No Plant Left Behind

We're moving...right when my vegetable garden is poppin. But, in honor of my husband's new teaching job, I'm instilling the No Plant Left Behind Act. I've dug up over a dozen of my smaller plants and am throwing them in the U-haul on Friday. Hopefully I'll be able to get them into the ground within a few days. I'm taking strawberries, tomatoes, basil, eggplant, zucchini, hops, blackberries, red onions, grapes, pumpkins, winter squash and a sunflower.



It makes me less sad to leave all my hard work behind. Goodbye beautiful garden.

July Harvest

So much to harvest, so little time... Tim and I will be moving back to Redding in a few weeks. I'm really excited, but sad to leave my garden! So, I'm harvesting everything I can this month. Ready or not, here I come. I take that back- almost everything... I'm going to attempt to transplant a few things like the winter squash and pumpkin that were just started... but much of the garden will be left behind. Boo.

So here's what I got this week: Potatoes and carrots. My poor little carrots fought against the rocky soil here in Covelo- that's why they're all deformed.


Two types of lettuce, chard, basil, flowers and tomatoes.

Zucchini and radishes (along with more lettuce and chard.)


Dill weed, parsley, spinach and peas. The temperatures are now too hot for the spinach, so it's gone to seed. The bottom leaves still seem good, but does anyone know if you can eat the tops once they've bolted?

When the Gardener's Away the Veggies will Play

I was out of town for three weeks-end of June to mid July. I was a little apprehensive about my garden and the watering system I hooked up. Apparently it did OK! I used simple seeping hoses from Walmart. Easy to set up, and they get the job done. Too bad they don't pull the weeds and prop up overgrown plants!