It was a slow start to the growing season this year, but things eventually warmed up and the garden finally produced some excellent food.
Potatoes were the first things harvested in late August. I had a mix of white and red potatoes that were excellent along with fresh cod and beer. I made some potato patties with grated potato and onion mixed together and fried in butter for 6 minutes per side. Very good snack food.
The tomatoes suffered a deer attack early in June, so they did some recovering before finally producing some tasty fruit. The plants from the Saltspring Island market were fast growing and very hardy.
My melons didn't do so well. Those vigorous tomato plants shaded out my watermelons and my passport melons were overtaken by the MONSTER pumpkin plant. Oh well, next year I will give them more space.
As always, I suggest mulching early and mulching often. That means getting out there and tossing on layers of seaweed (kelp), and straw, and whatever else you can scavenge to toss onto your beds. This will protect your soil over the winter and allow nutrients to seep into the ground from your mulch, instead of leaching out and leaving you with barren ground.
Enjoy the Photos.
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| Hot peppers in oil from the greenhouse, with a pumpkin on my driftwood bench. |
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| First apples from my yard tree and a pie. |
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| Sunrise on my garden. |
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| From the garden into the pot. From the pot into the pie! |
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| Caught this cod from the kayak. The heads get buried deep in the garden. Yum! |
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| special sideways apples |
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| My friend and his daughter with a jack-o-lantern that we carved |
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| chanterelle mushrooms, apples, cucumber, pumpkin, and squash |
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| pumpkins, squash, onions, and sunflowers |
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| shaggy manes and a fairy ring of mushrooms |
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