Saturday, August 29, 2009
tomatoes!
big tomatoes, huh?
a 25# bag of tomatoes...and i picked the same amount two days prior...
i have canned 3 gallons of marinara, salsa, and plain tomatoes so far.
i have canned 3 gallons of marinara, salsa, and plain tomatoes so far.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
here is pete holding the fixins for gazpacho,
a bunch of broccoli, and a couple cute cucumbers. yummy!
a bunch of broccoli, and a couple cute cucumbers. yummy!
Thursday, August 06, 2009
some close-ups
clockwise from front: two small cucumbers, leafy kale, swiss chard, black kale, swiss chard
a beet
turnip
okra
the beets, turnips, and collard greens; in the middle--celerythe garden at the end of july...
the garden in early-june...
this is the way the garden looked when i left for my bike tour across Europe...you can see collards, kale, chard, turnips, etc., coming up in the circles.....and tiny tomato and pepper plants on the right...
start of the garden 2009
at the behest of a former student, laura, who is my co-gardener this year, we redesigned with circles that sort of form the shape of the mathematics symbol for infinity...i like it. my previous garden design was haphazard and not really thought-out, just slapped together...inside the circles will be all sorts of greens and other vegetables. tomatoes/peppers will still dominate the garden, to the south of the sidewalk...
Saturday, September 01, 2007
the farm....return from China 2007
tomato-loving squirrels!
so, if this weren't so cute, i might get upset.....squirrels gotta get some vitamin C somewhere...
ps. i harvest the tomatoes as soon as they start to show a little red--so they don't drop off and rot on the ground--and leave them in the sun on the back porch...usually, a fail-safe plan. ha ha!
ps. i harvest the tomatoes as soon as they start to show a little red--so they don't drop off and rot on the ground--and leave them in the sun on the back porch...usually, a fail-safe plan. ha ha!
Friday, June 15, 2007
the corn is coming in!
maybe you can see the tiny corn-sprouts. i was able to plant 10 rows, 12" apart...with about 15-17 plants in each row!!
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
garden 2007
just a few shots of the way the garden is shaping up early this summer....
four fruit trees!!!
a friend from college, jimmy, has been staying with me the last few weeks and wanted to do something nice....so, i told him i was thinking about getting some trees, fruit trees. we went to Oakland Nursery tonite and got two peach trees and two apple trees, and came back to plant them. they're already in the ground, and i think in a few weeks i should be able to start making jelly and baking pies. ha ha!
Monday, June 04, 2007
the concrete project
here's three photos.....one taken when i first moved in, of the back "yard"...when there still was a yard. ha ha! anyway, you can see the concrete parking pad that was formerly behind my house. the other photo is a work-in-progress of me tearing out the concrete [with a mattock], and the other is after i have put topsoil down on it. tonite i will amend the soil with some sand and peat, and tomorrow i will plant the corn. yay!
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