Gardening Update Ate-Ate 2011

[robby]

The protective shading of the second avocado has helped, and new leaf clusters have sprouted. Most of the lavender cuttings have expired, but I still have a couple that are green, so I'm golden.

One little insight about gardening: With harvesting and preparing produce for storage, when it's time -you have to just do it. You can't get lazy or put if off, you're subject to nature's schedule, not your own.

I've picked ten eggplant so far, and there have to be forty more developing.
Ive decided to freeze eggplant, squash, and beans, can tomatoes, and freeze dry the hot peppers. Last year, I freeze-dried the squash, but I wasn't able to reconstitute them properly, and that limited how I used them.

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[robby.livejournal.com]

There are still small beans developing on that first course, but few flowers. I do have about 3 months until first frost, so if I were clever, I could get another crop. Some people grow okra in late summer, but I have so much to do already, and it might be good for the soil to just leave the beans, as you said.