After what has felt like the longest, driest of spells possible, we are back in the business of harvesting from our small plot! I am so happy to report that last weekend brought us a nice little bundle of delicious, tart, completely perfect rhubarb that went straight into an equally delicious crisp!
While we have been anxiously waiting for anything to be ready for harvest we have kept ourselves busy with getting the garden in! While it is all not completely in the ground, I'd say we're about 90% there with the rest planned to go in over the next week. The spring has been incredibly long and cool but it has quickly shifted into hot, windy days that are wreaking havoc on everything we transplanted.
Strange, strange weather. I have a feeling we'll either have the strongest veggies possible or we'll lose a few. Time will tell.
I also took some time to create an aerial, digital view of our tiny property, including all of our beds, the chickens, the compost and the bee area. This view now lives on my 1/8 Acre page as a continual reminder of all the work we've done to our plot in the six years we've owned this house...inspiration and exhaustion. A little of both can't be a bad thing, right?
Harvest totals for the past three weeks:
- Rhubarb = 12 oz
- Eggs = 231
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Happy harvesting!
xoxo
The aerial view schematic is well done! Nice to have it all in context. I should have harvested rhubarb yesterday too while I was out harvesting, but did not want to bake something then (other than make dinner) so I skipped it. I really do need to harvest it though.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was fun pulling it all together!
DeleteLol...I hear you on the "not wanting to bake" thing! I must have been especially inspired ;-)
What a great harvest!
ReplyDelete231 eggs in 3 weeks? Really? Wow!
ReplyDeleteI've got a bunch of rhubarb ready to harvest too, but I'm eating almost no sugar these days and so the rhubarb sits in the garden waiting for me to find a way to eat it without sweetening it. At least it's a pretty plant.
Love the plan of the garden. You have put a lot of hard work into it.
Oh yes, the no sugar thing. I have done that a few times over the past few months. I wish I had an answer for you, but rhubarb without a sweetener is just not what i would call "yummy".
DeleteYou are getting a LOT of eggs! Nice! Nice rhubarb plant and harvest too!
ReplyDeleteThat's a fantastic harvest! We're not getting very much at the moment, in fact nothing is quite ready. We're just going into winter though.
ReplyDeleteLovely patch of rhubarb, do you know what kind it is? I was talking to an older gardener who told me about snacking on rhubarb stalks straight out of the garden, as if they were celery!
ReplyDeleteI don't know what variety it is, unfortunately. We got the crown a few years ago and I neglected to mark down what kind it was :-(
DeleteGorgeous rhubarb. Your areal view is real cool, well done.
ReplyDeleteHAHA. Your aerial view is what I do with my word doc/Xcel spreadsheets. I cna't help myself I'm constantly playing with them. LOVE yours. I really like seeing what everyone has. :-)
ReplyDeleteI also just realized you ahve the type of hives that I want! I didn't realize that before. Don't know why. BUt, I want these for the property in Alabama so it will be a while. That's OK I have plenty to learn!
How wonderful that you are planning on getting bees! It has been such a learning experience for us to keep bees!
DeleteCongrats on the eggs! Wish I could grow eggs, too.
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