Field Update - Harvesting Continues
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This is my sixth post this year in the Hive Garden community. An occasional photo blog about my work in the fields and the crops we grow.
When I started doing this, about eight or nine years ago, the primary purpose was to grow our own vegetables instead of buying them in stores. We have been partially successful.
Carrots are one such example. We plant them every year, but without success. Not a single plant has ever grown. They were also protected from pests, but nothing helped. I still have to buy them. Onions and red beets grow, but they are only slightly larger than walnuts.
So as not to complain, a few days ago we returned from a two-week vacation by the sea. As usual, the field has turned into a jungle, muddy from the rain. I won't need an irrigation system anymore. The field is full of weeds, but there are also some crops.
Finally, some tomatoes. Mostly small cherry tomatoes.
There are a few other varieties, but there are even more green ones.
Today, as I write this, the temperature dropped to 6 degrees Celsius overnight, which is very low and usually causes tomatoes to become diseased and fail to ripen. We'll see in the following days.
There should be celery and parsley here. I even have trouble finding them.
Leafy cabbage, chard, leeks, and green lettuce grow well in this soil and moisture.
We picked some peppers last time, and we will choose some more.
The cucumbers have fallen ill; only one remains. Even some zucchini are still growing.
The most rewarding plants, those that always yield rich harvests in our fields, are green beans in pods and borloti beans.
These yellow beans are of the 'barjanec' variety of green beans, an old Slovenian variety from the Ljubljana Barje. Barje means marsh in English, and our soil obviously suits them well.
They bear fruit at the end of August, when it usually starts raining again, as it is doing now. My wife and I harvested 8 kilograms in this round :)
Next up is the Italian borlotti bean, or cranberry bean, which also grows well here. The pods and beans themselves are a colorful red and white, and we harvest them in the fall when they dry out.
Now for the pumpkins.
My pumpkin patch got sick almost entirely, and started to dry up, but a few pumpkins will grow.
For now, there are four Hokkaido pumpkins here. They are not particularly large, but they are still holding on. @der-prophet and @hive-world-champ will undoubtedly have something to say about this.
I have two more large ones, which I showed in my previous post, intended for Halloween.
To conclude, we have harvested some vegetables again, so there is no need to go to the store (except for carrots, haha), which is also the objective.
Thank you for your attention!
My fieldwork this year:
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https://ecency.com/hive-140635/@seckorama/work-in-the-field-potatoes
https://ecency.com/hive-140635/@seckorama/field-update-everything-grows
https://ecency.com/hive-140635/@seckorama/field-update-first-harvests
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Too bad those carrots won't grow, I've grown them before here and they work out well. It may be a soil pH issue? The tomatoes look good, I hope the low temp doesn't kill them off, but tomatoes don't like the cold. The jalapenos look great, I have lots of peppers in my yard along with tomatoes! I'm glad you got some vegetables to eat out of the garden, I know how it feels to be gone for a couple weeks and things turn into a jungle! lol
Yes, you're right, it's probably something with the soil. Not everything can grow on this soil, but that's why beans are the winner. I've never tried changing the pH in the soil before, so I still have a lot to learn, and I'm unsure how it would affect the other plants here...
I've been lucky to have great soil, so I'm far from an expert on that either. Maybe even adding a lot of organic material like sterilized manure and tilling it in might even to do the trick, my parents used to do that around their property. At any rate you can find anything online anymore! I'm glad the beans worked out so well!
Yes, all that is true. However, I find it interesting that weeds grow so prolifically; it seems that they are best adapted to this soil. If we didn't cultivate this field, in a few years there would be a forest there, like the one I have next door, on my neighbor's plot.
We always plant with so much hope in the spring.... And then reality hits!
I would be thrilled with the harvest you are getting. All that produce you picked will be delicious!
Yes, in the end, when you look at it, a third is eaten by animals, a third gets sick, and we pick up the rest. It's still something :)
It's amazing how much of a difference 1-2 rain can make in just a few days! We are still waiting for one good rain, as these wildfires are completely out of control...
Back to your garden... Those cherry tomatoes looked like they were "pre-fabricated"! 😃 With my OCD, I would plant only them... to enjoy the symmetry... 😃 Maybe you should trade them with some of your neighbors for carrots? To pick vegetables that suit your soil and focus on them, and the rest exchange with other farmers... ;)
Thanks for sharing your garden progress... I always enjoy checking them out!
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It would be normal for me to exchange my surplus green beans with someone who has a surplus of carrots, but these are strange times we live in. We used to gather at the market with everyone who had surplus produce and exchange it there, but now we are no longer allowed to do so; only registered farmers can. We are effectively criminals because we do not use money, only goods. Thanks for picking the post for @ourpick!
OMG! 🤦♂
Nowadays, many "rules" have no sense at all! I mean, I do understand the point (taxes and such), but the common sense says the other...
Yeah. More and more nonsensical rules. I wonder where this will end.
Can I have some tomatoes ☺☺ I love tomatoes. It's capturing my eyes
Yes of course you can. Just came here and you can choose which tomatoes you want 😎
So beautiful in the eyes.I love to eat tomatoes specially if it is green and I will put a vinegar and salt.You have an abundant garden.
Thank you. But if they're green, they're already sour. I mean, we only eat them when they are ripe, sometimes too red, sometimes too orange; yeah, it depends on the sort.
But I love sour.I wanted to ate it raw with a salt hahahaha it's good for our skin.
Ok then :)
Nothing beats growling your own vegetables. I have started to grow my own herbs,nice and easy :)
Nice. I hope you'll have lots of them and enjoy yourself.
I was happy to see your Hokkaido pumpkins. Here in our place if it looks that color, it usually means it’s damaged or insects have eaten it. Yours looks so healthy that’s really amazing. I hope you can harvest a lot. God bless you always...