22 Trees: Harvest Monday 7/9/12

I always love coming back to the garden after I have been away, and seeing how much it has changed. Was rewarded with a pretty large harvest. Pictured below is a fraction of the overall haul. Cucumbers are in and TPW makes the best pickles around. Lots of tomatoes from four of the plants, however the others are heavy. Strawberries are everywhere, they never make it into the house, even got a few plums off of the trees. Peppers, both bell and hot, are starting to change color. Avocados are plentiful, looks like my squirrel eradication programis working. Didn't lose many

Basil is looking good, I keep them mostly in pots because it get sooo hot here, I did try basil from seed this year and have a few small plants starting.

Repurposed one of Ed's old ladders. No way that I'm going to trust my life with this old thing, but the beans are climbing all over it! A few of the corn stalks have some pretty good size ears of corn on them.

All of the pumpkins that I planted from seed look good but they are only putting out male flowers, even with me pinching them off, however the volunteer pumpkins that I have around the garden all have fruit of various sizes.

How quickly Maggie goes from farm dog to house dog when the weather gets hot. She is practicing to be a leisure model , getting pretty good at it.

A little introduction.

We moved in on December 18th 2009, we are a 1/4 mile from a major southern california freeway, but are trying to make the urban homestead thing work. We have spent a lot of time getting things back in order. We have 22 fruit trees, hence the name, and a small plot set aside for a garden. We have 4 chickens: 2 Americauna, 1 Jersey Giant, 1 Barred Rock, and one 8 month old puppy named Maggie. With the help of the boys, and my very patient wife, I am trying to farm this little plot of land. We'll see...

4 comments:

AnonymousJuly 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Oh, what a cute dog!

That's a good re-use of an old ladder! Hopefully you're pumpkins will start doing the right thing :)
AnonymousJuly 10, 2012 at 10:16 PM
That ladder is looking better and better out there! That's a nice harvest to come home to!
Mary HysongJuly 11, 2012 at 7:16 AM
Your dog makes me laugh! I have an old ladder but haven't put anything on it this year; other years it's been a mountain of morning glories. What a great looking harvest as usual! What are you doing about your squirrels?