In penance for my political digression in the last post, I took extra pictures.
The other day, I filled my gas tank, and it cost me $50. I drive a 4-cyl. Toyota (when I drive anything, which isn’t much). The oil companies are making RECORD profits, and all our government can come up with is to drill off our coastline. Clearly, the problem runs a lot deeper than granting a few telecom exec friends of the president immunity. So, let us tend our garden, shall we?
Can’t keep up with the raspberries. Oughta freeze them, really.
The playground fig tree seems pretty happy. Lots of baby figs for the next crop.
Love purple coneflowers. I grew these from seed. I rule.
The Asian pears are sizing up nicely. I’m going to have to thin some more, I think.
Likewise, I might have to prune off a couple of bunches of the Van Buren grapes.
I have to admit that I have a hard time when I read that I’m supposed to pick off the flowers from my blueberries for the first couple of years. I think I picked some off the first year. This year, there are more berries than leaves on a couple of them.
The eggplants are starting to take off with this hot weather (90 again today).
The garlic’s outside drying. Not real happy about this years yield.
Just thought this dwarf coneflower was pretty.
This rudbeckia is so excellent. It’s like a spent French whore of a flower. Ouais.
This hillbilly potato leaf tomato is likely to be our first, inshallah.
The Penis Squash vine has started its crazed production of phallic fruits. I’m sorry. It looks like a penis. It’s not my fault.
Speaking of squashes! Gold Rush squarsh.
The elderberries are produces billions upon billions of berries, which I find almost entirely useless, but my five year old loves them.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Wendy // Jul 15, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Chickens love elderberries. Or you could make wine.
2 Kelly // Jul 15, 2008 at 10:01 pm
That has got to be the cutest fig tree ever. Looks like you are headed into fecund season in general!
3 Farmgirl_dk // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:24 am
Ooooh, purdy pictures….
With ya on the raspberries. Fortunately, the chickens ADORE the ones that are smooshy and past their prime.
What does one do with Van Buren grapes? Table or wine?
Do your kids eat eggplant? I can’t even get my husband to eat eggplant.
No comment on the squash.
Ok, one comment….
ack. No…. No comment.
4 Rian // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:46 am
Thanks. Ah! Good idea on the raspberries. Those chickens are like our third mode of compost. First, I put the table scraps in their coop for a while. What they don’t eat goes into the worm bin unless that’s full. Everything else (including all our napkins and even fancy hippie diapers) goes into the hot compost. My own personal waste stream!
Van Buren’s are table grapes. I also have Venus and… err… some impulse buy that I forget now. I’ve never had a grape from them.
My kids eat everything. Yeah, I know, it’s weird. I mean, faced with the possibility of… candy or whatever, they’ll pass on real food, but we’re a little crazy with the eating. Wifey’s a maniac in the kitchen. She specializes in Japanese and Indian cooking, and the kids love it.
Yeah, it’s penis-y. Might as well meet that head on.
Heh.
So funny.
5 Kelly // Jul 19, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Since you guys were kind enough to send me Swiss chard seeds last year, I thought I’d pass on this excellent recipe for a chard gratin that we tried last night. It uses up a ton of chard, and is more delicious than you would suspect.
http://www.thewednesdaychef.com/the_wednesday_chef/2008/07/alice-waterss-s.html
We skipped the fussy blanching step at the beginning, and also didn’t use the stems, and it was still excellent.
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