Remember when you were a kid and a baby carrot was actually a baby carrot and not a big carrot that had been whittled down by a machine?
I love spending the early morning hours walking through our backyard vegetable garden and harvesting something fresh each day. Shopping in your backyard is pretty rad if you ask me. It’s amazing how tomatoes that didn’t seem ripe yesterday are ready to be plucked just 24 hours later {Sun Gold tomatoes are my favorite right now}.
This year I planted 2 patio tomato plants on the side of the house and they are just beginning to ripen. I’ve never tried this variety before, have you?
Let’s talk about carrots, shall we?
Now is that time to plant carrots if you are hoping for a winter harvest. It’s so nice to be able to pluck something from the ground in the middle of January. All you need to do is get your seeds into the ground now, and then add a nice layer of mulch before your first fall frost and you should be good to go.
I’ve overwintered carrots for a couple of years now here in the Pacific Northwest and have had great success with growing them during the cooler months. 
Blueberries! The 1 gallon pots we planted this spring are now ready to harvest. How cool is that? Lucy and I have been munching on handfuls of berries each morning as we make the rounds in the garden. Next year we should get enough blueberries to make some homemade blueberry jam. 
Picking tomatoes along the back of the garden boxes was getting a little tricky so I finally had to give them a good trim. The squash vines are beginning to invade the entire area and harvesting tomatoes is going to be a little difficult from here on out.
So far we have a couple of acorn squash, a butternut {maybe 2} and some hubbard squash growing in the squash patch. I had hoped for more. I think my yield would have been higher if the squash bed was deeper so I’ll have to work on building up the area this winter.
And last but not least, my crazy pole beans. They are now about 7 feet tall. How fun is that? How is your garden coming along?
Are you in full on harvest mode?
~Mavis
This years garden is being sponsored by the awesome folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2015 Garden Seed Catalog, or see the seeds I’ll be growing in my garden this year HERE.
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