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Mid-July Harvest
It's been another long, hot and wet week. Humidity has been sitting at 90+% which makes working outside unbearable. And every other day we get a severe thunderstorm. But garden keeps producing and I've been picking beans for winter, few berries for snacking and even got few first cherry tomatoes.
Black raspberries are at the end of their season, but the wineberries are just starting to come in so I'm enjoying them just as well. I did manage to get couple of jars of jam out of berries for winter so that makes me happy.
Yellow raspberries once again got destroyed by deer so not much of the harvest. But I did transplant some of the remaining canes into the small garden and will turn 3 of those beds into berry patches. One will be yellow, one early red raspberry and one everbearing. This way my hubby will enjoy them whenever he wants. It makes more sense to plant berries given how expensive they are in the market vs readily available stuff like onions. And I can plant greens around them in spring. One of the beds will share space with asparagus and strawberries. Hope it will work out.
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What a great haul of beans! Mine are just little threads now, but soon I hope. I'm curious about "share space with asparagus"...my asparagus doesn't like to share, so I wonder how you manage that.
ReplyDeleteThat bed is 12 feet long, so I planted asparagus on first 3 feet 5 yrs ago and it's doing great. This year I planted raspberries on another end - 3 feet as well. It will take a while to spread so I'm not worried. In between I'll be planting other stuff.
DeleteThat's a nice big pile of beans. Mine are just starting to flower. Glad you got a couple jars of jam out of the berries. It's nice to capture a little summer for the winter months.
ReplyDeleteMy hubby loves sweets so I try to make various jams and jellies for him. Last year we had abundance of strawberries and ended up with too much of that jam, so this year I gave them away instead and made jam with other berries.
DeleteThose are a lot of beans! My bush beans are just starting to flower, so hopefully not too much longer a wait for us. I guess all of the wet weather keeps missing us - we had a good storm about a week or so ago, but nothing since & looks like no significant rain for at least another week or more.
ReplyDeleteUgh, I wish I could send you some of that - we've got over 7" in June and so far July is just as wet :( It's very humid and muggy outside.
DeleteToo bad about the raspberries. I am thankful our deer mostly leave them alone. They do like the thornless blackberries though.
ReplyDeleteOur thornless blackberries don't make it past June :(
DeleteWow look at all those beans. And I'm with you on the raspberries. They are so expensive at the store and they aren't hard to grow. Well that is if you can keep them away from the critters.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I'm giving up my small garden beds so I can at least have something for next year.
DeleteJenny- What a great bean harvest. Sorry to hear about your weather. We have very little humidity in Oregon, so when we do have some I hate it. It does make outside work close to unbearable. Our wild blackberries are just starting to turn red, so in 2-3 more weeks I too will be busy processing berries to store for the winter months ahead.
ReplyDeleteI love Oregon weather! So nice, steady and not hot (usually). Hope your berry harvest will turn out great.
DeleteWe are still awaiting a bean harvest, The plants are slow to grow this year. Our yellow raspberries are autumn fruiting.
ReplyDeleteI hope your yellow raspberries and beans will give you a nice harvest.
DeleteHumidity is awful. We've been getting the rain and humidity as well, and combined with temps close to a 100 degrees it feels like you're suffocating. Be careful out there.
ReplyDeleteAre you growing bush beans? You're doing real well keeping them picked. Mine are always a little fat and overgrown.
Yes, except the long flat yellow type Gold Marie, all beans are bush variety. I pick them very young as I don't like when they get tougher and bulky. They are much more tender in taste and I like them that way.
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