Entries in garden (38)

Thursday
Apr142011

garden

Since I have been feeling better, this is what I have been doing after work.  I have been putting in my vegetable garden.  It is mostly eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes.  But we also put in another fig and four very healthy thornless blackberry plants.  My Beloved and I like fruit and are trying to grow as much as possible of our own.

The funny thing was when I went and looked around my beds, how many volunteers we have.  We planted six tomato plants from the farmers market.  But then I spread old seed and I found out my Beloved had gone about put the over right fruit in the ground last year.  We actually have sixteen or twenty tomato plants.  I do not know what we are going to do with them all!  There is also volunteer amaranth, beans, and watermelon!  

And then whatever random "oh, lets plant these old seeds and see if anything comes up in the flower bed."  I have a pumpkin plant from that.

All I can is that next fall, I am going to have enough compost for sheet mulching, even if I have to buy it!

Friday
Oct082010

winter garden and Russell's newest knife (that left the house already!)


I got the winter garden in last weekend and I am waiting for my seeds to sprout.  I had some of the grass come back already.  I may need to go to Joshua's and get some vegetables to transplant.

The one eggplant bush that made it is turning into a tree again.  There are three or four eggplant that are growing and just need to get bigger.  The tomatoes and watermelon have blooms so I am hoping that we will get some fruit and vegetables.  By the way, did you know that tomatoes are fruit and watermelon are vegetables?

The peppers are a profuse as ever and I need to fill the freezer with chili and chilaquila.  

Russell finished this knife while I was at work.  It is a seven inch Santoku style blade.  It is absolutely beautiful and well balanced.  He took it to our naturopath's office and one of the ladies there bought it!  He sold a knife within a hour of finishing it.  Just amazing! Before I even had a chance to hold it!  And it was the blade of the two he cut out that I liked best.  Just an absolutely fabulous knife.

I have a feeling it is going to be an interesting weekend and potentially an interesting spiral path we are to walk.  Is that not a Chinese cures?  May you live in interesting times.  It does make me smile.

 

 

Friday
Aug062010

getting ready for winter

Russell and I have started getting ready for the winter gardening season.  I know it is August and the heat index is above 100 but if we do not get started now the plants will not have a chance.

We have started digging and cleaning out beds.  I have seeds ordered for the winter vegetables we eat:  broccoli, kale, swiss chard, brussels sprouts, spinach, cabbage, and lettuce.  And we have a few things that made it through the summer heat.

Our eggplants are blooming.  I have to admit that I would grow eggplant just for the flowers.  But the eggplant from our garden has never been bitter.  They are so lovely.

 

We have four different types of peppers growing.  They all have flowers and peppers.  I have been receiving peppers from a friend at work whose garden is ahead of mine.  I may have to return the favor soon!  We only have six plants!

I planted winter squashes last spring and they fruited then.  Some of the plants made it through the summer and we have more fruit developing.  

I believe the fruit we have currently is pumpkins but I cannot be sure until they look like those in the picture.  These are part of what the vines produced this spring.

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