This past week in the garden was pretty productive. Lucy the puggle dog helped dig potatoes {her favorite activity} and we cleared the garden bed that sits just beside the patio. 
If there is one thing Lucy loves to do, it’s dig!
Swiss chard, tomatoes, potatoes and a handful of green beans were harvested this week.
Even though I’m not a huge fan of Swiss chard, I LOVE it’s techno colors. 
And take a look at those tomatoes! I try to grow a few Stupice tomatoes plants each year because they are not only great slicers, but great for making sauce as well. 
Our Meyer lemon tree is hanging in there!
If you haven’t planted your garlic yet it’s time to get it in the ground. 
After digging up the mini potato patch I planted 2 rows of garlic and a wide row of chive seeds. Chives take a while to grow so although they’ll pop up next spring, I won’t be able to really harvest them until a year laterwhen the roots are more established.
Naked gardens are so lonely looking.
Here we are the middle of September and the container gardens are still going strong.
And the garden boxes? They are hanging in there too.
~Mavis
I use Botanical Interests Seeds in my kitchen garden. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2016 Garden Seed Catalog, or see the seeds I will be growing in my garden this year HERE.
Angela says
I think you might like swiss chard better if you harvest it younger. Its fantasic steamed in whatever wash water clings to the leaves, then given a little butter, salt and pepper and a splash of red wine vinegar. Vinegar cuts the bitterness.
Your plants always look so huge and lush. Do you think its the tagro or the weather? I live in minnesota (zone 4) and by august my plants can get big but never like yours. Im wondering if its the weather or my soil or both. We do not have tagro here, but I could get horse manure and it might be similar.
Maybe your east coast weather is similar to MN to give you a feel for our weather. We are usually frozen solid from the end of october to mid march. En its dreary, wet and gray until mid may. The risk of frost lasts until mid may. We have hot and sunny june, july, august. Occasional rain. The weather starts to cool drastically by September and a frost will usually happen by the end of september, though not usually a hard freeze.
Any advice is appreciated. Angela
Mavis Butterfield says
Honestly, I think it’s the Tagro! 🙂