Wow, everyone's garden looks fabulous! So many beautiful yummies. I hope all of you are doing well! I am supposed to be 'here' at BYC to look for information Hubby asked about, but had to pop in here, of course. 
Melons! Someone had a 5-pounder...congrats. Have always had the vines spin beautifully out of control in the garden, but fruit just once. Ah well. My tomatoes are usually killer and I'll be content with that.
Yes, it took over three weeks to get my (almost decade old) laptop fixed, but it has a brand-new battery and a brand-new fancy solid-state hard drive now! Wooo hooo!
Best of all (for me, anyhow)...our wee flock is doing wonderfully. We're a week behind on the run for personal reasons, but the chicks have had full run of the coop interior for a couple weeks and we do our best to bring Outside in for them. We should be able to let the little tyrannosaurs loose tomorrow afternoon, for a little while, anyhow. All twelve chicks are just fine—oh, and one is definitely a cockerel. One of the Dominiques' combs is *quite* upright and spiky. He was told he needs to be a good-natured boy or things may not go as he'd prefer.
Okay, this is a gardening thread, not a My First Flock thread. Today I gathered several pounds of tomatoes, a handful of green beans (do Dragon Tongues count as green beans? Hmm...), and a bunch of nasturtium leaves. The latter are not only good in salads and tacos, but quickly sauteed in oil, bring a sort of nuttiness to scrambled eggs or omelettes.
Have given up on trying to get cucumbers this year. Well, I think so...I may try a few more; we've got just shy of sixty days left. But they seem unlikely. Ah well.
Also saving seeds when I remember. Have Green Zebra and Paul Robeson seeds fermenting, pulled a bunch of seeds off the tallest sunflower that the varmints didn't take out, and left one of the Dragon Tongues on the plant because it was just a gigantic bean already. (Those are delicious fresh beans, by the way. Sweet flavour.) Have some bolted arugula, buttercrunch, cilantro, and radishes I've chosen to "let go" for the sake of seeds for next year.
Planted some more snow pea seeds earlier in the week—the chipmunks keep stealing them—so this time I put old olive jars over the planting site, which apparently amused the Amazon delivery man to no end this afternoon. I guess if the peas don't come up for a fall crop, at least someone got a good chuckle out of it!
Oh—best, best of all, last week we were finally able to begin eating those garden-fresh tomatoes. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ My goodness, is there any better moment in summer?
Mountain climbing training, I guess. This is from about a week and a half ago...they're bigger now. Five weeks old this coming Monday. They have nearly all their feathers—come that five-week birthday, they may lose the heat plate.
Mmmmm! The bottom tomato is "Paul Robeson". So good! So beautiful! So quickly gone from the plate!
One of my many and much-appreciated garden coworkers.
It's a boy! (Also from a couple of weeks ago.) (Right? The other Dominiques' combs are all sort of warty-looking—future roses, all. Also: Deeper voice on this one.)
*waves* Nice to be back! It's preserving season anyhow, I'm about to be very busy in the kitsch-en. Anyone putting up anything interesting?
Melons! Someone had a 5-pounder...congrats. Have always had the vines spin beautifully out of control in the garden, but fruit just once. Ah well. My tomatoes are usually killer and I'll be content with that.
Yes, it took over three weeks to get my (almost decade old) laptop fixed, but it has a brand-new battery and a brand-new fancy solid-state hard drive now! Wooo hooo!
Best of all (for me, anyhow)...our wee flock is doing wonderfully. We're a week behind on the run for personal reasons, but the chicks have had full run of the coop interior for a couple weeks and we do our best to bring Outside in for them. We should be able to let the little tyrannosaurs loose tomorrow afternoon, for a little while, anyhow. All twelve chicks are just fine—oh, and one is definitely a cockerel. One of the Dominiques' combs is *quite* upright and spiky. He was told he needs to be a good-natured boy or things may not go as he'd prefer.
Okay, this is a gardening thread, not a My First Flock thread. Today I gathered several pounds of tomatoes, a handful of green beans (do Dragon Tongues count as green beans? Hmm...), and a bunch of nasturtium leaves. The latter are not only good in salads and tacos, but quickly sauteed in oil, bring a sort of nuttiness to scrambled eggs or omelettes.
Have given up on trying to get cucumbers this year. Well, I think so...I may try a few more; we've got just shy of sixty days left. But they seem unlikely. Ah well.
Also saving seeds when I remember. Have Green Zebra and Paul Robeson seeds fermenting, pulled a bunch of seeds off the tallest sunflower that the varmints didn't take out, and left one of the Dragon Tongues on the plant because it was just a gigantic bean already. (Those are delicious fresh beans, by the way. Sweet flavour.) Have some bolted arugula, buttercrunch, cilantro, and radishes I've chosen to "let go" for the sake of seeds for next year.
Planted some more snow pea seeds earlier in the week—the chipmunks keep stealing them—so this time I put old olive jars over the planting site, which apparently amused the Amazon delivery man to no end this afternoon.
I guess if the peas don't come up for a fall crop, at least someone got a good chuckle out of it!Oh—best, best of all, last week we were finally able to begin eating those garden-fresh tomatoes. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ My goodness, is there any better moment in summer?
Mountain climbing training, I guess. This is from about a week and a half ago...they're bigger now. Five weeks old this coming Monday. They have nearly all their feathers—come that five-week birthday, they may lose the heat plate.
Mmmmm! The bottom tomato is "Paul Robeson". So good! So beautiful! So quickly gone from the plate!
One of my many and much-appreciated garden coworkers.
It's a boy! (Also from a couple of weeks ago.) (Right? The other Dominiques' combs are all sort of warty-looking—future roses, all. Also: Deeper voice on this one.)
*waves* Nice to be back! It's preserving season anyhow, I'm about to be very busy in the kitsch-en. Anyone putting up anything interesting?
This is my first year growing them & I think I've decided it's easier to see them on a trellis instead of a tower.
Usually they just poke around & it's fun to watch the Toms in the spring but these 2 youngins were out looking for a rumble for sure!
