My Edible Garden

I've been gardening for most of my life and have been a devoted fan of organic gardening the whole time. It just makes so much more sense to work in harmony with Mother Nature than to fight her. Besides which it is better for the planet and better for our bodies. Here you can see what I'm planting and harvesting, with gardening hints and resources thrown in for good measure.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Harvest Monday

yellow zuchinni
Welcome to Harvest Monday, a great blog hop sponsored by Daphne, where gardeners all around the world show off their harvests, please consider joining in! The more the merrier!

This week is short of harvests, not because there weren't things to pick but because of lack of time to pick and process; This week the work schedule is a little lighter, so next Monday's post will hopefully be a bit heavier on the pics!



Besides this overgrown yellow zuchinni (it's supposed to be yellow, btw) I picked some tomatoes, herbs and such.
squash on the roof

I also climbed up on the roof, there are a bunch more squash growing up there! Mostly tromboncino and spaghetti.








veggie soup stock and peachy pear butter


I did a little canning, some veggie soup stock and some peach-pear butter. The white stuff on the jars is the calcium from our hard water. It wipes off pretty easily.








banty chicks
Of course the news of the week is that 17 out of 20 eggs hatched! 4 were Welsummers, which I'll keep and all 13 of the banty eggs hatched, which I"m selling. 6 are already spoken for and there is some interest in the other 7. Good thing because at the moment the poultry project is deeply in the red with the cost of original birds and feed. Right now the Welsummers have quit laying and my young Buff Orpinton pullets haven't started yet, tho I expect them to any day now.

I did butcher out one of the Muscovy drakes and dressed weight was 4 pounds, 3oz. I had to skin him tho because when I went to start plucking discovered that he wasn't actually done molting. So will wait until November to do the rest. I don't know what value to give this meat tho, no body here sells duck meat and the gourmet order online place is so outrageous, I don't want to use their price! (About $50 for two Muscovy breasts!) Can you buy duck where you live? What is the going price for whole birds?
Posted by Mary Hysong at 8:44 AM
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5 comments:

  1. Cozy Thyme CottageOctober 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM

    Hi!I didn't know there were yellow zuchini. Do they taste the same as the green? Your canning does look so yummy! Very cute picture of the chicks. I would probably want to make them pets! Nancy

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  2. kitsapFGOctober 8, 2012 at 1:22 PM

    Cannot help you with pricing the duck meat, but I must say that those chicks are darling. :D

    Was a light harvest week for me too because of other commitments. Here's wishing both of us a less complicated week ahead.

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  3. DebbieOctober 9, 2012 at 7:27 AM

    They dont sell much duck here where I live and If You are lucky to get in a restrarant its quite costly!

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  4. Norma ChangOctober 9, 2012 at 3:09 PM

    Those chicks are so cute. That's a lovely yellow zucchini.

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  5. Bee GirlOctober 10, 2012 at 6:51 PM

    Wow...I wish i could help you with the price of duck. Sounds like it's quite a delicacy! That yellow zuke looks delicious!

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