Wow. I thought this year, I would plant a couple of cantelope and see how it went. So far, the vines have spread out almost 10 feet around the plants. I'm starting to worry!! Does this mean all leaves and no fruit?
I harvested the garlic this week. Five georgeous bulbs of elephant garlic. Giant and beautiful. I planted one whole bulb of garlic, 5 cloves, and was able to harvest all of it. I will definitly plant more this winter. It requires a quite a lot of grow time, but it feels almost miraculous. Plant a clove and reap a bulb!!
The bulbs are curing now on the drying rack in the garage. Wow, any time we open the door to do laundry, the smell of garlic pours into the house. I love it!
I bought the origional elephant garlic from one of my favorite farmers at the Urban Village Farmers Market in Campbell. She was very informative and shared lots of good information. Such as garlic from the grocery store will often be engineered to keep it from growing. What must be done to a seed to keep it from doing the thing that it is created to do?
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Jeeez! It's My Birthday!
I've got a bit of catching up to do!
Seamus has been "blowing his coat" which is really just a fancy way to say hes shedding all over the place. I've picked, plucked, combed quite a collection of beautiful angora wool from him over the last week. He's still got lots left on him ready to come off. I will be working on this for another week at least.
The chickens are freaked out. Something is eating their eggs before I can get them. Which makes them lay somewhere else, which means I have to hunt them down, which means we havn't been getting eggs lately, which makes me want to get a giant trap and set it up to catch whatever is EATING MY EGGS!!
The garden is still steadily producing. I started a whole new bunch of seeds a few weeks ago and they are all starting to go in to the ground. Beans, squash, turnips, radishes, arugula, cantelope. I am also trying my hand at cilantro, parsley, hollyhocks, bee balm, and japanese maple.
Japanese maple?? Hey, these things go for big bucks!! We have a beautiful and healthy maple in the back yard that is producing seeds. I'm trying to start a few and with a little luck, in a couple of years we'll have several small trees that we can sell.
We're also potting some Sago "palm" pups. These are another popular but expensive tree. Wether it works or not, we'll see!!
I've taken some of the back yard over for more veggies. The chickens still have the majority of the room, but I'm now able to grow more of what I wanted this year. So far I've planted some herbs and beans (from last years seeds). Today I put in 2 tomato plants.
I must be one of the few people in the world who can't grow tomatoes. I try every year and every year I get a few puny little tomatoes. They taste spectacular!!! But there just aren't enough of them. Ahhh. Maybe this year will be different.
Tomorrow is my birthday!! I was able to get the day off and we are going to the farmers market in the morning and then breakfast with the in-laws. It also happens to be fathers day so we'll all be able to celebrate the day together.
Seamus has been "blowing his coat" which is really just a fancy way to say hes shedding all over the place. I've picked, plucked, combed quite a collection of beautiful angora wool from him over the last week. He's still got lots left on him ready to come off. I will be working on this for another week at least.
The chickens are freaked out. Something is eating their eggs before I can get them. Which makes them lay somewhere else, which means I have to hunt them down, which means we havn't been getting eggs lately, which makes me want to get a giant trap and set it up to catch whatever is EATING MY EGGS!!
The garden is still steadily producing. I started a whole new bunch of seeds a few weeks ago and they are all starting to go in to the ground. Beans, squash, turnips, radishes, arugula, cantelope. I am also trying my hand at cilantro, parsley, hollyhocks, bee balm, and japanese maple.
Japanese maple?? Hey, these things go for big bucks!! We have a beautiful and healthy maple in the back yard that is producing seeds. I'm trying to start a few and with a little luck, in a couple of years we'll have several small trees that we can sell.
We're also potting some Sago "palm" pups. These are another popular but expensive tree. Wether it works or not, we'll see!!
I've taken some of the back yard over for more veggies. The chickens still have the majority of the room, but I'm now able to grow more of what I wanted this year. So far I've planted some herbs and beans (from last years seeds). Today I put in 2 tomato plants.
I must be one of the few people in the world who can't grow tomatoes. I try every year and every year I get a few puny little tomatoes. They taste spectacular!!! But there just aren't enough of them. Ahhh. Maybe this year will be different.
Tomorrow is my birthday!! I was able to get the day off and we are going to the farmers market in the morning and then breakfast with the in-laws. It also happens to be fathers day so we'll all be able to celebrate the day together.
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