We've been busy around here during the month of June and now July! Summer's moving so fast! Since mid-June we've harvested broccoli, romaine, cabbage, peas, celery, onions, some potatos, cauliflower, one red tomato!, swiss chard, garlic, kale and wine. We don't have weight totals for the week this time, but we bottled 6 cases of wine and harvested 165 bulbs of garlic. For the weight totals of other veggies have a look at the bottom most list in the side bar on the right.
Here's a randomly organized list of photos over the past couple weeks. That's how life seems to be happening around here lately! For details please read the captions.
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| 4 lbs of kale. |
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| swiss chard |
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| silver skin |
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| One of five rows. We harvested Mt. St. Helens, Kabar, Aglio Rossa, Siberian and Silver White. |
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| C. James with Papa digging up the garlic. |
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| Q. James too. |
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| Our niece Layna getting the job done! |
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| Bags of garlic and celery |
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| Hanging garlic bulbs in the basement |
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| white grape wine ready to bottle, ready to drink! |
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| The boys giving their best effot to cork a bottle! |
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| racking, racking, racking the wine. |
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| That should last a while! |
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| Celery stock galore! Who said soup in the summer time was a bad idea? I've been living on it for 3 days! Thanks Belle for sticking it out with the celery! |
Amazing work, my Friend! In awe of your garlic bulbs. Guess we are slacking off over here with the booze production. (I'll get right onto planting some more fruit!) I mean really. What is a homestead without the genuine deal. :D
ReplyDeleteI wish these were our grapes! We got them from a u-pick vineyard up the road. Unfortunately they use pesticides. On the bright side, our stuff is sulfates free!
DeleteWhat a Harvest Jody !!! lots of helpers to pull the garlic the bulbs look a very good size. Love the pics of the boys helping dad with the garlic and the wine.
ReplyDeleteThanks Andrea. Our garden helpers are great. This is our first year growing garlic. We're very excited!
DeleteI picked my garlic yesterday, but only about half of what you did. I find it is quite enough. I still haven't finished last year's garlic.
ReplyDeleteWe harvested on Saturday. It must be true: great minds think alike! We probably grew more than we need. We tend to do that! Our thought was that we would save cloves for planting this fall.
Deletethat's one amazing harvest of garlic!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenny! It's our first.
DeleteGreat garlic harvest and that wine looks like it turned out really well too. Love the boys helping out with everything. They are just too cute.
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura, we've had a great time with the boys the past couple of weeks. The wine is very tasty!
DeleteEverything looks fantastic! It looks like you have a wonderful bounty!
ReplyDeleteYea, we're really pleased. Hopefully we can get them into storage and make them last all year.
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ReplyDeleteWonderful produce! I haven't planted garlic in years, but I should give it another go. This is the first year that our onions look like they will produce. Mind you it is still very early for us (way up north!) and I'm currently waiting for the strawberries to ripen - the next few days forecast sun, so hopefully I will be overrun with those delicious red things!
Our onions are half-and-half. Some are big others are suffering. Glad to hear yours are doing well. I'm very jealous about the strawberries. Ours came and went so quickly! I hope you're completely overrun. They're wonderful, aren't they?!
Deletewow looks like you have been busy!! everything looks great
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteIt looks like you have great helpers! I love to garden with my boys.
ReplyDeleteThey're a little reluctant to plant and water, but they know a good harvest when they see one!
DeleteWhat a great looking harvest and your boys are so cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mary!
DeleteLove that you utilize your slaves, I mean CHILDREN, in the garden work. I do it too :) I'm drooling over your garlic harvest and mentally planning to plant MUCH more this year.
ReplyDeleteDorothy, I think we planted too much! We'll have to be creative about how to use it.
DeleteWhat amazing harvests! Your kale and garlic look wonderful (and so bountiful)! Congrats1
ReplyDeleteThanks Bee Girl. Like the rest of us, we're working on it!
DeleteWow! You have been quite busy! Everything looks great! And yes, Bob has been reading quite a bit by Wendell Berry as well!!
ReplyDeleteI love to hear that! Wendell Berry is my hands-down favorite author concerning all things human, at least all things human this side of glory!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great harvest this week for you. Love that you make your own wine. Great blog!
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