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August 24 garden

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Right now, my focus in the garden is to get my fall garden planted, while trying to stave off the squash bugs for long enough to harvest my winter squash and pumpkins.

We harvested our first watermelon last week, and while I had gotten confused and thought it was a Georgia Rattlesnake, as soon as Jonny cut it open, we could see that it was an orangeglo after all.  We’ve eaten two of them now, and I think we’re getting better at determining when they’re ripe.  For the record, neither of these had dry tendrils and had we waited for that, we would have probably waited too long.

Here are my notes:

August 12:  Planted one bed of Russian red kale

August 15:  in a flat, planted:  rainbow chard, Decicco broccoli, purple sprouting broccoli, champion collards, lacinato kale

August 19:  planted four brussel sprout and four cauliflower starts along with cherrybelle and french breakfast radish seeds

August 20:  planted one bed with bull’s blood beets, arugula, rocky top lettuce mix, and red romaine  picked a basket full of Kentucky pole beans

August 22:  planted more chard and broccoli in flats

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Ginny

I believe that when you slow down and savor the small things, you don’t have to wish for a different life; you can discover beauty in the life you already have. {Find out more here...}

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  1. jenny says

    August 28, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    Recently an old fashioned gardening friend told me that garlic water sprayed on squash plants will deter squash bugs. I didn’t get to try out the tip this year because my squash had already been done in by the wicked things, but I thought I’d share. I’ve been reading your blog for a long time and just love it 🙂

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  2. Jennyr says

    August 27, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    I’m a little late posting…but here is my update 🙂

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  3. Taryn Kae Wilson @ Wooly Moss Roots says

    August 26, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    That watermelon is huge! It looks delicious. 🙂

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  4. meghann says

    August 26, 2012 at 8:22 am

    That watermelon is so neat! I wondered what it was, scrolling through the photos, because it looked just like a watermelon until you cut it open. I’ve never seen one without the pink flesh inside before. What a treat! xo

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  5. Ellen says

    August 26, 2012 at 8:15 am

    Do you grow all those items from seeds or buy plants? Where so you buy plants?

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    • Ginny says

      August 29, 2012 at 9:00 am

      Hi Ellen! Most things we grow from seed, but I do buy plant starts from our local farm stores sometimes.

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  6. Nicole Spring says

    August 25, 2012 at 11:02 pm

    That melon looks super YUM! We only had one watermelon make it when we lived in Virginia thanks to those darn squash bugs you mentioned. They were my fiercest enemy, let me tell you! I’m fighting them (for your garden) with you in spirit!

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  7. christina says

    August 25, 2012 at 9:29 pm

    You garden is truly amazing! Love the watermelon’s color. Will have to try that next summer!

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  8. April says

    August 25, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    Your garden is so beautiful! What a great color of watermelon, and I enjoyed hearing about your fall veggies, I am hoping I didn’t wait to long, but I am about to plant some kale right now. 🙂

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  9. Annie says

    August 25, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    Oh my! That watermelon truly makes my mouth water. Very impressive!

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  10. Linda says

    August 25, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    I love the picture with the chicken getting in on the action too. So sweet.

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  11. Ngo Family Farm says

    August 25, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    Oh, yum! That melon looks so wonderful. Ours are still palm-size (definitely not ripe yet 😉 Everything is slow to grow this year with our record heat and drought. But it also makes each thing harvested that much more appreciated!
    -Jaime

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  12. MotherOwl says

    August 25, 2012 at 10:33 am

    Erm, do you have to do anything special — join somewhere eg, as it says: “If you are participating in Garden Journal” — to be allowed to likn up. Or would this blogpost be allrigth? http://krydderuglen.blogspot.dk/2012/08/en-spndende-sensommerdag-exciting.html

    You’re wlecome to delete this comment if it is stupid and/or not allowed to link like this.

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  13. MotherOwl says

    August 25, 2012 at 10:26 am

    Wow, I never saw a yellow watermelon before. It it just wonderful and so big. And then sharing with the hen :). My Owlets would totally do the same.

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  14. Barbara says

    August 25, 2012 at 9:45 am

    Ginny, I am curious how you will store your produce for the winter. Do you have a root cellar? Will you can most of it?

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    • Ginny says

      August 25, 2012 at 10:13 am

      Hi Barbara! I don’t have a good plan. We’ve never had more than we can eat quickly enough that storage isn’t an issue. We don’t have a cellar (but I want one!) We don’t have a chest freezer. Right now there are three boxes of (dirty) potatoes on the floor in my kitchen. I don’t think we will have too terribly much to store though. I am thinking that I may end up blanching and freezing some green beans. The winter squash will just go in the pantry. I had hoped to can tomatoes this year for the first time, but the early groundhog damage resulted in us not having more tomatoes than we could eat.

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  15. Jen says

    August 25, 2012 at 7:38 am

    The melon looks good!

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  16. steph says

    August 25, 2012 at 7:30 am

    orange???? never seen an orangeglo before!!! (love the chicken photo!!) I’m doing a terrible job of figuring out the melon harevest thing this year—-planted some miniatures, so they ARE small; so far, I’ve only hit one right—-if I wait too long, they split open, too soon and they are just white inside; I’ve got a handful more out side—hoping to get something right!!!

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  17. Mary says

    August 25, 2012 at 7:09 am

    Cool melon! I have got to figure out when our sugar babies are ripe. This is the first year there is actually more than one! We had one grow last year and then we cut it open too early 🙁 It’s hard! I’ll get a journal up today if I can…

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    • Ginny says

      August 25, 2012 at 10:13 am

      It is hard! I can’t tell you how many white melons we have cut open in the past!

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  18. Emma says

    August 25, 2012 at 6:18 am

    My goodness, how much did that thing weigh? I’ve never seen an orangeglo melon before, I wonder if I could get them to grow here in the alps?
    Your garden is huge, It must take a lot of work!

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    • Ginny says

      August 25, 2012 at 10:14 am

      I don’t know, but it was heavy! I don’t know if that variety would grow in the alps–It needs about 90 days to mature I think?

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  19. Sara says

    August 25, 2012 at 5:43 am

    Oh, I LOVE that last photo with the chicken. Probably the only thing more enjoyable than eating the melon yourself, is watching the birds (and in my case, the horse, too) have at the rinds!

    Reply
  20. Emily says

    August 24, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    Wow! Was the watermelon good? My children would love to try something like that!

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    • Ginny says

      August 25, 2012 at 10:14 am

      Yes, it was really good! I should have mentioned that!

      Reply
  21. Gretchen says

    August 24, 2012 at 10:59 pm

    LOVE the melon!

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  22. heathermama hawkes says

    August 24, 2012 at 10:55 pm

    that watermelon looks tasty! is it much different tasting from a more traditional watermelon? we picked up a few new to us melons at the farmers market a few weeks ago… out of this world good. i grew up with just plain old red water melon, cantaloupe and honeydew. there are so many more kinds of melons available now.

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    • Ginny says

      August 25, 2012 at 10:15 am

      No, I think it tastes like watermelon in general, but some say it has a “tropical” flavor.

      Reply

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