At the beginning of September, I knew I needed to do a roundup for August, but it seemed like one thing after another kept coming up, and I delayed it so long I figured I’ll just do a roundup for August and September. And here it is, late on the third of October, and I’m just going to do the most basic of roundups. This gardening season hasn’t been the best, and I really just want to get started on next year. I still have carrots and potatoes and some other things left to pick, but I’ll probably save all of that for a year end roundup.
Anyway, the good
stuff. As I mentioned in a previous post, our chickens have started laying.
During the month of September, they laid 81 eggs, of which 80 made it to
the house. They’re still a bit smaller
than typical eggs, but it’s nice to have fresh eggs again.
Towards the beginning of
August I finally started getting zucchini, and by the end of September I’ve
picked 46. So we’ve had fried zucchini
and zucchini bread and given several away to my siblings.
I’ve picked all of our green
beans, and shell beans, peppers, and onions, which did pretty well. Just yesterday I picked our third and final
pick of broccoli. Our tomato harvest was
… okay. Not great, but not terrible.
Terrible harvests were kidney
beans (few), pears (3), and the one tree for applesauce, which only made enough
for three, small servings of applesauce.
But those were better than our corn, which did nothing.
Part of me wishes I could
just jump to next spring to try again, but there’s a lot of work I need to do
before then. For example, my raised beds
settled way more than I expected, so I need to get them filled back up. Hopefully, I can get that done before it
snows. We’ll see.
