Despite my best intentions, I've neglected our silly blog again. Here's a few pictures to catch you up on the last 4 months!
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| A view of our backyard garden.... Babe, our pet pig likes to hang out back here. Some stupid mildew took over our zucchini, squash, and cucumbers. Michael's been out there spraying with a magical concoction that could double as bubbles.... seems to be doing the trick. Michael hates zucchini. It's not my favorite, but I haven't given up yet. I harvested a ginormous spaghetti squash the other day. I haven't decided what to do with it yet. Any good recipe ideas? |
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| Our chickens still think they rule the neighborhood. |
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| They've been busy thatching our yard for us all summer long! |
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| It's taking some time for our neighbors to get the meaning of our signs... We've made a few trades and a sale or two. If you're in the neighborhood and see our signs, please come barter with us!! Can you see Michael's goofy reflection in the window? |
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| A surprise patch of anise, planted by the wind, sprung up next to our chicken coop. The lovely black licorice smell makes for a nice air freshener. |
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| Potatoes! I harvested our first bunch this week. Yesterday we made a trade with a neighbor: a handful of spuds and some beans for fresh apples and blueberries! We're going to dig out the dehydrator today to make some yummy dried apples! |
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| The fennel took over this year. We have a patch on the other side of this that the wind planted for us last year. This stuff grows like a weed. I think I ate a handful of blueberries this year, not for lack of production though. Our chickens got to them first. Next year, we need to build a big tall fence... |
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Dahlias!!!!! So may dahlias.... we can't keep up. .
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My house looks like a florist's shop.
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Beans, beans, and more beans... and to think I had the thought that we didn't plant enough! We did two trellises for pole beans and two big patches of bush beans. I've been harvesting and freezing these buggers every other day.
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| Here's a pic of some bush beans and pole beans in the backyard. This patch doesn't get quick as much sun as the beans out front, but it's still producing beans like crazy. We planted 3 or 4 different varieties this year. I'd tell you which ones, but I forgot the names. I can tell you we have yellow, purple, and green beans and another green skinnier sort of bean. They all taste pretty yummy. I harvested a pole bean the other day that was at least 10 inches long.... quite possibly the worlds longest bean. |
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Our first harvest of strawberries... When I thinned the beds in the spring, I think I pulled all of our ever-bearing plants because all we got was June berries. Thanks to some berry food, these were the biggest, sweetest berries yet! We have a few bags in the freezer, but not nearly enough to get us through the winter months....
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| We yielded a pretty good harvest of sugar snap peas this year, but they came and went earlier than I had hoped. Next year we need to plant more, I think. |
Michael should really fill you in on the rest. If he blogs like he says he will, then I'll surprise him with something special. So, come on Michael, just blog already!!!!
