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#Rhubarb chutney in progress
#SeasonalEating #zone7a

Little kale salad with chive flowers
Not pictured- local Striped Bass done with pac choi and last year’s Bulgarian carrot pepper salsa
#zone7a
#FromTheGarden #SeasonalEating

Small blue glass bowl with dressed julienned kale and little pale purple flowers. And a couple forks

Fava time!
#Bloomscrolling #zone7a #GrowYourOwn

Close view of fava (broad) bean flowers. They are white with black veining and black patches

Golden snow peas with purple flowers!
#zone7a #Gardening

Close up peas on trellis with pale yellow pods and rich purple flowers

Starting the seeds for the season now. I’ve finally leant my lesson, not to start early. This is New England, despite global warming, we still have chilly days until June, like today it’s 10℃ and drizzling all day.

#growYourOwn #zone6b #zone7a

Two large spring-green (mixed lettuce) clear plastic containers side by side, holding six each of the seed starter pots, on the chrome wire shelf with plant lights. Two more of the same plastic containers serving as the lids.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!
40 feet from picking to grilling
#asparagus #SeasonalEating #zone7a #Gardening

A large and full of purple and green asparagus spears against a checkerboard floor

Same asparagus spears on a round charcoal grill

Blue edged white plate mounded with charred asparagus spears yum!

@richrollgardener @gardening we are #zone7a and I haven’t planted out but kept them in a cart outside for days… which I mean to say I agree it’s hard to risk. 2 years ago we got that May frost

#blackcurrant and #pear #Bloomscrolling #zone7a

Mature pear tree blossom cluster near a flowering black currant branch.

Big windy day in the veg. garden: Finished mulching the paths, Transplanted out various brassicas, dill, chard, sweet peas. Seeded salad turnips, radishes, spinach outside and melons, squash and cukes inside, and moved up the peppers and tomatoes to bigger pots.
#Zone7a #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

Tumultuous springtime in #zone7a

Grey sky utterly upstaged with dramatic and beautiful golden highlighted trees beginning to bud and a double rainbow 🌈

@clew Thanks for your thoughtful reply! I've been growing here for 25 yrs and the soil has good structure - not wet or compacted. We did start the plot with a ton of seashell rich compost and seaweed. have had consistent problems with ph and calcium due to the shells.
been #NoDig about 3 yrs.

THe garden is quite productive, but certainly could be more so. I have most trouble with tomatoes and peppers. Bumper crops last year of beans, cucumbers and melons.

#Zone7a #gardening

Trying peas started inside and planted out today. With a layer of fleece row cover. Seedlings about 7” high. Also going to direct seed some as usual tomorrow #zone7a #experigarden #Gardening #allotment

Got the leeks, scallions, and 2 types shallots in too. Now we just need rain. #gardening #zone7a #allotment

Planted out the onion plants I grew from seed: Patterson (yellow storage), red storage, gold coin (Cippolini). Nice strong root systems!
#Gardening #allotment #Zone7a

Stashed many precious and sentimental #iris in a vegetable bed last fall (due to removal of a huge tree ). I didn’t expect them to make it but they ALL are showing signs of growth! Now transplanted to new garden beds. Hoping they continue to thrive.

#Gardening #Zone7a

#MapleSyrup boil today!
#Zone7a
#GrowYourOwn

Three chambered Maple syrup pan at hard boil

Thank you, Joe! #Zone7a

Photograph of a fenced plot in a community garden. Two blue and white striped chairs are inside a pyramid of twining beans, overlooking rows of tomatoes, fava beans, and various other vegetables.

Will start onion seeds later this week for #zone7a
Time to find and rig up my homemade seed starting rack/lights set up…. Maybe someday I will lay down the big cash for that specialized one, but maybe I’ll just keep on being #thrifty .

#gardening #germination #nodig

Been fussing over the #BrusselsSprouts for weeks to have some of harvestable size for Thanksgiving because I planted late…. improvising a cold frame, watering through a freak drought, keeping cabbage moth caterpillars and aphids away. And today I get to harvest these delicious marbles!
#vegetableGardening is always a gamble. “Will the stars align and I will get to eat something from this effort?” Today the answer is YES

#zone7a #SeasonalEating #Nodig

#beets a plenty!

#zone7a #Gardening #GrowFood #SeasonalEating

#Zone7a

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