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​The Fisherman's Garden
Garden Report 7/17
Lower Raised Bed In Transition
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This is a picture of the warted hubbard squash from about a month ago. Since then, the squash ripened and the plant began to die back. Rather than letting the squash harden off for winter storage, we cropped it out an took it to the Lenoir Soup Kitchen and made a soup we called "Three Sisters" with corn, black beans and the hubbard squash and crown squash which we picked from our garden. The name is in reference to the three sisters of traditional native American agriculture squash, corn and beans. Many thanks to the crew at the soup kitchen- it was a privelege (and fun) to be able to help.
So, the hubbard squash is out and an heirloom Italian summer squash called Tonda Scuro di Piacenza is planted and already sprouted. Hopefully, we will be getting some production by Labor Day...
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Raised Beds in Transition
​Middle Raised Bed in Transition
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Parts of this bed have changed- Some of the buttercup squash had really started to fade, so we took some of the plants out- some critter had attacked the lower stems of the plants that were failing. Some of the plants are still thriving and developing a second round of squash so we will see how that goes.
The pepper plants (lower left in the photo) have been moved to the upper bed, making room for the hierloom Edmonson white cucumbers which are sprouted in pots, but not quite ready for transplant.
We planted another variety of Hierloom summer squash called Striata D' Italia on the hot side of the bed under the remaining buttercup where we removed a couple of sick plants.The first photo is of the east side of the bed (morning- cool), the peppers have been moved to the west (afernoon- hot) side of the upper bed where they should do better.
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Upper Raised Bed in Transition
​The bed on the right, behind the upside-down bucket garden has several changes this week. The cukes died back and were removed making room for the pepper plants transplanted from the middle bed (see second photo) and an extra heirloom summer squash called Cocozella Di Napoli was planted.
All of the changes in the raised beds were to try to get a second wave of squash and cucumbers in the later part of the summer. The point of no return is rapidly approaching for plantings of summer vegetables- if they are not in the ground in the next few days they probably will not produce before fall comes and getting more vegetables to set will be impossible. We are luck to live in an area where the Summer growing season is so long!