This year's peppers seem to be saturated with colour. I freeze peppers and then roast them in the winter. Yummm.... roasted peppers with olive oil and olives.
Beans are coming along nicely too. On Wednesday we harvested around this much for the food bank. I was amazed to find this many ripe two days later.
Sometimes you need to look under the leaves to see what is coming on. We've never had such a good pumpkin crop as this year. I am learning that pumpkins need far more water than I ever gave them in the past. This year's timely rains taught me a thing or two about gardening.
These pumpkins will still keep changing colour until they become a magnificent orange/red. Vif d'Etampes.
I believe these are Orange Summer Hybrid winter squash. First time for growing them. They will also turn a beautiful orange/red.
And, while we are on the them of orange/red ...... These dahlias still need more room than I am giving them.
White coneflower.
It's amazing I didn't catch a bee on these fragrant hyssop. Bees are crazy about them. And, they make great cut flowers.
Ammi. Last time I grew Ammi was around 25 years ago. Fractals in flower form.
It was a perfect morning for transplanting perpetual spinach (really a Belgian endive) and beets. The forecast was for an overcast day. They should do fine.
I planted dozens of Mesclun mix seeds for fall harvesting in their place in pods in the greenhouse.
When I transplanted the melon, winter squash and cucumber plants in late spring, I wondered if I'd planted them too far apart? Guess not. They are looking for places to run to.
It's nice to see the ground covered by leaves - little solar panels. I recently read Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture A New Earth by Charles Massy. He talks about the importance of the ground always being covered with plants. Each of those leaves are little solar panels that, through photosynthesis, transform the sun's energy into food, but equally important - they play a part in the storing of carbon in the soil. Uncovered soil is not good.
Our greenhouse experiment is coming along. No need for us to grow tomatoes to maturity there. I think the greenhouse will be a place for the first two steps - planting the seeds in pods and them planting them out for a few weeks in the greenhouse beds and then move them to the garden. The tomatoes in the greenhouse ripened no quicker than the ones in the garden.
Do you see those shelves on the walls? That's where the seeds start.
We will need to do some sleuthing to find our cucumbers on Wednesday.
I love the patterns on these melons.
And, more beets transplanted.
We are getting to the end of our blueberry harvest. These are viewed through the fine mesh of their home. This is the latest season variety that we have. I am guessing we harvested around 18 litres of blueberries this year.
I'll sign off with a view of the hardest working guy I know. He thinks it is fun to split wood in 29°C weather. Looks like we will not only have vegetables this winter, but we will be warm too.
“Regenerative agriculture therefore implies more than just sustaining something but rather an active rebuilding or regeneration of existing systems towards full health. It also implies an open-ended process of ongoing improvement and positive transformation. This can encompass the rebuilding or regeneration of soil itself, and of biodiversity more widely; the reduction of toxins and pollutants; the recharging of aquifers; the production of healthier food, clean water and air; the replacement of external inputs; and the enhancement of social capital and ecological knowledge.”
Charles Massy
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