My goal is to learn all of these wonderful skills. So that when we finally get our little plot, that is all ours, we too can live like this. For now I am waiting for the yummies from our container garden.
Rhubarb bouquet…love it!

oh, any book suggestions for learning how to garden year round?

A perfect summary of my goals that I’ve never come close to fulfilling. — “Planting successive crops at the exact right moments so the harvest keeps coming.”

My gone-to-seed spinach is nearly a yard tall, and the greens next door are 1″ babies. I’m attempting watermelon (again), and the broccoli (planted in March!) has no sign of producing food still.

Are you planting anything new in July for fall harvest?

Oh! Those toes! So adorable.

And the pullets. And the rhubarb bouquet. And the bouquet of potatoes and beets and radishes.

Gorgeous.

Gypsy: I am not sure where you live…but I like to look at the seed catalogs to get ideas. Territorial Seed Company has a winter catalog that I got not too long ago. I will try, for the first time, some crops for the winter: an overwintering carrot, snow hardy greens and some beets under cold frames. And, of course, garlic.

John: I know! It is hard and I am not nearly an expert. As far as planting stuff in July, I don’t think so because there really aren’t any seeds that can germinate in hot soil and if they muster the courage to do so, they will bolt in the western Montana heat…right? I could totally be wrong. I plan to harvest like a mad woman in July and August. And, in the fall, collect the potatoes, beets, squash, greens and carrots.

Patia: I know! The toes! It makes me want to wake her up right now to nibble on them.

Rhubarb bouquet?….could set a new “green” twist to weddings …..I like it. The bridesmaids could carry carrots, broccoli or whatever! I just gazed at your garden today, in person with Alice; it is a thing of beauty.

xoxo, me

That strawberry picture is making my mouth water. For the first time I actually pulled off the flowers on my new strawberry plants in the hope that they will produce better.

This year i’m going to start some fall crops under grow lights in my chilly basement. I know lettuce and spinach transplant pretty easily.

diana

So sorry to hear about the death of someone you loved. Hope the reunion was healing, not distressing–it all depends on the family!

I’m super-impressed by your garden. I also admire the toes–but my real question is, What is she standing on? Looking at that picture makes me feel dizzy, because I can’t figure it out.
–Kate

I admire your determination. I used to grow more vegetables. This year, some lettuce, tomatoes, asparagus and peppers are all I’ve grown.

Beautiful veggie garden. Sustainability, feeding one’s family, is a good will gesture to the Earth.~~Dee

big smiles on the toes meet chicken coop wire…oh, the fruits of your garden and all your labor look so delicious and fresh and…well, how food is supposed to look. Your tummies must be so happy!

Ah… I can’t wait to figure things out as well as you have. I have such good intentions… maybe one day they will turn into the kind of harvest that you report? I hope!

That’s my dream, too – to be a good contemporary homesteader. To eat everything I grow – whether fresh or canned for winter – and to work out a garden plan so that I’m using every spot as efficiently and ecologically as possible.

Of course, I’m nowhere near achieving it, but that is the life of a gardener. You’re always working toward perfection.

Also – I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOUR RHUBARB. Oh the strawberry/rhubarb pies I’d make. That is my all time favorite combo and it’s SO expensive here. No one grows rhubarb here.

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The toes are standing on the top of the chicken run. My bug loves to sit above the chickens and watch them cluck around.

I definitely do not have things all figured out. But I suppose if I did I’d be bored, right? Just today my spinach is bolting the last bolts and I don’t have a things planned for that plot. Off to the farmers market this weekend to see if I can score some half priced leggy tomatoes to throw in the ground.

It is a funny thing about rhubarb, Finny. We bought our house five years ago and it had been a rental for ten years before that and wasn’t watered. Ever. So we landed a double lot that was all compact dirt, dandelions and three live plants (somehow survived): wild roses, peony and rhubarb. At least there is something we can grow better in Montana than California!

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