How to handle a peach harvest!

I was wondering what to do with my peach harvest… One measly peach! SO how to maximize this one sparse yet delicious and sweet peach? I decided to make a peach shortcake! Easy to prepare just like strawberry short cake, except substitute sliced peaches for the strawberry’s!

Rob Johnson- Apple Farmer

I was out taking some stuff out of the garden and happened to look at the columnar apple trees- one of them had 3 apples on it. That's 3 more than last year! Two of the "apple sticks" are still growing and have no apples yet. These three and the apples that grow over the fence will make a nice pie or cobbler!

Chard By The Yard

In deference to Kale For Sale, Burien should make it's motto "Chard By The Yard", For some reason unknown to me, Swiss Chard grows here very easily, as seen in these pic's from the SUBU Community garden. I know I had chard winter over last winter in my own garden, and it is the one thing I can count own growing here. Good thing I like it!

Good Day in the Garden

Had a good day today- harvested some Hungarian wax peppers some carrots,some kale, a couple of golden bell peppers, beets, acorn squash and two of the puniest watermelons you ever saw

The frame of one of my fall covers

Fall cover bagged- this is one of the large bags I had planned to use on the canopy frame for a roof- but wasn't large enough

The canopy frame- anyone have any suggestions let me know~!

Told you the melons were puny, but i got melons this year! Just don't plant them to close to the apples- don't want them to get a complex!

What to do about Jack?

Wondering what to do about that pumpkin your little angels (or you) just carved? Well according to Jeff Yeager, who writes the green cheapskate blog on Daily Green - Use it All- he claims you can use it to make pie (puree) or make a casserole out of the parts you cut out of the pumpkin for the eyes nose and mouth, pickled pumpkin rinds and of course seeds. Recipes on his blog If you still aren’t convinced and want to find a more sustainable way to dispose of your Jack O’ Lantern , and you live in the Seattle Area, you can take it to the Night of 1,000- pumpkins Celebration at the Burien Interim Art Space (B/IAS) across from the Town Square Park in Downtown Burien. Remember to bring a candle to light your pumpkin and become a willing participant in an outdoor art project. They will gladly compost it for you, too.
The community Garden members will also be there to say goodbye to the garden. We don’t know if there will be a spot for the garden elsewhere in the city, the parks department is working hard on it. I am hoping for it. It has been a fun year. More about that in another post soon!

What to do on a sunday morning

What to do on a nippy fall morning? Go out and clear out the "squash box"

Pretty good haul if I say so myself and I just did- 6 Pumpkins, 2 spaghetti squash, and a bird gourd. Pretty good haul for a 4X4 box and I haven't finished the summer squash yet- or the acorn squash for that matter! Now to puree those pumpkins!