13/09/2025
Over the last two months, while the flowers have been few, the produce has been making up for it. This wasn’t intentional- the lack of rain in mid July through August made things grow slowly, particularly since we actually don’t do a lot of irrigating. We have a shared well either the community and our clay soil gives us a bit more buffer in times like this but I’m always cognizant of not using up too much water.
Nevertheless, we have been having abundant harvests. Here are two new fruits I’ve never grown
1) butternut squash is really no different than growing zucchini. The difference is I have never bought seed or grown it. This was a volunteer bc we compost our food waste and our neighbor gave us some of his butternut squash. I have so much butternut squash and I am excited bc it stores well!
2) cantaloupe is a new one for us. There are some things that taste great but somehow are even better when you grow it and cantaloupe is one of them. One plant has been producing close to a DOZEN cantouple!! I will be growing this again next year!
I spend a lot of my weekend hours preserving, making things like kimchi, tomato sauce, or freezing what I’ve grown. It’s nice to known we will have some homegrown food to sustain us even after the field stops producing!
Hopefully next year, we will have more flowers around this time. I’m still learning and 🤞🏼we will have a lot more flowers in a few weeks!
