courtyard anyway, I think we’ll try to find a safe place fro them in the back next year with plenty of eggshells around them to keep the slugs and snails off.

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Although I forgot to take a photo of our huge grape vine that is just covered with grapes (which we have to figure out if we will juice, make wine from or something entirely different), our little Riesling vine has probably tripled in size since we put it in the ground a couple months ago. Now we just need to see about getting our supports up for it so it will stop trying to eat the Christmas tree.

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Harvest list this week

  • 0.6lb/265g jalapenos (with probably twice as much still on the plants, I just took the huge ones)
  • One 222g bell pepper
  • Two eggplants (624g)
  • Yellow tomatoes (224g)
  • Three cucumbers (1373g)
  • Stevia leaves (26g)

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What to join in the garden fun and link to your own blog or images online?

Here’s how this works:

PLEASE READ THESE GUIDELINESespecially if you have never linked up before!

  1. You are free to join the Garden Life link up at any time. You can also skip a few weeks and then come back. It’s entirely up to you.
  2. Please link directly to a post about your garden, a recipe, a tutorial for gardening, an inspirational idea, etc that relates to GARDENING — not your main blog URL.
  3. Please only link to your own blog or photos hosted online.
  4. You MUST link back to No Ordinary Homestead or a Garden Life link up post in your blog post. This way, if someone else wants to join the fun, they can. You can either link with text or using the Garden Life badge.
    Below is a code for the badge above. Just copy and paste this code into your post or save and upload the image to your blog:
    <a href=”https://www.noordinaryhomestead.com/garden-life-link-up/“><img title=”garden-life-300″ src=”https://www.noordinaryhomestead.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/garden-life-300.gif” alt=”garden link up” width=”301″ height=”301″ /></a>
  5. I highly encourage you to visit other participants and leave comments. This is a great way to meet new friends and become inspired about your garden! I try to visit all the blog participating as well 🙂

That’s it! Share your garden with us by linking up below!

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