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.

Comments

[sammason.livejournal.com]

I totally agree about the harvesting and storing. It's too easy to forget about those tasks and this is probably why, on allotment sites such as the one where I garden, masses of good crops go to waste. In theory I suppose that harvest time sounds like a highlight but for me, it's a time of chores. Worth it, though, when the stored food gets onto my plate for months afterwards! I hope your harvest is going well this year.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Didn't know you could freeze eggplant. Huh!