Andy & Cara's Vegetable Garden

2009-09-25T20:25:00.000-07:00

Tilling at the "Zipline" (because there is a little zipline there) farm on Townshipline and Gladwin...more land we are using that belongs to another of Cara's uncles.

2009-09-14T14:52:00.000-07:00

Thanks for your patience with the posting. Our camera died mid-summer. We have another on loan. You can view pictures now from July.
We have two new sites we are preparing for next season.

2009-09-08T14:42:00.000-07:00

Another site...more tilling for next season. Tilling at "Blueberry Springs" location. We are using some land of Cara's uncle's here.

2009-09-04T14:39:00.000-07:00

Tilling up new ground for next season.

2009-09-03T14:21:00.000-07:00

2009-08-29T14:13:00.000-07:00

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2009-07-01T21:44:00.000-07:00

Potato blossoms.

2009-06-27T21:35:00.000-07:00

Bagging and weighing.

2009-06-24T21:40:00.000-07:00

Weeding broccoli and resting.

2009-06-17T10:55:00.000-07:00

Andy is working on putting up a deer fence around the garden.

2009-06-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

Zucchini and

Pumpkin (left).

Pepper and tomatoe.

Potatoes (above), cabbage.

photos by Andy.

Welcome to our garden blog...

2009-06-04T15:13:00.000-07:00

Hello. Thought I'd start a garden blog to keep track of some of our gardening activities and to keep in touch with our customers.Things have been busy for Andy lately, that's for sure. Sarah and I have been out to help a few times, picking root clumps, dead grass, rocks and a few sticks out of the beds. Once we brought a tent for shade, but it got pretty hot in the tent and now we have a small umbrella for shade.
The greenhouse is set up at the garden too - the tomato plants love the heat we are having lately. This is the same greenhouse we had in Princeton. Andy installed some lower vents so the greenhouse can move next season and the plants it gets moved over do not get squashed.

2009-06-04T13:16:00.000-07:00

Tomato.

Brocolli (above) and lettuce.

Squash (above) and green bean.

photos by Andy.

2009-05-30T13:14:00.000-07:00

2009-05-24T13:02:00.000-07:00

There's a bit of shade found next to the greenhouse.

Transplanting squash (above).

working together

2009-05-19T10:26:00.000-07:00

Sarah loves to help and has been enjoying finding worms, larvae and 'planting' her bouquet in a unprepared bed.
When we arrived to help Andy, it was pouring rain and we spent a lot of time in the greenhouse...then came some better weather and we could get out and help in the main garden.

Brocolli.

getting started

2009-05-08T15:03:00.000-07:00

Our garden is located on some property belonging to Andy's Dad's cousin - out on Bradner Rd. and McTavish. Vic, this cousin, whom we refer to as Andy's uncle, grows blueberries and graciously and enthusiastically offered to allow us to use almost a 1/4 acre for our first 'small-scale' market gardening venture. Andy drives his brother's (James, away on Mercy Ships mission trip) scooter to the farm almost every day.
This picture was taken on May 8, 2009.

a visit

2009-05-03T16:03:00.000-07:00

On May 3, Lando, Kathy (Cara's parents) and Elijah and Eva (Cara's sister's oldest kids) came to the garden for a visit with Sarah and I...it was a full van load. The kids enjoyed Vic's chickens and basically ran out to the garden, down the road.

Andy was finishing off the framing of the greenhouse.

Grandma packed snacks and we enjoyed a break together.

After a walk to the end of the blueberry field Elijah and Eva were running out of energy.

Andy is applying Complete Organic Fertilizer (COF).

very near the start

2009-04-18T20:30:00.000-07:00

April 18th Sarah and I went to the Bradner Flower show with my Mom. We visited our new garden site for the first time that day. The soil has been turned over and the grass is beginning to die.