Garden ⁽¹⁰⁵⁾

Brian Bilbrey September 29, 2013

Fall Yard Work

Yesterday I worked in the front yard, cleaning out some stuff from the beds, giving all the shrubs a haircut, and mowing the grass. I found this bird's nest while I pruned the forsythia, and want to know if there's a recipe. This isn't, I think, the right type for bird's nest soup. To give you a sense of scale, this would comfortably hold but one golf ball... Today, I worked in the back yard. I pulled out about 10 pounds of potatoes, a couple of shopping bags full of peppers ... and that's about all she wrote for this…

Brian Bilbrey July 30, 2013

Garden bonanza

Garden bonanza! Serrano and habañero peppers, lots of several different types of tomato, a few cucumbers, and a bunch of potatoes - all this came out of the garden this evening. Some of that stack became first salsa of the season: Tomatoes, peppers, and cilantro from the garden, yellow onion and a bit of garlic from the store: Yum! Oh, yeah ... the salsa became dinner. I'm likely to regret that, but it was super delicious.

Brian Bilbrey July 21, 2013

It ain't a Dry Heat.

It's been, finally, much like a DC summer for the last couple of weeks. The rain stopped coming, except for pop-up thunderstorms that miss us, north or south. Heat and humidity are the order of the day, every day. We were supposed to have a front through last night, and cooler temps behind, but there was no rain for us, and it was 90+ by nine in the morning. However, finally, some significant amounts of tomatoes are coming out of the garden (though mostly still cherry, but you won't hear me complain, they're yummy): A couple of other tomatoes, some…

Brian Bilbrey July 14, 2013

Summer Doldrums

The heat and humidity have properly settled in, here in the formerly malarial DC Metro area. I'm trying not to let it slow me down. I took a few hours off work on Friday, and spent most of them working in the wood shop. I final-sanded all of the carcasses, drawer boxes, and fronts. Then I hauled all of those out into the "junk" area just outside my woodshop, so that I could clean the shop up. I always build for a while, then clean massively before starting to apply finishes. It's a bit of a pain, but it keeps…

Brian Bilbrey June 27, 2013

Sad Zucchini

Sad Zucchini Yesterday that plant was FINE! Today, not so much, and I can't tell why. Sigh. And it's too wet (rain every day, nearly) which makes the tomatoes unhappy.