Happy Cabbage

The past couple weekends were taken up by weddings which left our garden to its own devices.  We’ve now taken out most of the summer crops and have added in cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and kale.  It is a good feeling to start fresh.

To our surprise a squash was waiting for us this morning.  This is the only squash that made it to maturity.  I’ve always heard that gardeners end up with more squash than they know what to do with, so our squash-less predicament was a bit embarrassing…

Our green beans are still at it.  We’ve had a few meals with fresh green beans and now we plan to let the rest dry out to save for later use.

Drew is taking the first stab at trying to save some of our seed.  The cherry tomato plant has been doing very well and the chickens go nuts for them.  I must admit, I stopped counting how many of them we harvested after I started feeding them to the chickens.  We’ve gotten a lot!  Here are the seeds fermenting a bit before Drew drys them out for us to keep.

On a side note, we did eat that double yolker.  Here is how it came out of the shell.

We ate our first handful of green beans the other day.  I was surprised at how much I enjoyed them and can truly say that these taste better than green beans from the store.

We cut open our melon once it ripened.  There wasn’t much flesh to eat since it never got very big.  It reminded me mostly of a cantaloupe.  I’ll probably give some of it to the chickens.

We have been peeling, squeezing, and freezing tomatoes little by little over this gardening season.  Last night we had the biggest mess of them yet.

The free melon plant we were given seemed to be at the end of its life, so we went ahead and plucked this guy off of it.  I hope it is far enough along to ripen and be edible.

This cool, fall air is making me think it is almost time for me to transplant my cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale and cabbage.  I usually hate the shift into colder weather, but at least now it means new food!

First off, check out how this melon is looking.

Secondly, we got our second egg today! Whoot whoot!

The bean crop has over taken the trellis Drew made for it.

We also have this white squash forming.

Good things all around.