Around the Urban Homestead
Life is still very very busy and the lack of attention is starting to take it’s toll on the garden. We’ve been having outrageous amounts of rainfall here, which has set off a white covering of powdery mildew on all the varieties of squash. I wasn’t able to treat until the weekend, but by then it was too little to late. To be fair, I’m not sure I would have been able to fight this one back even if I had more time though.
I’m still getting some squash, but production has definitely slowed down and the plants have seen better days. What was a lush jungle of squash I had to fight to check for fruit is now frumpy clumps of vine I can easily trapse through. Thankfully they are the only casualties. Otherwise, the garden is continuing to impress me.
I picked 25.5 pounds of produce this week, including the first spaghetti squash and sugar baby watermelon. Harvests also included basil, zucchini, crookneck squash, patty pan squash, tomatoes, and cucumber. After noticing some of the pinto beans were already dry, I pulled a handful to admire my first harvest of dry beans.
Each year I’ve been able to look back and see how my vegetarianism fit into my life goals. This year it also fit very nicely with my new adventure of urban homesteading. Now that I’m growing as much of my own food as I can, I’m learning to eat locally and seasonally…both of which are so easy to do in my backyard because I can grow most of my diet as a vegetarian.
The zucchini and croockneck squash are still going at it. The cucumbers are nearly as bad this year, which is surprising after how sickly and non-productive last years vines were. I’ve had trouble keeping up with the broccoli as well, and one small one which didn’t fill in very well bolted on me…so interesting to see.
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