In the Garden
This blog is going to be short and sweet. The garden did okay but last year it was better (insert sad face here). Here is a video tour of the garden so most of the information can be found in that...
We had a bumper crop of onions. I harvested them yesterday and laid them out to dry. Last year, I kind of layered them on top of each other for drying and then they started to mold while in storage. I think it is really important to keep them all separated so they can cure and dry out completely.
I like to store carrots and beets in our root cellar. I pack them in damp sand. 
I also do a lot of drying. I pick flowers and let them air dry. These will be fed to the chickens and ducks as treats this winter. Here is a pic of some nasturtium and yarrow flowers. We also harvest lavender, marigold, chamomile, calendula, and probably some other things that I am forgetting...parsley, sage, dill and comfry foliage...
Pic of lettuce (saving for seed), eggplant and watermelon vines in the water trough raised bed...
I think that one problem is that we put new wood chips down on the garden and I did not dig down far enough to get things rooted in the soil below when I planted. I enjoy the Back-to-Eden style gardening for some things (tomatoes, squash, and corn) but it seems that the raised beds did better this year. We will be making some more raised beds this fall for next years garden.
Happy gardening!
~Denise
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