It has come to my attention that this garden will need to be harvested every 3 days or else we get Gig HONKIN FRIENDS (very big zucchinis)
Pictured above on the left: a zucchini with my arm for size reference.
Pictured above on the right: the rest of today’s harvest (including our first harvest of corn) with my sister’s arm for size reference. Note: my sister is not small, all of these squashes are just very blessed and large
So as a result I will be donating these vegetables to my city’s food bank (along with friends and family, but mostly to the food bank) since this amount of food So Often is too much even for the Mutual Aid group.
Freegan Life Quarantine Garden Part 3: a huge harvest
Pictured above on the left: my three sisters garden bed as of July 1st! There are already tiny corn cobs growing :D
Pictured above on the right: the same garden bed but from a different angle to show off the sugar pumpkins
Pictured above on the left: the adjacent garden bed full of tomatoes, pinto beans, peppers, squash, and cucumber
Pictured above on the right: a couple of volunteer tomato plants growing in the middle of the lawn. So far they seem to be cherry tomatoes.
Pictured above on the left are the rows of tortilla corn, sweet corn, squashes, and beans planted before
Above on the right is a close up of the bean plants
And finally, pictured above is our harvest of about 25 pounds of spaghetti squash, yellow squash, and zucchini that will be distributed through my local mutual aid group to families in need (note, this isn’t a picture of tiny and regular sized squashes, those are regular squashes and R E A L L Y BIG squashes)
Quarantine garden part 2: first harvest of the year
Pictured above is: 3 unripe spaghetti squashes, 3 small zucchinis, a pickling cucumber, and many jalapeños I didn’t bother counting or weighing
I purposely picked this harvest early because 1: picking squashes, cucumbers and peppers stimulates the plants to grow a bigger harvest. So I will actually get several, increasingly bigger harvests as this growing season continues. And 2: these fruits are edible when unripe (although the spaghetti squash will be missing it’s signature “nutty” flavor)
Pictured above on the left is my Three Sisters bed as of early June
And pictured above on the right is the adjacent bed where the cucumbers, squash, and zucchini grow. This was originally full of mostly cucumbers but the effect of the polar vortex reached all the way to zone 8 and killed all of the cucumber seedlings but 1. In their places are sweet peppers, tomatoes, and pinto beans.
Above on the left: the beginnings of my first year permaculture raised bed. Here I was laying out paper to block the weeds from coming through. I later laid down soil, then hay and wood chips as mulch. March 19, 2020
Above in the middle: The sprouting of the indigenous American co-planting method, The Three Sisters; corn, beans, and pumpkin. May 9, 2020
Above on the right: The girls are doing well! Only a few weeds come though, and pruning the corn takes minimal effort. May 24, 2020
Important addition: This garden is not as far along, but planted on my mom’s property (that was just mowed weeds before) are beans, sweet corn, melons, squashes, and pumpkin. A good friend of hers (who’s ambition started this project) did the plowing. We seeded, and together we all installed the irrigation system. Now we’re expecting a huge harvest, so when it comes time to it, my mom wants to sell her share of excess crops, while I plan on donating my share to as many anarchist groups who will take it.
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