Update on the farm

The weather has been getting cooler, but did you know you could still be growing and planting vegetables?
The fall crop of chard and radishes that were planted just over two weeks ago are thriving. Scott is removing the tomato plants from the garden bed, and replanting the bed with a fall lettuce mix. And the Waltham Butternut squash will be harvested for the next few weeks.

Red Meat Radish and Daikon Radish

The first Waltham Butternut Squash harvest of the year

And now for some fun garden photos:

Eggplant flower

Ring of Fire peppers

Purple Top Turnip in the ground

Purple Top Turnips for sale

Changing seasons

As seasons and the weather change, the farmer or gardener adapts and changes as well. The raised bed that was so lush with different vegetables was recently full of dried leaves and dying plants. Scott cleaned almost everything out and planted it with a fall crop this week. He planted the seeds of Rhubarb Red Swiss Chard, Red Meat Radish, and Daikon Radish.

Ready for clean-up 8.12.09

Planted with fall crop (the plant left standing is lemongrass)

Second harvest

Swiss chard, arugula, and some radishes were harvested today. Yum!

Arugula in the garden on June 23

Harvested arugula on June 29

Radishes in the garden on June 23

Harvested radishes on June 29

cute little radish