Posted on July 3, 2021July 3, 2021Side yard dirt moving on Friday I’m getting the last bed much smoother and dirt on lawn much more level. Was able to do this on Friday evening as no rain since Thursday. Pasta from scratch topped with a mix of garden and store tomatoes, and garden oregano.
Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021Quarter Gram = 1.76 kg I left this zucchini too long and it was 1.76 kg (about 3.9 pounds). Gram the cat weighs about 14 pounds last we weighed him. Paula’s moss rose has a lovely flower! Briar yawns. Photography of plants is borrrriiiiing. Several inches of rain is settling down dirt over geothermal pipes nicely. Once it’s not slippery mud, I’ll go spread it out more and continue leveling and shaping. You can see seedling ‘Will Rogers’ variety red zinnias on the right, and harder to see are ‘burning embers’ Linnaeus marigold seedlings near the peach tree, for quick orange. Briar looks over green and yellow bed. A triangle of Fordham giant chard with lacinato kale in the middle. The two scraggly plants are coreopsis recovering from being potted up for a month. Around it are dwarf marigold seedlings for more quick yellow. ‘Country gentleman’ sweet corn is flowering. Supervisor exhausted by his earlier brush with the monster zucchini. Book “Bean by Bean: a cookbook” by Crescent Dragonwagon. Lent by the Bean Queen herself, thanks Heather! Lots of interesting bean trivia. More focused on cooking than bean varieties (ie differences among Lima, green, cowpeas, lentils, etc, not varieties within those).
Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021French onion soup First we must get approval of herbs (moss curled parsley) from the sous chef. The cooking begins. French onion soup with a side of chicken. Onions and parsley from the garden.
Posted on June 22, 2021June 23, 2021Assorted day off activities and observations Several strawberry runners took root so I snipped the runners. I set out a tray of dirt to try to capture more strawberry runners. The Chef helped me cut down the yaupon holly that was planted in a bad spot. It kept hitting the garage roof and gutter. Nine of ten water barrels are now in place for use! Dinner… I made it this time. It includes a few of the new tomatoes (as well as a store tomato) and fresh garden basil and oregano. Got mail!! Drying coriander (the cilantro seeds) for later harvest! Tepary beans reaching up! Wild poinsettia (A volunteer). The prairie and its rain barrel. Rudbeckia is looking great. A true bug. Standing cypress about to bloom!
Posted on June 20, 2021June 20, 2021First harvests and little friend 95 g of blackberries!! A dinner’s worth of green beans! From Mbombo (more) and blue lake (fewer and smaller) beans. A lightning bug sitting on the zucchini. A’grappoli d’inverno tomatoes (larger ones) and white currant tomatoes (small yellow ones). I’m delighted the white currants grew true to seed since I collected them last year! The Chef cooked the green beans with bacon and put walking onions chopped on baked potato. A little gray treefrog guards the zucchini from a radish leaf!
Posted on June 6, 2021June 6, 2021Soup for dinner Green onions in the soup and green onions in the cream cheese fried wontons!
Posted on May 24, 2021May 24, 2021Bok choy Wes included the bok choy (and also some oregano) in a tomato-onion-sausage pasta dish tonight.
Posted on May 24, 2021May 24, 2021Rouge d’hiver lettuce Rouge d’hiver lettuce as salad. Walking onions as garnish on lasagna.
Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021Custom cilantro amount The Chef asked for a rosemary amount of cilantro, which is apparently 9 grams. Briar has helpfully captured 1 Gram as a pillow.
Posted on May 10, 2021May 10, 2021Basil and oregano pizza Basil on top of cheese and oregano is hiding below cheese. Salad is the big Boston lettuce that is heading right now. Basil outside hasn’t come up yet so I’m still nursing along the window basil. I’m hoping this harvesting will encourage them to get bushier and more leaves. The red rubin in particular are spindly. The mammolo basil (the green ones) have bigger leaves but not very many.