Monthly Archives: July 2010
How to Harvest and Save Seed from Kale
Take one kale plant, overwinter it in hoop house – kale is a biennial. In Spring let it flower and go to seed. Cut it down when leaves start getting brown, hang upside down to dry for months. When plant is fully dry and pods are almost bursting, stick the entire plant into a pillowcase. …
Tomatoes and Green Beans
This is one more long update. Life is so full it’s tough to find a moment to sit and write it all down. But here goes… Home-grown salads are a common fare nowadays: lettuce mix, beet “greens,” cherry tomatoes, onions, garlic scape dressing. I could throw in bell peppers too, but I’m letting them mature …
Raspberries and Other Harvests
Amie and I went to visit our new friends of the Freecycle comfrey, L and S, last week. Their raspberry garden was bursting with plump juicy berries. L helped Amie pick, she is so good with young kids. Amie was in seventh heaven, practically yelling with the fun of it. I chatted and picked and …
First Carrots, and Garlic
No, really. I already harvested carrots. Well, Amie harvested them: No doubt you’ve noticed that these are baby carrots. Baby carrots. I had let that bed go to weeds, and when pulling said weeds today found that carrots have much less purchase on the soil than weeds do, and they too came up. So after …