Monday, May 25, 2009

fava time

front house fava 09 All week we've been shucking fava beans. I have my beans from Peru a decade a go lovingly grown year after year. The seeds were a deep purple when I first started but some other fava dust must have wafted into my garden as I've started getting a strain of mottled purple fava beans.
Fava harvest

Saturday, May 23, 2009

2009 Crops

Normally I squirrel away my harvest notes in my blue notebook but thought it was time to record them here.

Jan-April - Arugula
May-Fava Harvest

Summer Plantings
Tomatoes
-Black Zebra (from Westbrae)
-Momotoro(tough boy from Westbrae)
-Pink Caspian
-Wapsipinicon Peach (from seed)
-mamma mia roma (dumpster,) in back patch
-patio tomato (dumpster)
-Old German (A Mennonite heirloom from Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.. 75d-85d)
-Great White

Squash
-Bella de Nizza
-Tondo di Chiaro

Corn
Strawberry Popcorn
Berkely Bowl Popcorn

Bean
- Rattle Snake Snap Bean
- Painted Lady

Greens
-Yugoslavian Red (from seed)
-Dino Kale (from seed)
- Red mustard (from seed)
- Red Russian Kale (from seed)
- 7 Top Turnip Greens (not yet sprouted)
-Bordeaux Spinach (dumpster)
-Marathon Broccoli(dumpster)
-Rainbow Chard(dumpster)