#Dalvay peas

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Our 2024 Garden: first G Star, plus a kitten update

This morning didn’t need as much time out in the garden. I didn’t do any watering, as the forecast was for rain, possible thunderstorms, this afternoon, with rain continuing through to tomorrow. I should have checked again before I headed out, though. Now we have an only 30% chance of rain in the late afternoon. We might still get rain overnight. Ah, well. The high for today is expected to be…

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Our 2024 Garden: little harvest, with first corn

We’ve got ourselves another hot day today. Our high was supposed to be 26C/79F today, but I’m pretty sure we passed that. I can’t say for sure, since I was mowing the lawn at the time. I’m so thankful that my brother loaned us his smaller riding mower!! I actually got the driveway done! Well… the edges of it, anyhow. We’ll need his tractor and mower attachment to get the rest. Whatever the…

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Our 2024 Garden: harvest - first beans and tomato!

I just got back from my evening rounds, and was able to bring in a little bit of a harvest! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) We have our first beans of the year! The purple Carminat and the green Seychelle pole beans. The one San Marzano tomato I’ve been keeping an eye on was looking ripe, and when I touched it, it fell off the vine on its own. I was…

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Our 2024 Garden: first Purple Beauty

Just a little harvest this morning. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) My apologies for the out of photo picture. 😢 On the left is our very first Purple Beauty pepper! The peppers on the right are the Dragonfly peppers. It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing! The Re-Farmer

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Starry night, tiny harvest and not so tiny fluffball

My daughter heard a possible commotion last night, so I popped out to check on the kitties. No sign of raccoons or skunks, thankfully. It was such a gorgeous night, though, I ended up staying out for a while, and even tried to get some photos of the stars. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) I was just using my phone’s camera, and I didn’t have a tripod.…

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Our 2024 Garden: tiny harvest: first shelling peas!

Woo hoo!!! This morning, we have our first tiny harvest of shelling peas! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) It isn’t a lot, but the more they get picked, the more they will keep producing! These are the Dalvay variety of peas that we got several years ago, and still have lot of seeds left over. There is nothing like peas fresh off the vine! The purple…

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Netting up, and socialization progress

The shelling peas planted in one of the winter squash beds are starting to get tall, so it was time to put up the trellis netting. My older daughter and I headed out early in the morning to avoid the heat. It didn’t really work. 7am, and it was already feeling too hot! The first thing we had to do was steal some of the lighter posts marking the 4′ distances for the low raised beds and attaching…

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Our 2024 Garden: melons, pumpkins, drum gourds, bush beans, pole beans and shelling peas

Yeah, I’m tired. I didn’t get all the stuff on my list done, but my goal was to get most of it, and I managed that! I had intended to start earlier in the day, but ended up unable to sleep for some reason, until about 5 or 6, when I got an hour or so of actual sleep. Not very good sleep, though, as I had several cats draped over me, and I really, really needed to pee! 😄😄 By the time I got out,…

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Unbelievable!

First, in an alarming way, then in a good way. First, a photo of something pleasant. When I finally got outside to do my evening stuff, I was able to pick a bunch of peas and raspberries. It seems quite a lot of our peas have been “topped” by deer, but they seem to like the leaves, and not the pods. I wanted to have that photo first, so no one squeamish sees the next photo in the post…

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Our 2023 garden: an actual little harvest!

While doing my morning rounds for the past while, I’ve been able to snack on the occasional early pea pod. This morning, there were enough of them that I went and got a container to harvest them! Not a large harvest, by any means. Basically, enough for one person – but it’s the real harvest, so I’m happy! I’m glad I broke out the riding mower and mowed as much as I did yesterday. I got most of…

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Our 2023 garden: progress, damage and... damage control?

While doing my morning rounds today, I was thrilled to see SO many pea pods! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) It’s like they all exploded into existence, overnight. I’ve read that peas don’t like to be over watered, but they sure seemed to like the downpour we had! Then, I found this. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer…

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Our 2023 Garden: peas are in!

Our peas are finally in! They could have been planted as soon as the ground could be worked, which was a couple of weeks ago. This row is about 20 feet long. We could succession sow peas elsewhere, but I think that this might actually be enough. Assuming a high germination rate, of course. I really like fresh peas, though, so if we have the space to grow more elsewhere – together with some…

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Morning in the garden

I got some decent progress this morning. I’m also happy to see the garden itself progress. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) The Dalvay peas seemed to just explode overnight, and almost the entire row is filled with pea shoots. The Yukon Chief corn has also seen quite a growth spurt. The beans don’t seem to be doing well this year. I could explain that…

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Our 2023 garden: Veseys seeds, second order arrived

Our 2023 garden: Veseys seeds, second order arrived

The rest of the seeds we ordered from Veseys arrived today. You can read about what we ordered and why, here. It was difficult to get a photo of them all, because the cats immediately came over and tried to roll all over my little display on the bed! You can see Leyendecker in this photo, and then Ginger came in and threw himself bodily onto the Dalvay peas! Speaking of which, I couldn’t shake…