About six months ago, I cleared a overgrown mass of privet in the convent’s land behind our house to create a new food forest. Apple trees were ordered and planted, along with a bunch of other fruit trees. This quickly became the first round of a multi-year war against weeds. With the warm, wet weather, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pumpkins’
Update on our food forest
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged apple trees, convent, convent garden, cucumbers, food forest, lavender, oregano, pumpkins, rockmelons, rosemary, sage, summer, watermelons, weeds on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Three little pumpkins in a row
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged pumpkins, summer on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now that the holiday season has passed, it’s probably time I got back into the blogging. Let’s kick things off with our first three pumpkins out of the garden. Our small variety have gone great, with three more pumpkins on the way. Our large pumpkin plants seem more intent on taking over the world than [...]
We have pumpkins
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged pumpkins, spring on November 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week I was in Northern California for work, and pumpkins were everywhere. Piled up in fields, filling fruit vendor’s stalls, on window sills and beside doors. It was definitely the season for pumpkins. I was therefore excited to come home to some pumpkins of our own. I stashed seeds in corners throughout the gardens, [...]
Bush beans coming up
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, pumpkins, spring on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Despite the earlier bad news, the first of our bush beans are pushing themselves forcefully out of the ground. They are a week late, so perhaps seed storage in the fridge put them into a dormant state, rather than killing them outright. One lonely pumpkin has also come up, which I’ve supplemented with two others [...]
Planting record: beans and pumpkins
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, pumpkins, spring on August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I did some gardening this morning before work, and for my planting record, this is what went into my new garden beds: Bean, Violet Queen Bush Bean – harvest in 60d Bean, Sex Without Strings (dwarf butter bean) – harvest in 87d Bean, Gourmet’s Delight (dwarf bush bean) – harvest in 60-70d Bean, Stringless Pioneer [...]
