Carrots

I sowed the seeds last fall, not sure of the timing, and the carrots have been growing and growing. The tops were soooo tall! I am pulling most of them so my beans have room to grow. I'll leave a few that are smaller. Made carrot soup tonight. It was ok, not great. Elisa ate 3 carrots before dinner though.

Yummy Lettuce at Bergan Farm

What's growing at Bergan Farms?

Arugula LOVES my yard. It is growing like a weed. I will have many seeds so I'll pass them on to you.

Cilantro also LOVES my yard. I always have great luck with it. I heart Cilantro. I have to say that one of my favorite time of day is when I'm cooking dinner and I walk out with a pair of scissors to my garden and cut this and that. What a wonderful life! I have other pictures that I will post soon. Farmer T signing off.

my beds

Here are some pictures of my planter beds. Finally got around to taking pictures. :)

One of my little blueberry bushes in back (we have a handful of blueberries growing on our 3 small plants...it's funny how giddy we are about the 15 or so berries we'll probably get this year! A few years down the road it will be even more exciting)...also a few strawberries and some cantaloupe sprouts that I'll have grow out to the left.
Along this fence I planted new blackberries and raspberries, as well as some transplants from another area of my yard. Hope to eventually have tons of berries growing on this fence. :)
One of my grapes that is almost ready to reach the cables!
This is my tomato bed...red cherry tomatoes and yellow pear.
Some of the plants are really tiny, but I have cucumber, beets, eggplants, red and green peppers, radishes and jalapenos.
Here's my long planter bed...on the closest side I have carrots, lettuce on the left, romaine on the right and celery(used some in my chicken salad yesterday) and swiss chard in the middle....

...here's the other end....on the side closest I have zucchini, tomatillo, red onions, scallions, green beans and peas.

Happy gardening!

Fava Bean Harvest

So yesterday I decided to harvest all my fava beans. Took some time shelling them and I'm happy to say I got quite a lot from my crop! :) Going to use them in dinner tonight and tomorrow. It is so delightful to grow something in the garden and get to use it in your meal!! I was also happy to free up a ton of space because the favas were taking over more than half of one of my planter beds. I planted some roma tomato seeds there, a yellow squash and some more herbs. Did a lot of plant thinning as well. I do have a lot more yellow pear tomatoes, eggplants, and jalapenos growing than I need. I'm letting them grow bigger and then if anyone would like some I can do my best to carefully dig them up and you can try and transplant them in your garden. Just let me know.

Farmer A's Farm

Hi Ladies!

I am so excited this year and going pretty crazy. Interesting in seed sharing Farmer T. I have tons of seeds to share and would love to check out what you have for when Laborer Pete builds my last big planter bed soon and I can get more stuff in the ground. Thanks!

Here's what I have going and I too will post pics soon.

Winter garden:

red swiss chard

celery

carrots

romaine lettuce

fava beans

red and yellow onions

Here's what's new for spring!

cucumber

zucchini

eggplant

radish

beets

tomatoes (yellow pear, cherry, roma)

peas

green beans

tomatillos

cantaloupe

strawberries

watermelon

red/yellow onions

green onions

jalapenos

bell peppers

I was a dork and didn't label anything, remember where some are, but others will be surprises as them come up. Most of my plants are sprouted and growing, a few I bought as plants. Lots of herbs too...sage, thyme, oregano, rosemary, parsley, cilantro, basil.

I also have lots of berries (3 blueberry, lots of black and raspberry), 4 different grapes, and added some new trees to my yard this year. May be a while until I have fruit, but I am patient and can't wait! Added a fuji apple, bing cherry, plum, elberta peach, white peach, pomegranate, satsuma, and clementine. Wow, when I write it all down it seems like a lot. These are all tiny, cheap trees so I know it will be a while. The great find I discovered for fruit trees/bushes/berries is Whole Foods. Really nice quality, Duarte Farms plants from Fresno...tons of different trees ($10 each), tons of berries ($6 each), and citrus trees/bushes ($13 each). Costco also had last I went very large blueberry bushes (3 gallon pots) with tons of blueberries on them already growing for $20. Pretty good deal for how huge the plants already are. Anyhow I'll stop blabbering on for now. Hope to have lots of stuff to share with you all this summer. I'm optimistic!! :)

Seed Sharing?

By the way, I have so many seeds. If you're interested in a seed exchange, let me know.

Farmer T

Cats?????

So a fellow Farmer gave me a great tip on keeping cats out of your garden beds...it might sound gross but it WORKS!

Human urine. Yes, I know that seems odd but just have your son (if you have one) go out and pee around the beds (not in them). The scent of the human urine keeps the cats away. Since Taro has been doing this, no cats. It's amazing.

Thank you Farmer M

What's growing at the Bergan Farm?

Hello Farmers,

So I don't have pictures yet but here's what I've planted at my farm:
Carrots (sprouted)
Lettuce (mix; sprouted)
Cilantro (sprouted)
Tomato
Cucumber (Japanese variety)
Arugula (sprouted)
Radish (sprouted)
Eggplant

I will post pictures when I have more.

Farmer T

Getting Growin'

I finally feel happy with what is growing in our garden! We have some Romaine (sprouted and just planted), beets, carrots, broccoli (not big at all but oh-so-tasty!), peas. I planted these a while back and they are doing well. This weekend planted Tomatoes (yellow pear, a big orange type, and lots of plum). Hoping they do well, as last year the tomotoes all got some fungus thing... I've also planted my green beans, two rounds, but the first round hasn't sprouted yet, and I thought they should have by now. I set out some more seeds yesterday, so if they are not up in the next two weeks, I'm buying some plants from the nursery.
-Farmer K

The raised beds and two containers for Tomatoes. I planted two plants in each container, as an experiment on space-saving.


Some strawberries waiting for their containers! Two types, hopefully we will get a continuous harvest. I will put one of each type in a 1 gallon pot.