JoyoftheGarden

With the odd weather this summer, I was not as burnt out as I've been in previous years. We'll see if the weather holds out and my efforts into a fall garden will succeed...

Best harvest season ever.

These chicks were hatched on Aug. 7, delivered on the 8th and adopted on the 9th. So far so good...

Really should have harvested a week ago. Maybe I'll learn my lesson for next year.

Mid July is starting to show promise; lots of flowers and some fruits! Also some losses, some accidental some unexpected...

I've seen and heard it done both ways. Will it work for me?

On the surface, these potatoes stopped growing weeks ago. But this quick harvest tells a different story. The plants that still look relatively healthy will stay to grow on, stay tuned to see how the other potato containers faired...

Beans is the final summer staple I'm getting going at the end of June. Plus if you make it to the end or fast forward...Surprise comeback!

Why are vacations so exhausting, lol. Everything survived, but more protection is needed to make it to the end...

Vacations while homesteading is a new level of stress. The chickens will be fed, watered and sheltered automatically. The garden needs extra TLC if we're going to keep the critters out. Hope it all survives...

It's nice to finally harvest something substantial from the garden. Don't get me wrong, I love picking the greens when I need them, but this is way more satisfying.

Getting okra and melon seeds in, before much needed rain.

For the first time, I might actually have a fall garden. And it might be more successful than the many attempts at spring gardening. But first, we have to get through the summer. Already losing plants as I continue to plug more in.

The air quality is atrocious, but the projects need doing. I hope the radish are still edible. Feeling so accomplished getting the worm bin done. And the possibilities of the flowers is exciting.

I have worked very hard this season, getting more plants and making more spaces. Sometimes the journey is better than the destination?..

Chopping and dropping cover crop (clover, oats, peas, vetch, rye)

Sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes are taking over and these figs did not fare well this winter.

In the season of less stress, I am taking planting-out, slow and steady. This week was still cold hardy varieties. The warm season veg are not far behind...

Last mail call for a while, maybe. Filling up the raised bed took many days but now it's ready for plants. I have a little ptsd from the loss of my artichokes due to very likely the resident rabbit. So plants are going in slowly but surely.

Starting my irrigation journey with the Greenstalk kit and expanding my mycology library with Lions Mane from bristolmushrooms.com

Wine cap mushrooms and strawberries from: https://www.silvertreeforest.com/products/wine-cap-mushroom-spawn Edible acres video: https://youtu.be/M8lk12_KPOY