13 Jul 2009
Summer Harvests and….Growth!
- Backyard Homestead..early morning…July 11th 2009
- Blue Hopi Corn
Lots of…growth…harvesting… and WORKING in the garden right now.
Loving every minute of it! Learning a lot and feeling GREAT.. being barefoot on the soil..with the plants.. under the sun!!
Here’s a few photos and video updates from the ”Dome” and “Gardens” so far.. this summer!
- Planting many fruit trees right now….fig tree “guild” around the dome
- Peach tree “guild” in the front yard
- Inside the dome…cucumbers and tomatoes vining up!
- “west side” of the “Growing Dome”
- Heirloom Golden Chard, Lacinato Kale
Here’s a few sources for great ”organic/heirloom” seeds:
…for sure…check out… seedsavers.org – an awesome source for heirlooms of all types!! This is also a great community and educational website with very informative forums!!
…below are a few other sources we’ve used this summer….
Golden Chard – highmowingseeds.com
Lacinato Kale - highmowingseeds.com
Blue Hopi Corn – groworganic.com
Organic Potatoes – groworganic.com
Biodynamic Cucumbers – groworganic.com
Musk Melons – johnnyseeds.com
Tomatoes - johnnyseeds.com
- Harvesting Cabbage
- Brassica harvest…cabbages, broccoli, kale, chard.
- Potatoes…and more green leaves!
- Potatoes…..!!
We grew potatoes in 15 gallon buckets…from a method we learned at growbetterveggies.com… here. It worked really well…and potatoes… it seems…just like tomatoes… have many different varieties…that are sooooo tasty and full of flavor!!
There’s something special in these pigments of color..
Not a staple food for us anymore…but fun to grow and eat!!
- Vertical Beds…Tomatoes in front and at the far end… melons.
- Vertical melon beds
- Melon blossom
- Melon…budding
- young melon…growing vertically on nylon netting
- Freshly harvested…Heirloom Tomatoes
- June “summer sun”…hitting the beds and dome
Below…are the ”June” videos…. of the ”Backyard Grow Project” and ”Growing Dome“
Happy Harvesting!!
