6 pints of Zucchini Sweet Garlic Dills on a towel covered rack.

Tonight's hilarity part 2: Zucchini Sweet Garlic Dills, 6 pints.

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8 pints of Zucchini Quick Sour pickles on a towel covered canning rack.

Tonight's hilarity part 1: Zucchini Quick Sours, 8 pints.

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7 pints of Pickled Yellow Pepper Rings on towel covered rack.

Tonight's hilarity: 3+ pounds of Hungarian Hot Wax peppers processed into 7 pints of Pickled Yellow Pepper Rings, and a load of dishes.

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14 quarts of green beans on towel covered racks.

I got the second half of the green beans done after the dye party, 14 more quarts. Hopefully they all seal.

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14 quarts of green beans after being removed from the canner on racks with bar towels on top, on the dining room table.

Canning season has officially commenced. 14 quarts of green beans. I probably have about that much to do tomorrow after the dye party as well.

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Green beans in 2 twelve quart and 1 eighteen quart Cambro containers

Hot wax peppers in a cardboard Berry tray

Zucchini and summer squash in three 12x18 inch aluminum trays.

Garden update: More hot wax peppers, about 42 quarts of beans, and a boat load of zucchini and summer squash. Those aluminum trays are 12x18 inches.

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Bright green garlic scape pesto starter in quart freezer bags.

I finally processed the garlic scapes today into scape pesto starter for the freezer, and I threw some in the roasted garlic hummus I made for yarn dyeing party tomorrow.

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Metal raised beds. Today's planting included 2 kinds of daikon, Chinese Shawo Fruit Radish, red beets, white beets, 3 kinds of cukes, rutabaga, kohlrabi, Golden Ball turnip, French Breakfast radish, nasturtium, Hamburg parsley, dill, cilantro, mung beans, Calypso beans, yellow wax beans, green beans, lima beans, zucchini, summer squash, Boston Marrow squash, Blach Futsu squash, and Red Kuri squash.

Metal raised beds. Today's planting included 2 kinds of daikon, Chinese Shawo Fruit Radish, red beets, white beets, 3 kinds of cukes, rutabaga, kohlrabi, Golden Ball turnip, French Breakfast radish, nasturtium, Hamburg parsley, dill, cilantro, mung beans, Calypso beans, yellow wax beans, green beans, lima beans, zucchini, summer squash, Boston Marrow squash, Blach Futsu squash, and Red Kuri squash.

All the damn beds are planted. Now I just have to deal with the pots. See alt text in pics for what I planted.

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3 pounds of coffee roasted, each variety in a half gallon glass jar.

I'll be okay for a couple of weeks now, lol.

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3 varieties of green coffee beans from Sweet Maria's.

Next on the agenda as we are dangerously low.

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Dead pepper plants from last summer grown in pots in my greenhouse.

This season's pepper seedling plants in pots with drip irrigation in my greenhouse.

This season's pepper seedling plants in pots with drip irrigation in my greenhouse

This season's pepper seedling plants in pots with drip irrigation in my greenhouse

Yesterday, we finished the greenhouse. There's 146 pepper plants and 4 pots of lovage. First pic is before and the rest are after.

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Cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and kale plants, as well as onion, shallot and leek plants in raised metal beds mulched with woodchips.

Cabbage, celeriac, and Hungarian Blue Bread Seed Poppy plants in raised metal beds mulched with woodchips.

All the cabbage, kale, and Chinese cabbage varieties, the celeriac, and the Hungarian Blue Bread Seed Poppies are in beds. Tomorrow, we will work on getting the pepper plants in the greenhouse while it's raining.

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Metal raised bed with onion plants mulched with woodchips with the paths covered with landscape fabric.

Metal raised bed with onion, leek snd shallot plants mulched with woodchips with the paths covered with landscape fabric.

All the rest of the Redwing and Blush onions from Dixondale, and the various varieties of onions, leeks and shallots I grew from seed are in beds. I'll be working on cabbage and kale this afternoon. Shawn did the landscape fabric.

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Metal raised bed planted with onions and mulched with wood chips.

One bed done, leeks, shallots, Patterson yellow onions, and Sterling white onions. We also picked up 36 bags of composted cow manure to refresh the established raised beds and the pots in the greenhouse for peppers.

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Picture of rhubarb plants next to a grill for scale.

After getting the 149 tomato plants repotted and in the half-assed greenhouse, we got the leek plants and 2/3 of the shallot plants from Dixondale in the new raised beds. My rhubarb is happy with all the rain.

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New raised metal bed filed with compost and soil, along previously established metal raised beds.

2 new raised metal beds filed with compost and soil, behind previously established metal raised beds.

Progress Update: We took advantage of the break in the rain and added the 84 bags of compost and soil to the three new beds. Now we just need to do the irrigation and add some mulch.

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Seedlings in trays on chrome shelving with lights

Seedlings in trays on chrome shelving with lights

Garden update 2: progress pics on my seedlings in the house.

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Picture of a Rhubarb plant beginning to come back.

White and yellow daffodils blooming, surrounded by all the leaves I didn't rake.

Yellow daffodils blooming, surrounded by all the leaves I didn't rake.

Redwing, Sterling, Patterson, Blush and Red Tropea onion plants and shallots plants laying in aluminum chafing trays until I can plant them this weekend.

Garden update 1: Rhubarb, daffodils, and my onion and shallot plants arrived.

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Metal raised bed with layer of woodchips in.

Metal raised beds with layer of woodchips in.

Picture of the area where my wood chip pile was with a wheelie stool 2 shovels and a bunch of tomato cages in the background.

Progress Update 2: we got the wood chip layer in. Each 3x3 foot section took 4 to 6 five gallon buckets, and there were 21 sections, so that was fun. Also, my wood chip pile down by the garden is almost gone.

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Picture yard showing piles gone

Metal raised beds with chopped branches in them.

Metal raised beds with chopped branches in them.

Progress update: Moving slower than I would like, but it's my first real gardening work of the season and I need to build up stamina. I got all the chopped up branches in the beds, but it only filled half of them.

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A picture of piles of chopped up tree branches getting ready to be loaded in the bottoms of raised metal garden beds.

Progress update: I finished chopping up the pile from when we pruned the trees to put in the bottoms of the beds, except for a couple of branches that I need to get the the polesaw out for. I'll start loading beds after lunch.

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Piles of chopped branches and twigs on a dead lawn next to two gardening stools on wheels.

Progress update: Shawn and I picked up 82 bags of soil and compost at Black Forest (3 trips with my truck) and started chopping up the pile from pruning the trees for the bottoms of the beds. We'll see if I can walk tomorrow, lol.

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A picture of a completed metal raised bed in a U shape lined with hardware cloth.

A picture of a completed metal raised bed 3 by 21 feet lined with hardware cloth.

Progress update: Shawn and I finished the second U bed. We built the L bed I bought, but instead, we assembled it in a straight line, 3 x 21 feet. Now we just have to fill them and run irrigation.

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Picture of my backyard when it is snowing very hard.

The first day of the week of vacation that I took to build more raised hugelkulture beds and prep the garden for planting, lol. Hopefully, it will melt fast.

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A picture of the seed starting schedule spreadsheet printed out with the labels prepared for the six cell inserts.

This weekend's agenda for seed starting: mustard greens and swiss chard.

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3.5 pounds of home roasted coffee in 3 half gallon mason jars.

3.5 pounds done. Now I have to go set up the light timer for the second seed starting shelving unit and plant the next 4 or so trays.

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3 varieties of green coffee beans that I will be roasting today.

Part of today's agenda.

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A picture of the seed starting schedule spreadsheet printed out with the labels prepared for the seed starting inserts.

This weekend's agenda for seed starting: more herbs and some marigolds.

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Picture of this week's seed starting schedule and the plant labels. 14 kinds of tomatoes.

This weekend's agenda for seed starting, mostly flowers, tomatillos, sage, and lovage.

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Seed starting trays on a chrome wire shelving set, rigged up with plant lights.

I can put 5 more trays on this set of shelves, and then I'll have to go to the upstairs set. Which means I have to finish cleaning the stuff off of the upstairs set.

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