Our 2025 garden

We wanted carrots with our supper. I only pulled three as that’s enough for a meal, looks like it’s going to be another good year for carrots.

In the past years we regularly get a few "half pounders" using Pelleted seed from Johnny's seeds.

This is the Bolero variety from one of 2 raised beds. Last year we got 115 pound in total.

Beautiful carrot!

I think I may have achieved carrots this year, but you never know till you pull them, how they really are underground!

I did not need to wait 30 days to braid our onions (20 would have been plenty) but they were stored well on an old screen door, in the shade , under a roof until I found time.

These are Patterson "long keeping" onions we grew. They are a "long storage" onion. A "long day" for those of us that live way up north.

I only braided a few bunches of 12 -15 per braid. Lots of the onions will be stored in the basement on newspaper at 55F in the dark until needed.

I did not do a braiding video since there are so many online. If you are interested, search youtube for a video titled How to Hang Onions for Long Term Storage Easy Old Fashioned Way! She does a good job explaining.

The only other tip I would give to trim EVERY root hair, right, tight to the bottom of the bulb for longer storage since moisture uptake from the air can be a issue and try to braid all same size onions in a bunch.

Glad you're getting some good eat'n ))))

Carrots are now in a stored state for us to pull out and further process as time allows. The same for the last of the cabbage. Butternut squash will just be stored on the basement floor.

More and more beds are getting cleaned up. In their place, Im planting a cover crop of barley/oats/wheat (the same fodder we feed the chickens)

Two rabbits have found their way into the "Garden of Eat'n" and they are focused on this cover crop which means they are leaving everything else alone. That keeps the rabbits out of a stew pot.

Your garden is inspiring, I look forward to seeing each of your updates. Thank you.

As we empty the raised beds in prep for winter, I seed then with a cover crop of wheat, barley and oats. This will be allowed to grow quite tall and then I will crush it all flat and cover it with leaves, then snow.

In the spring, this is all tilled back into the soil to put some nutrition back.

The firsts 2 beds were looking great until 3 rabbits found their way into the  "Garden of Eat'n".  They will soon have many many beds to choose from as they are slowly fattened up this fall. 😉