Farm photos
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luzulaIt is Midsummer and everything is growing so fast. Have some photos!
One out of five of my grafts that took. There were so many that failed! I don't know what I was doing wrong with them, even after reading up on mistakes to watch out for. : (
The almond is doing well! Not pictured: the nectarine that is all deformed with leaf curl. I feel bad for it--apparently we ought to have removed those leaves early and then treated it with some sort of fungicide.
The overwintering parsnips from last year in all their flowering glory, which will give us seeds this fall.
Flowering swede/rutabaga, which we stored in the root cellar and then planted in the spring, to get seed. Like the parsnips, they are biannual and flower in their second year. We did the same with a beet variety.
This gooseberry bush is richly rewarding us for freeing it from weed competition last year and manuring it this spring.
Have you ever seen such magnificently lush garlic? I think not.
The tunnel, with tomatoes, cucumbers, melon, aubergine, etc, and with basil and salad inbetween. It's doing well, but we want be so much earlier with these crops next year!
I don't know what on earth that artichoke is doing to bloom already!
Some of our earliest salad, saved to grow for seed. It is annual, but of course bred to be slow to bloom, so for now it's just slowly swelling in the corner, saving its strength.
Celery and fennel, both new crops for us.
Squash, corn, more squash, tomatoes, and potatoes. Thank you, America. The second row of squash are naked-seed ones, grown mainly to get seeds to eat.
We learned from last year's mistakes, and this year were able successfully to grow potatoes in hay.
Sweet lupins, which I've never grown before. Most are Lupinus albus, but to the left is a Lupinus angustifolius. Excited to taste these!
The household pole beans (runners to the right and ordinary beans to the left), with E's radicchio in the background.
Bringing in the hay. You can just see E's tshirt and arm behind one of the haystacks. Apparently he was timing himself and came back all sweaty and triumphant that he had scythed a row in five minutes. I am also scything, and it is hard work! I am keeping the muscle ache in check with daily sessions with my massage ball.
The rye, now taller than me!
More of our experimental beds of grain. From the right it's buckwheat in the foreground and wheat in the background, then a polyculture of oats and peas, then barley, then oats. Except the oats didn't come up well--but this pea variety apparently can stand quite well on its own, so that's good to know.
One out of five of my grafts that took. There were so many that failed! I don't know what I was doing wrong with them, even after reading up on mistakes to watch out for. : (
The almond is doing well! Not pictured: the nectarine that is all deformed with leaf curl. I feel bad for it--apparently we ought to have removed those leaves early and then treated it with some sort of fungicide.
The overwintering parsnips from last year in all their flowering glory, which will give us seeds this fall.
Flowering swede/rutabaga, which we stored in the root cellar and then planted in the spring, to get seed. Like the parsnips, they are biannual and flower in their second year. We did the same with a beet variety.
This gooseberry bush is richly rewarding us for freeing it from weed competition last year and manuring it this spring.
Have you ever seen such magnificently lush garlic? I think not.
The tunnel, with tomatoes, cucumbers, melon, aubergine, etc, and with basil and salad inbetween. It's doing well, but we want be so much earlier with these crops next year!
I don't know what on earth that artichoke is doing to bloom already!
Some of our earliest salad, saved to grow for seed. It is annual, but of course bred to be slow to bloom, so for now it's just slowly swelling in the corner, saving its strength.
Celery and fennel, both new crops for us.
Squash, corn, more squash, tomatoes, and potatoes. Thank you, America. The second row of squash are naked-seed ones, grown mainly to get seeds to eat.
We learned from last year's mistakes, and this year were able successfully to grow potatoes in hay.
Sweet lupins, which I've never grown before. Most are Lupinus albus, but to the left is a Lupinus angustifolius. Excited to taste these!
The household pole beans (runners to the right and ordinary beans to the left), with E's radicchio in the background.
Bringing in the hay. You can just see E's tshirt and arm behind one of the haystacks. Apparently he was timing himself and came back all sweaty and triumphant that he had scythed a row in five minutes. I am also scything, and it is hard work! I am keeping the muscle ache in check with daily sessions with my massage ball.
The rye, now taller than me!
More of our experimental beds of grain. From the right it's buckwheat in the foreground and wheat in the background, then a polyculture of oats and peas, then barley, then oats. Except the oats didn't come up well--but this pea variety apparently can stand quite well on its own, so that's good to know.
