Green Envy

I purchased a new compost from Ohio Mulch that is called Green Envy. I had never heard of this before and discovered that Ohio Mulch works with various grocery stores such as Krogers and restaurants to compost their fruit and vegetable waste. So far I have purchased 16 bags to add to my raised beds this fall. They were having a special: buy one bag and get one free. We would never be able to produce this amount of compost. In comparison to their Green Envy bags, we produce about 3 bags worth. .  

Last of The Tomatoes

I am starting to cleanup the garden and I pulled up all of the tomato plants, and harvested what was left on their vines.

I still have one raised bed with kale, carrots and basil. The basil has done very well this year and I have frozen plenty of pesto for the winter. The cabbage crop did not do so well.. As I stated before, I had an overabundance in the cabbage department last year and this year zero. Eggplant is just finishing up and has been a winner.

Most gardeners complain of too many cucumbers and zucchini. I just do not have very good luck with them and may not plant them next year. Projects moving forward: cleaning up the garden so it is ready for spring planting!

Tuesdays With Dorie: Baking With Julia- Blueberry Crostata

Although this was to be a raspberry and fig crostata, I decided to create a blueberry filling instead for this months TWDBWJ. The crust was cookie like and needed to be rolled out on parchment paper and peeled from the paper. A tad of a fussy crust. For all the fuss, I did not think the crust was that great. Way to overpowering. Would I make this again? Most likely not. I prefer a very good pie crust

instead.

Garlic Questions

I planted garlic for the first time and had a wonderful crop of Music garlic. It is a hardneck  and I would like suggestions for other hardneck garlics I should consider growing in Southern Ohio. Thanks as always for your words of wisdom.

Random Pics From The Garden

I thought you would enjoy pictures of the harvest and what I am currently growing for fall.

Lots of garlic and tomatoes have been harvested.

I should have a bumper crop of eggplant.

These beans were planted a couple of weeks ago and are my third crop.

Zinnias

Basil and this is the second crop.

Lemon on my Meyer lemon tree. I will probably only get 2 lemons this winter. Last year I harvested 11.

 Cucumber are just coming in.

 The third planting of basil. I plan to freeze lots of pesto.

I just planted chard, kale, a second crop of carrots, lettuce and radishes for fall.

Garden Harvest

I took photos of the harvest from the garden over the weekend and somehow deleted those photos. I had a full colander of beans and about a dozen carrots. So here is a new harvest. My first tomato, at least a half a dozen onions and plenty of yellow and green beans.

Great Article on Freezing The Garden Bounty

I am a fan of Margaret Roach and I read her blog and have weekly programs downloaded on my I pod. Here is a great blog post from Margaret click  here for her article.  This is all about freezing fruits and vegetables.