Category Archives: Garden
Aaaaargh! Frost!
What happens when you put vegetables into your garden on the twelfth of May? You get a frost on the fourteenth of May, that’s what! I lost just a few plants, not all of them … but seriously?
Busy Sunday
When I laid out the doors and shelves and such for finishing, there wasn’t room to leave the cabinet carcass in the woodshop and still have room to setup for roasting coffee. Coffee wins, so I dragged the carcass sections … Continue reading
Spring is exhausting…
Last weekend, spring cleaning. This weekend, yardwork, all weekend long. The front is all pruned up, and first mowing of the year done. Looks pretty good (but the front fence needs a full redo). Today, I spent as much energy … Continue reading
Fall snuck in the back door
While yesterday was the astronomically first day of Fall, it was warmer than most of the prior week. But that was the peak, and temps are dropping again. I harvested a bunch of pain from the garden today: I’m just … Continue reading
Winding Down Summer
Today I pulled another batch of tomatoes out of the garden. How many? A gallon of salsa, and another lobster pot of red sauce, that’s how many. I also dug up all the rest of the potatoes, about 30# worth. … Continue reading
Potatoes
Did I mention the potatoes? Here I some I dug up, cleaned, and ate (some of ) last night:
From the Garden
Last week, a couple of tomatoes, a few potatoes, and these butternut squash: Yesterday I made first salsa. Five tomatoes, one each habañero, jalapeño, and cerrano pepper, and some cilantro from the garden. A small onion, and half a clove … Continue reading
Tiger lilies blooming
Just wanted to share this with you. There’s ALSO a tomato or two headed through orange on their path from green to red, but that’s a week or so out. The tiger lilies are doing gangbusters this year, even in … Continue reading
Monday: The dog was happy I broke her out of jail (the kennel). Tuesday: Regular work day, then schoolwork – ASP.NET. I am a lucky, lucky guy. Not! Wednesday – Friday: Ditto. Saturday: About 6 hours of work, at the … Continue reading
Did you say Snow Peas?
That’s a second nearly-two-pound harvest of snow peas out of the garden (tastefully blurred in the background) this week! At this rate I’m going to need to find a tasty animal to feed snow peas to, so that I can … Continue reading
