We spend winter looking forward to warmer days, dreaming of a garden that reflects the beauty in the seed catalogs we pour through. Even while it’s still cold out, the much-awaited time comes for spring planting.
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plant starts
Sweet Potato Harvest
You might say sweet potatoes are glorious! And that would be fitting for this relative of the morning glory. They are another way God provides a delicious, nutritious vegetable that can be stored fresh for months. Let’s see how we did with our sweet potato harvest.
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Potato Harvest, Our First Year Growing Potatoes
This is our first year growing potatoes. Besides sweet potatoes, which aren’t ready yet, we grew three varieties of white potatoes. Red Cloud and Dark Red Norland are red-skinned varieties and Carola is a yellow potato (check out our August newsletter). We tried to get a russet variety, but the farm we ordered from didn’t have a good supply. Which is just fine with us, since red and yellow (and purple) are our favorite varieties anyhow. Let’s see how we did with our potato harvest.
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Tour Our Summer Garden
The summer is still hot, but we’re already looking toward fall. Join us for a tour of our summer garden. Some of the plants in our garden have been harvested completely, some are finishing up and looking a little sad in the summer heat and unusually dry weather, but we still have some we’re very much looking forward to harvesting. Find out what we planted for the first time this year, what did well for us, what didn’t quite work as planned. In addition, what will be in our fall garden.
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Our Grow Lights Set-up for Plant Starts
While we have started plants from seeds in years past, we have not always had luck. Last year, for example, we used some existing shelving in our mudroom. We thought that room was perfect with the many windows on the southern side of the house. However, the room is cold because it is just an old framed in porch has the door we use to go in and out of the house. Also, in this part of the world, the sun isn’t exactly reliable in shining every day this time of year. We did purchase seed warming pads, which helped. But the biggest problem was that our indoor cats decided to eat most of the starts that popped up! We did buy organic starts locally, but were limited to what was available a bit later in the season.
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