Garden Harvests - August 5, 2013

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This past week was exciting because I harvested my first potatoes that I have ever grown.  I have always wanted to grow them, but this year I actually planted some Kennebec white potatoes in my coca cola cooler planter box.  I harvested about 7 pounds and the potatoes were decent size.

We have eaten them all week, and they taste so good.  I made home made french fries, potato chips, and garlic mash potatoes.  I am considering replanting them for a fall harvest.

Freshly dug potatoes


Almost 7 lbs


Here they are all clean and ready to go.


Nice pepper harvest this week too.


A few more tomatoes

Garden Harvests - July 23, 2013

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I am still around even though I haven't been blogging.  My garden is not gonna be much this year, partly due to my neglect, but partly because of rain.  It rains every day it seems.  While the last two years were so dry, this year has more than made up for it.  This one post shows all my harvests for the whole year.  There will be more to come, but it won't be much. 

So far this year, I have a grand total of 10 pounds of harvests, and here they are.

Habanero Peppers


Batch of tomatoes, I have had a few more but not many.


Hungarian Wax Peppers


Bell Peppers


Yellow squash

Garden Update - June 3, 2013 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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I knew this year was going to mean a smaller garden and a year of rebuilding, but boy I sure do miss my other garden.  It is clear that the process of creating a quality garden soil from scratch really worked better than I realized.  This year I had to resort to the one size fits all approach of getting soil from a sand and gravel yard.  It was decent soil, but it is clearly inferior to what I had before.  It is also clear that I won't be blogging as regular as before.  I am averaging about once a month, and I would like to post at least once a week.  Maybe if I start getting harvests, that will motivate me to post.

Do I have a garden...yes.
Will I harvest anything from it....we will see.

Let's start with the one bright spot, the Kennebec potatoes in my coca cola cooler.  I have been adding soil as they have grown and this is how big they were two weeks ago.


Look at these things, I swear they grow a foot a day.  I can't wait to see if get some good potatoes.


I have my first tomato baby of the season.


Here are the 12 tomato plants.  They are growing, but they aren't as robust as last years.


Now some of the ugly, here are my squash and zucchini bed.  Plants are small and weak.


Out of 12 plants, I have only one zucchini.


The bees aren't doing their job of pollinating the flowers and they are just dropping off.


Here is my pepper bed, you can see my new fence in background.  I have stained the entire outside of it and I think it looks good.  Now I have to do the inside.


Hungarian Wax Pepper


Yellow Bell Pepper


Habanero blossom


Picture of entire garden.