Category: parsnips

Garden scan

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Row by row scan:

Flower row with garlic bed beyond. Mostly poppies and daisies at this time, but sunflowers coming.
Three sisters row. Corn (a few stalks), squash, green beans. A few volunteer potatoes. Horseradish at one end and comfrey at the other.
Broccoli (Aspabroc and DeCicco). Started under row cover. Vulnerable to porcupines! Saved by electric fence, now harvesting. Some cabbage, I think.
Fava bean row, plus some Dazzling Blue Kale and volunteer wild arugula from last year.
Parsnips, first and second year. Turnips. Beets. And a patch of broccoli rabe bolting. Will replace with some carrots.
Mixed greens row. Chard, radicchio, ruby red orach, Salanova lettuce, escarole, some volunteer dill, baby Turkish rocket, and some room for succession planting.
Soybeans just flowering, fingerling potatoes, carrots. Artichoke at the end of this row and three others.
Tomato row. Plus one marigold at the top.
Fence row – scarlet runner beans (not shown), rudbeckia perennial, zucchini, patty pan squash, Hopi black sunflowers, Chinese cabbage.
Lettuces under the corner trellis. Also visible – a few cucumbers starting to climb.

July 10 in the garden

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A beautiful day, sunny and warm with a cool breeze. The garden is looking great, healthy and almost pest free- discovered our first potato beetles today and dropped them into a bucket of soapy water.

Some standouts:

Virginia Ctenucha moth visiting the gate
First baby artichoke
Lovely Salanova lettuces, Red Butter variety
King of the garden, the second year parsnips (2), for seed harvesting and pollinator attraction
The fava bean forest
Hoping to attract a pile of wood chips

A time to dig

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We had some snow, some rain, some pretty cold weather. Then this weekend it warmed up and was fairly sunny. A good time to get some more potatoes and parsnips out of the garden. The ground was not frozen and workable under the hay mulch. Could have used a little more mulch.

18 pounds of parsnips

Probably fewer pounds of potatoes, maybe 10? I didn’t weigh them.

We are not using the root cellarbox this year. It failed to keep out water last winter. We’re leaving parsnips and potatoes in the ground under mulch for digging as needed. The carrots are in the refrigerator, where they are taking up a lot of space.