DIY Seed tape

I have seen seed tape in the stores and thought that it would be a good way to keep rows evenly spaced. The seeds on the store bought tapes are of unknown quality and origin so we have made our own. There are dozens of instructions online on how to do this and this is our take on it. We used news paper cut into strips and “glued” the seeds on with flour and water paste.

Onions

This year we are trying onions from seed. The sets we used last year did not produce a signal onion. Here are the seedlings at one week and they seem to be doing quite well.

Seeds

The seeds from Baker Creek and Comstock Ferre have arived.



Baker Creek

Comstock Ferre

Carrots in January

We still have some carrots in the garden. I pulled a few today and they are in good shape. The leaf mulch we put on them has insulated them form freezing.

garden for 2010 is almost done

The garden for 2010 is almost done. Everything except for cabbage and carrots is dead from the frost. We will mulch the carrots to try to get them to over winter in place. The cabbage will be used shortly.

More tomato's and a squash

We picked a descant amount of tomato's and a squash considering it is almost the end of October. We leave for our cruse in 2 days and they probably would be destroyed by frost by the time we get back.

WECK jar test

Peppers in a WECK asparagus jar. This was test of the "non USDA" approved BPA free reusable lid WECK jar. I acquired a few of these from my sister. The benefits are that the lids are reusable (probably why the USDA no longer approves of the "nothing to buy every year") plus they just look cool.
So far they seem to work gook.

last round of canning 2010

This is the result of the last round of canning for 2010

4 jars of pickled peppers
1 jar of hole pickled jalapenos
3 quarts and 1 pint of basil Roma's
3 quarts and 4 pints of tomato soup
1 pint of sauerkraut stuffed peppers

Smoking jalapenos to make chipotle

Smoking jalapenos to make chipotle

Cabbage

Cabbage ready to be made into sauerkraut

picked peppers

We picked all of the peppers before we get frost.

garlic and walking onions

Planted garlic and walking onions in back bed.

Squash

We are finally starting to get some squash. A little late but better than never.

Sunflower

Here are some of the sunflower seeds from the one plant. The other one was attacked by birds and squirrels and there were no seeds left.

caterpillar

Odd looking caterpillar crawling on the dill. I am not sure what it is but it probably is not good.

jalapenos

The jalapenos are doing very well this year as well. Must be all of the heat. Here is the first batch ready to be pickled.

tomatoes

tomatoes

The tomatoes just wont stop. I am not sure what we are going to do with them all and there are still hundreds more that are not ripe yet.

 

Update 9/10/2010

A shot of the progress of the garden.