June 15, 2015
My daughter wrote her first garden update last week. She may be writing more – I’m a little too frazzled to get my stuff together. Most of what we harvested this week was not photographed. However, we are harvesting…
- blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries (a handful each week right now)
- new potatoes
- small beets
- small carrots
- spinach
- baby lettuce
- peas
- celery
carrots & celery…and the 4yo 🙂 
Root vegetable hash w/carrots, beets, and potatoes 
I think it’s officially blueberry season 🙂
We are also seeing baby cucumbers and baby zucchini!
With all of that, all I can say is PLANT MORE! PLANT MORE! PLANT MORE! I thought I was planting more than enough this year. I planned it by writing down what we eat in a year and then doubling it, to make sure we have enough to share. I think if I had quadrupled it, I would have been more on target. Ah well, there’s always next year.
This week, we weeded the cabbage patch, around a blueberry bush, and around the sweet potato patch. I planted all of my home-grown sweet potato slips (orange) and I received all of my purple sweet potato slips (3 varieties) from Sand Hill Preservation this week.
The kids are getting tired of weeding every day but the good news with a BTE garden is, once you weed and then cover with mulch, there is no need to weed again until next spring. Not too shabby. Of course, as I’ve said before, the main places we are weeding are those that were covered in fresh horse manure. We officially finished all of those places this week. They included all of our raised beds, the broccoli bed, the tomato/squash bed, and the cabbage patch.
From now on, weeding should go by quickly. Good thing too because I won’t have my helpers next week — they’re going to be at my parents’ church’s VBS. They are SO excited. I have mixed feelings as next week I won’t have any help harvesting blueberries! AAAAAH!
Chickens
Since we moved the chicken runs away from the oak tree, we are on chicken watch. So far so good. However, now that the weather is getting hot (consistent 90s), the grass is slowing down and we have to figure out a way to feed the chickens without paying for more feed!
We are also on chicken watch for our latest broody. The kids are going to be gone when she hatches out the latest biddies (of course). Lots going on!
What’s going on in your garden? Check out what others are up to at Daphne’s Dandelions 🙂
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It sounds like you are very busy. I envy those blueberries. They look fabulous. I think they only way for me to get blueberries is to cover my plants. But the are the ground variety and just don’t seem worth it for the berries they produce. So I guess I’m feeding the birds again this year.