July 27, 2012

Wow! July is nearly over and the fall planting season is here.  We are putting in

green and wax beans, peas, cucumber, radish, beets, kohlrabi, carrots, spinach, kale, chards and collards.

With the rains and cooler weather we have finished the weeding and cleaning up the

vegetable beds for now and are still trying to get the mulch down.  The garlic is drying and smells amazing on the front porch.

We harvested our first zucchini, green beans and okra this week.  The tomatoes are turning their respective colors…

We are planning more perennial beds to go with the red raspberries, horseradish, blue berries and asparagus.  These new beds will be lined with chicken wire buried in the ground to keep the baby bunnies and larger rodents out.  The fall garlic (7 kinds) will be planted there as well as more brassica  (cabbage, broccoli and brussel sprouts) and some greens.

For the farmers market we will have garlic, onions, potatoes, beets, okra, kohlrabi, green beans, and zucchini and a few sunflower blossoms.  

I am new to cooking okra so any favorite okra recipes will be appreciated.

Amanda and Dan completed the run for the guinea fowl this week and they are slowly trying it out.   They were in a small cage on front porch for a couple weeks.  We are enjoying watching their growth.  We are trying to decide our long term plans for them at the moment.