The garden is doing well this year. This week we started harvesting kale, chard, zucchini, dandelion greens, and arugula. The melons are showing up and lots of baby pumpkins. The new lettuce patch is sprouted and going. All looks great!
So far we have been pulling the over sized or"ripe" weeds as feed. Yep... Feed. We harvest most weeds and feed the goats, plugs, and sheep. They love em and so nutritious. Once the weeds are mostly gone we start feeding the veggies. Timing works out well this year.
As always, we only use heirloom vegetables. We find them more hardy, more dependable, and capable of seed saving. Plus... The resulting veggies are just tastier and more generally prolific. Hybrids are a compromise on some way...
Here are some pics...
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| Kale patch |
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| Red chard |
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| Green chard... The bug's favorite |
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| Zucchini patch |
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| Gray zucchini ready to pick |
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| Watermelon Patch |
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| Baby Watermelon |
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| Another Baby Watermelon |
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| Pumpkin Patch, some areas are becoming impassable! |
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| Baby Pumpkin with bloom in full beauty |
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| An even babier pimpkin.. |
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| Hunter showing off the extra large pumpkin leaves |
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| The Crenshaw Melon patch, slowest to get going, no fruit visible yet, but lots of blooms. |
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