Update on my garden

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When I planted pole beans this year I staggered the planting so we would have a steady flow of green beans during the summer. Our first planting began producing beans at the end of last week and we have already enjoyed two quarts of delicious and tender beans. The other plantings are catching up and should keep us in the beans through most of August.

We’ll be digging up some of our red potatoes this week and I’m interested to see how those did. Our onions are ready for picking any time we need one. We’ve also been getting a couple of cucumbers every other day or so to add to our homemade sweet pickle brine.

Not much rain has fallen here lately (per usual during this part of the summer) so the sprinkler has been running every day. Earlier in the spring our tomatoes were looking a bit yellow and sickly so I gave them a few doses of compost tea and they not only bounced back, but they look bigger and better too.

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Christy Welch July 28, 2008 at 8:53 pm: Hi Andrew & Lori,

Your garden looks to be doing great. I just found your blog and am enjoying it quite a bit. We are big into eating local and trying to grow our own. It’s a lot of fun to make jam and pickles and all that fun stuff. It’s nice to see someone else we know into it too.

I’m enjoying going to the farmer’s market quite a bit. Tecumseh has a nice one, although it’s small. Manchester has a nice one on Thursday nights too. Still waiting for Clinton to get one, but I’m not holding my breath.

Keep up the good work!

Christy