After warming up in late July, we have had a steady harvest and burst of outdoor recreation, which has put blogging on the back-burner.
There has been a steady stream of salad greens and potatoes going into the community garden stand at the Sointula Resource Centre.
We harvested 100 bulbs of hard neck garlic. They are now curing in the wood shed.
We ground up the garlic scapes in a food processor and froze them in ice-cube trays. They make great pesto for pizza topping or pasta sauce.
Fuzzy the cat is very interested in the strawberry harvest. We ate our fill and then filled some bags with frozen berries for a nice winter treat. We even put out a container in the market stand. There will be more next year as we continue to expand the strawberry beds in the orchard.
Here are the beets on their way. We have picked a few extra beet greens to put in the salad mixes that are sold in the community market stand.
The jolly green giant shelling peas are so high we will need a ladder to get the top ones soon!
The St. John's Wort is in full bloom and bees are lovin' it.
The bees are also really enjoying the wild flower mixture from West Coast Seeds.
The "Shelter Logic" shed converted to a greenhouse has been a real success.
It's a jungle in there with the tomatoes reaching the ceiling on the left and the squashes supported by tripods on the right. The greenhouse beds are mulched with grass clippings collected from our neighbours down on the Mitchell Bay beach. Thanks Bob and Liz!
We are starting to harvest our first sweet peppers in the greenhouse.
Here are some onions laying down telling us that they are ready to harvest. Wilma the cat agrees and is always guarding her people in the garden.
We aren't taking taking any chances this year so we are curing the onions in the solar dryer. After more than a decade the vapour barrier poly finally disintegrated so we replaced it with fancy kevlar plastic that was left over from fixing the truck canopy.
The oat straw ground cover is doing very well this year. Linda likes to make teas out it.
The greenhouse pumpkin dropped from its vine quite early, so it is now ripening in the sun on the deck next to our giant garden gnome.
Every day, there's some love to be found in the garden!
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