garden party! (link up)

Please join me in a little garden party!

leave a comment with a link to your garden's latest doings post or just a comment!

we're harvesting a lot of good stuff these days.


a few jems.



eggplant is such a beautyful thing to grow.


a green jem



some butternut jems





all kinds of these lushious beauts.





that wheat I "thinned" from a crop this spring! Its a nice thing to have in the garden
as a symbol of the pioneers of Saskatchewan.




cantaloupe!
I've never been successful at this before, but its looking good this year!





Costata Romanesco zuchinni - a nice heirloom variety.




and then there's the brassicas.

I learned about the cabbage moth when the garden was new. well, that was one thing!

despite the little white moth turning the brassica's leaves into fishnet stockings,


my broccoli did great. we had loads of it! Cabbage too.
the kale wasn't able to make it


BUT. now its the dreaded flea beetle! they're the new brassica killer.

completely infested my broccoli, cabbage, kohlrabi, kale and cabbage.
So i had to pull them all out.



poor brussel sprouts. wasn't able to salvage.




I did save this beast tho!

In my family, when you harvest a cabbage, its time for...

BORSHT!!
(an old passed down recipe HERE...)

this pile of veggies means borsht:


and a sneaky hand going in for a veggie swipe!!




do you have a battle with any garden pests this year? any organic remedies?

what are you cooking with your garden's fruits?

happy harvesting!

around the town farm thursdays

a big HEy Ho to Farmama for her Around the Farm Thursdays!
They have such an inspiring market garden farm!
the dream.

Until I have my farm, this town farm is going to teach me a lot!!

Its Brand new name is the Seedy Soil Gardens!

This year is my first year doing a very small
CSA (community supported agriculture) vegetable box.
The Garden Share box.

So, I've planted lots - although some days it seems I don't really have much... but. if I harvest things regularly and replant, there will be plenty for all!

I have planted Corn, spaghetti Squash, potatoes, beans and carrots in my neighbor's Huge garden space!

then this is the main garden area:





here's 1/4 of a square bed with tomatos, lettuce and broccoli (and its protector -oregano)





beets just newly ready for greens!





peas starting to climb!





Zuchinni getting its first babies!




Strawberries that I brought from our home last summer are doing excellent!





beans and cucumbers together. the Cukes will climb.





butternut squashes being guarded by the radishes!






Okay, then there's the Brassicas. Broccoli and Cabbage here:



In Saskatchewan there are so many "cabbage butterflies" and little beetles that I have been told not to bother planting any brassicas. Last summer I learned their wrath. they'll kill yer whole crop in one afternoon. so I have interplanted with lots of summer savory, oregano and sage... but the elders of the area say that you just have to powder them. (chemical) which I wont. instead, i am going to try these floating row covers



I have just learned that this problem is so intense here in the grains growing country because the same butterfly moths love canola, which is grown ALL over around here. So their populations are doing quite well in the summer.







After buying a whole wack of big transplants from a greenhouse, I needed to make a new little tomato garden bed, which I did last night while baby was sleepin'.





here the happy tomatoes are planted and mulched.






Tis the season of dirty cracked hands and stained black feet.
pulling out quack grass roots in the evening with the doves hoot hoot hooting away at me.
planting more seeds in the hot sun with the bees checking in.
its the simple joys!

:0)


what are you growing?