March 15, 2014

Today we picked our first radish harvest and they are so tasty!  We now have almost everything in the ground and growing well.  Today I will be working on our "Toilet" planter for an eggplant and some herbs.  I will post a photo when it is complete.  While  much of the U.S. is feeling the full brunt of winter we are very sunny here today and about 79 degrees so the plants are just going crazy.  Here is what we have harvested this week:

This is the last tomato from our winter plant.  This single plant gave us over 50 tomatoes.  It was an heriloom brandwine.  The sweet potatoes I had thought were all harvested and I found these just turning the soil for the coming spring planting.

Here are the radishes that we picked from the garden today.  They are cherry belles and they only take 22 days from the date of sowing to harvesting.  They were my 4 year old's first gardening attempt.  I think we will have to nickname him Farmer Boy!
We are on Spring Break here in Pasco county so we are really enjoying this weather.  We are planning to go strawberry picking this week and then making jams, pies, and shortcake this week.  Probably going to get blueberries as well for pies and fruit empanadas.  I should have plenty of pictures for all of you this weekend so you can see how things are plotted and growing.  Until then...