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Harvest Monday And Other Things
| Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:04 PM |
Harvest Monday Recap
Each Monday, Daphne’s Dandelions hosts “Harvest Monday” where everyone submits links to their blog posts summarizing their harvest for the week. It’s fun to see what everyone else is harvesting from gardens in so many different regions. Check it out and join in!
We are still mostly using stored and preserved items for our meal preparation but did have a little bit of fresh harvests as well. This past week we used storage items (garlic, onions, potatoes), frozen items (peppers, green beans), home canned items (diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, dill pickle relish, dill pickles), and some fresh harvested items (lettuce, chives, and parsnips).
Harvest totals for the week of January 10th through January 16th (rounded to the nearest ¼ pound).
- Chives 0.00 lbs (not enough to round to ¼ lb)
- Lettuce & Greens 0.25 lbs
- Parsnips 1.00 lbs
Total For Week 1.25 lbs
Total Year To Date 1.50 lbs
Eggs harvested this week - 37
Other Things
Saturday I got the onion seeds started. Planted up two flat packs each of Siskiyou Sweets and Valencia onions. This is the first of many seeds to be started for the 2011 growing season. To make room for these and the rest yet to come, I transplanted out the lettuces and spinach that had been growing in the shop under the lights into containers in the unheated greenhouse. I just tucked them in where ever I could find room next to the other plants currently growing in there. Most of the lettuces ended up interplanted with the swiss chard plants.
Sunday my husband and I tackled a project together - reworking a salvaged gate we had on hand to have it work as a gate for our deck. The salvaged gate came from when we installed the smaller of the two covered chicken runs. We took the gate off permanently so that the smaller wood framed run opens right into the larger metal framed covered run. It has been sitting in our shop unused since we constructed the coop and run last May. The gate as constructed was about 2 inches too wide and about 4 inches too tall for the current use we had in mind.
We partially disassembled it and carefully cut away the extra height and width. The metal grate was also trimmed down in size. We then reassembled it and reattached the metal grid. Attached it to the post on the deck and gave it a coat of blue paint to match the deck railing posts and it was done!
All the materials were on hand, so this Sunday project cost us nothing more than our time and some imagination.
Next Saturday I plan to start the ultra early tomatoes. Things are going to get crowded under the grow lights in a hurry but I am happy to get the seed-starting season underway at last.
Laura
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Categories: Harvesting, Transplanting, Garden Structures
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Thomas - Each year, I anxiously wait for the gardening season to get going again. The short break during the holidays is nice but by the end of it I am sick to death tired of being indoors and ready for some garden time.
Mike - The gate did turn out nice and did not take us too long to rework. It was a nice project for us to do together.
hsheather - The green you are seeing are some very large azalea and rhododendren trees that fill up the back area there and surround my garden. Come April and May they are a mass of very showy blooms. Potato onions are a great resource. The only thing I have against them is they are generally quite small onions but the convenience of planting small bulbs each fall for a nice onion crop is definitely worth it. I lost my seed crop two years ago to some fungus and have not replaced them. I should probably tend to that and plant some in the coming fall.
The gate is quite a resourceful project. Well done
Tasty Travels - Those are actually fat parsnips! No real tips to share on starting onions. They get much the same treatment as all the other plants I start - just an earlier start as they are slow growing initially and go into the garden quite early.
Thanks for the reminder, I should start some onion seeds now.
When you start tomato seeds this early, when do you transplant them out to the garden? Do you move the seedlings to bigger pots as they grow?
Ah, it really is time to start planting summer veggie seeds again - yippee!
Robin - Mid February is when the largest group of seedlings are started for me as well. Just a few items in January but it keeps me from going crazy with cabin fever!
Villager - Anything grown and harvested at home is usually better tasting. I am running out of room in the greenhouse containers but I don't think I have anything else to transplant out for a while.
mac - The ultra early tomatoes do not go into the garden any sooner than I usually would - mid April with protective covers. I repot them as they grow on - such that they are quite large by the time I do actually transplant them into the garden. My best harvest last year came from the ultra early started Siletz plants. It is more work to baby them along for so long - but I think with my short cool summer season - it is one of the few ways to get a decent harvest out of the plants before the cold fall rains arrive.
michelle - I will second that YIPPEE!
Oh, and 37 eggs in a winter week? How many chickens do you have again? I'm thinking 4 layers to maybe keep me in eggs during the winter. I really need to pick your brain! Whew.
Barbie - Custom modification!
VeggiePak - The blue is the same as the posts and steps on the deck but the deck railings were painted about a year and ahalf ago and have dirt and molds growing on them so the gate paint looks brighter as a result. It should mellow out to the same soon.
Sinfonian - I decided not to do the seed starting schedule as a separate listing that required updates regularly when I also keep the calendar going. Instead if you want to follow along the schedule with me you can check out the calendar entrys. I have the months of January and February entered and will do March and April soon. Trying to keep the maintenance on the site simpler for the coming year. To answer the questions about the hens - we have six. I purchased six thinking that we would lose one or two of the tiny chicks or later as they were growing as four is about the optimal size of flock for us but they all thrived and survived beautifully so we have six.
Having an abundance is a nice problem to have.
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What's Available For Harvest?
The following items are currently available for harvest in our Modern Victory Garden:
(Last Update - May 4, 2012)
- Chives
- Green Onions
- Kale
- Lettuces
- Spinach
- Tatsoi
- Rhubarb
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