Marge's Gardens

Even though I've done precious little in the garden this year, the take care of themselves and feed our family.

Hello, ! These gorgeous are blooming like crazy. Thanks to for these lovely . We got three last year and added a fourth plant a couple weeks ago.

Happy in the front

2023 was the year of neglected houseplants. 🤷‍♀️ I just repotted my mother aloe... and her 34 babies. So, uh, yeah. Let me know if you'd like one or two.

The is ready for !

An imposter emerges...🥸

We've been having some weather 🙃
So I made some from last fall's harvest, still keeping well in baskets in the basement. It's not fancy, but a hearty soup hits the spot on a cold day. So much the better if it's .

First officially started! These are six sets of for the Minnesota .

It was a morning thanks to the gorgeous and from our friends at . Delicious 😋

'Bout that time, eh?

Well, hello, . That's a about to . In . In February.

Here's our last of 2023 from late October. one last sad tomato, a that rotted instead of drying, and our who was not thrilled about being photographed like a doll.

from mid October. I made 7 quarts of in addition to the gazillion tomatoes that we ate fresh.

I harvested our about three weeks ago, and they had to wait a while to be processed (had a baby and all that). I kept them in a cold room until I could juice and strain them this weekend. I'll use the juice to make soon.

These are all from a single vine of . I think it was in the neighborhood of about 20 pounds.

Here is our . These are from . This was our first time growing sweet potatoes in our northern climate. They taste good and are very pretty, even when cooked, but the yield was not very abundant. That could be from our climate and light limitations, user error, etc. It's always fun to try new and exotic cultivars in the garden.

Hot tip: if you procrastinate planting your tubers until August, you'll get in late October, which is actually kind of nice. So, oh well 🤷‍♀️.

Our and (4 types total) was pretty abundant this year. I am doing a mediocre job of curing them for storage. 🤷‍♀️

It's day! I made 18 pints of from our . And there are still more coming. Shout-out to my mom for the fresh and to for my grandma Gert's recipe.

Our took a few sessions of digging over a couple of days because I'm rather pregnant, and my helper is three years old 🙃 . We managed to 35 lbs of this season.

from the last three days

These are chonkiest I've ever grown.

Our the last few days has been amazing. our first few . This is what we've been waiting for.

We went out of town for a few days, and holy moly, our beans went bonkers while we were gone.

Here is some of yesterday's to share with family this week.

and !

Like everything else this year, our veggies are setting fruit rather late. I am looking forward to more than ever.

Our are gorgeous right now 😍!

overlap! The are wrapping up, and the and are just beginning to ripen.

❤️