Finisihed the harvesting at the garden plot

The garden plot is empty!!  We technically had until Thanksgiving Monday to have it all out.  I went one night almost two weeks ago and pulled everything when they were predicting killing frost.  As it turned out, we got rain instead but I will still very happy to have removed everything in ideal ground conditions.  The carrots, beets and parsnips came out easily and were not too caked with dirt.  It did take a few days to get them all cleaned but I have four bags of carrots, one bucket of beets ( Neighbours got a few and I put the extra on Kijiji for free and they were gone within an hour) and two bags of parsnips.  I have a full bucket of potatoes as well.  The weather has been really nice for drying the vegetables!!!  You can see in the photo that it was quite late by the time I was done but that is the way it goes when you are a "farmer".  

Therese

Garden plot!

Just a photo of my garden plot.  I cleaned up all the weeds last week and then took a photo!!!  One little stub of a cucumber plant about 3" tall is all that has survived.  Not sure it will have time to make anything of itself but I will keep encouraging it!!  The beet leaves are still a bit ratty from the hail but everything is bouncing back.  I thinned my beets and carrots.  The few parsnips that came up are doing well and the carrots I planted in between are about 3" tall.  Not sure they have time to do much either but if nothing else they will be snacks in October!!       Therese

My first tomato!

This is my first tomato from the garden at home.  It is an early variety called Stupice!!  Looking forward to more!!

Therese

Garden Plot

I have rented a garden plot for growing my root vegetables.  It is 10' x 20' and I have planted three different potatoes - blue, yellow and red, zuchinni, beets, parsnips, carrots and onions. Everything is now up and I just put in my tomatoes the other day.  So far, not too many weeds and I am hoping to stay ahead of them as the season goes on.  It is about 3.5 kms from home - about a 40 minutes walk - shorter on my bike!!  There is a cistern for water which is wonderful - you can just see the shadow of it in the photo - real close!
Therese