Cover Crop. End of Growing Season
We have harvested all the produce from the gardens and planted the cover crop in all the rows. It's coming up nicely. We have some...
Winthrop Estate
- Oct 11
- 1 min
Dried Beans
I love growing beans to dry. I guess I love it because I think of them as more protein than vegetable and I eat them all year. These...
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Winthrop Estate
- Oct 10
- 1 min
Calendula Flowers
We planted these for the bees. We saw lots of them coming to feast. We did harvest some of the flowers and seeds. This mix is called...
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Winthrop Estate
- Oct 8
- 1 min
Sumac
We harvested sumac too early in the season. But we were able to harvest more of it late in the fall and that worked! The fuzz off these...
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Winthrop Estate
- Oct 4
- 1 min
Black Mint
I had never eaten Huacatay mint before but it sounded interesting so I got a small packet of seeds and we started them under the grow...
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Winthrop Estate
- Sep 30
- 1 min
Hot Hot Hot Peppers Peppers Peppers
We planted lanterns peppers, cayenne peppers, serrano peppers, and poblano peppers. And they all were very productive, so we got a ton...
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Winthrop Estate
- Sep 25
- 1 min
What's Growing?
Oooh, I love these gifts from Mother Nature! We have sweet peppers. I should have planted more! And we have some celery. This stuff is...
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Winthrop Estate
- Sep 20
- 1 min
A Sweet Treat
Have you ever sucked on a fiberous 'stick' of sugarcane? Maybe you are in a far off place, and your host takes a knife and slices a cane...
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Winthrop Estate
- Sep 14
- 1 min
Popping Corn
This is not my popping corn. It went to the birds. My dreams of bowls of home grown popped corn apparently will remain dreams. My...
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Winthrop Estate
- Sep 9
- 1 min
Colorful Corn
This is our second bunch of painted corn. It's usually used decoratively, but each one of ours has something not quite perfect about it,...
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Winthrop Estate
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Harvesting
A tray of cayenne peppers, and one sweet pepper. We could leave these out until they get red, or let them turn red off the plant. ...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 27
- 1 min
Lavender
Second try, or maybe third, we started a tray of lavender from seed. It's very exciting to see a few seeds actually sprouted and we now...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 22
- 1 min
Black Locus
This is a small black locus tree. We found many tall straight ones that were about 3" in diameter for much of their trunks and we cut...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 17
- 1 min
Caught, Briefly
I finally caught, with my glance, one of the deer who is eating the tender green leaves of the berry bushes, and hostas, and arbor vitae....
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 15
- 1 min
Shiso/Perilla
This plant grows very well around here. It tastes like a sharp sesame flavor. You may have had it in Asian cooking, maybe raw on sushi...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Spicy
This year we decided to grow a lot of hot peppers because we eat some form of hot sauce a few times a week and I would like to try making...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Taken for Granted
Now that the fence is built, I walk right by it most weeks. But, do not take for granted a well built rabbit fence! I decided to pause...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 13
- 1 min
Seeds of Lavender
Our first batch of lavender seeds didn't take. Too moist. We couldn't find any local lavender plants or plugs or seeds, so we looked at...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 12
- 1 min
Early August, First
This plum tomato gets the prize for being ready first! This picture is from a week or two ago, I don't even remember when. I got...
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Winthrop Estate
- Aug 12
- 1 min
Our Main Crop
We planted a lot of tomatoes this year. We tried out 4 kinds. I'm not sure if the reality of how many tomatoes we will have has quite...
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The Farm at the Winthrop Estate