Grapes, Mud Badminton, Cucumbers and Late Summer Harvesting

From the country...

First harvest off our grape vines - SUPER excited about it!!

Millie playing some mud badminton...

It has sure been a great year for cucumbers!

As you can probably tell this growing season has been busy (hence my lack of online activity). It has been a super exciting season though and we are pulling in a ton of produce. I could go on and on about the onions (I won't though for fear of boring you to tears) but the beans have been prolifically amazing as well, the cucumber harvest was great, the eggplant keep on trucking and the tomatoes (despite some blight) are making a comeback! Not so much for the melons... There is so much to report on but not enough day light hours!

I look forward to the fall. I have been swooning over this year's curry squash, we are working on the fall head lettuces, the radicchio planting is in and the sweet potatoes plants look great.

Sweet potatoes vines

Gorgeous curry squash.

 Ahh.. Late summer harvest...

Onions, onions and more onions

From the country...

onion seed

Fresh harvested Red Tropeana Lunga onions

I have professed my undying love for growing/eating/cooking/preserving onions for a long time now. This year I have upped that love and have gone large with growing onions in a big way. Half of my crops this year are onions. I have red onions, torpedo onions, chipolini onions (both red and white), various varieties of green onions, yellow multiplier onions, Stuttgarter onion sets (a German cooking onion) and shallots.

The fancy onions I have grown from seed. The seed was started in March and are just now becoming ready to harvest. It is a bit of a commitment but well worth the wait- not to mention I think I may have figured how to grow onions well. I have this picture in my head of baskets upon baskets of onions in all of their oniony glory at our market table.  I may even have an onion out their that could be a red ribbon winner for largest onion at the local agricultural fair this year. Just saying...