Still harvesting from our garden
Our garden is slowing down but we’re still getting tomatoes, beets, beet greens and chives. And flowers! The weather has been pretty amazing until this past week, sunny and warm… but now, I think our luck turned and the cold is sneaking in for real. So this may be one of the last harvests from our garden before the first frost.
This was our first time planting flowers and I’m just amazed at how rewarding it was. It took a great time for them to grow and bloom, but once they started it’s been non-stop. We’ve being enjoying the flowers for about four months. Thank you Mother Nature! I’m already looking at seeds catalogs for next year.
On Saturday we also harvested some Autumn leaves and coated them with a thin layer of beeswax for the Nature table! Marta and Liliana were the ones who reminded me to do it, so we spend good part of the morning preparing them. Here for some general instructions if you’d like to try it yourself.
Nossa horta está quase no fim mas ainda estamos colhendo tomates, beterrabas e cebolinha. E flores também! O tempo esteve tão bom até semana passada, ensolarado e quente… mas agora, acho que a nossa sorte virou e o frio está se encostando pra valer. Ou seja, essa pode ter sido uma das nossas últimas colheitas antes da primeira geada.
Essa foi a primeira vez que plantamos flores e estou muito feliz com a recompensa. Demorou um bom tempo até elas crescerem e brotarem, mas uma vez que começaram não pararam mais. Há quatro meses temos curtido esse show multicolorido no nosso jardim. Obrigada Mãe Naureza! Já estou de olho no catálogo de sementes para o ano que vem.
No sábado nós também colhemos folhas de outono e as cobrimos com uma camada super fina cêra de abelha para a nossa mesa da natureza. Marta e Liliana é que me lembraram de fazer isso, então passamos boa parte da manhã as preparando. Clique aqui para dicas de como fazê-las se você quiser tentar também.
Very pretty! We harvested one beet this year. I still can’t believe it! After all those little seedlings. After each year of container gardening we learn a bit more but I hope next year we’ll have a bit more of a harvest!
17 Oct 2011 at 2:51 pm
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22 Oct 2011 at 9:49 am
Oh your flowers are just lovely, Luciana. Gardening to me is really magical. Enjoy the tail end of your harvest season.
22 Oct 2011 at 3:56 pm
I only have a few flower plants in my yard but maybe I need to plant more. I never though it would be that rewarding, because, well, you can’t eat them, but now I see they really can be. Vases full of fresh cut flowers? yes please!
and thanks for the link about the besswax coated leaves. Going to check it out because those leaves are beautiful all bright and shiny.
It’s been ages since I stopped by. Hope you and your sweet family are well
23 Oct 2011 at 7:42 pm