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Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Kitchen Garden Exists

Yes, we do have a kitchen garden this year.  Thanks to my lovely Ben, I had the day off.  So, I finally had some free time to take a few photos of my favorite garden spot.

Nasturtium, Borage, Hops

Beans, Carrots, Peppers, Corn

The Pumpkin Patch, Wineberries on the right

Wineberries

The birds have helped themselves to the first ripe wineberries.

Winter Squash

Sweet Corn

Peppers

Golden Zucchini

Artichoke

Scarlet Runner Bean

Provider Snap Bush Bean

This is a complete list of the items growing in the kitchen garden at the moment:

Beans
Christmas Lima
Scarlet Runner
Black Eyed Peas
Provider Snap Bush Bean
Beurre De Roquencourt Wax Bush Bean

Berries
Raspberries
Wineberries
Blackberries
Strawberries

Squash
Golden Zucchini
Queens Island Blue
Young's Beauty Pumpkin
Dill's Atlantic Giant
Butternut
Long Island Cheese
Australian Butter

Melons
Golden Honey Watermelon
Amish Melon

Peppers
Ancho
Hot Portugal
Wisconsin Lakes Red Bell
Orange Bell
Early Jalapeno
Red Ruffled Pimiento

Eggplant
Vittoria
Imperial Black Beauty
Ping Tung Long

Carrots
Dragon
Scarlet Nantes
Purple Haze

Basil
Sweet Basil
Italian Large Leaf

The Others
True Gold Sweet Corn
Giant Ground Cherry
Artichoke
Lettuce
Hops

Flowers
Borage
Nasturtium
Sunflower
Zinnia
Snapdragon
Cleome
Cosmos

Tomatoes and beets are noticeably missing from this list.  We have planted 125 tomatoes so far, and they are located in our newest production field with the beets and other crops. 

Now that we are growing the bulk of our vegetables behind the blueberry orchard, we have a lot more space to play with in the kitchen garden.  I'm super-pumped about the pumpkin (and melon/winter squash) patch.  I can't wait for the sea of green that is to come.  I'm sure the hens are excited about all the squash bugs I'll be collecting for them!

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