Those are the biggest crabapples I’ve ever seen, if that’s the case. They’re bigger than a golf ball, though still smaller than a baseball. I sampled a windfall this morning, and while it clearly wasn’t ripe, it was starting to develop an apple sweetness, certainly moreso than the windfall I tasted a few weeks ago. […]
Five weeks later …
The aerogarden has new seedpods in it. No, nothing bad happened. In fact … The plants got so big we were having trouble eating them quickly enough. Well, really, that was the dill. We like dill, but not to the point of eating it every day. So after some consideration, I decided to try to […]
Not bad for a week’s worth of growth.
The World’s Smallest Aerogarden has been busy! It’s great to see some true leaves. It’s been about two weeks since I set up the aerogarden. It alerted me that it was in need of more plant food, but I will admit to being a bit skeptical given that there was virtually no water consumption, and […]
I bought the world’s smallest Aerogarden
After a winter of snow, melt, more snow, more melt, more snow, I was about climbing the walls wanting to grow something. Anything. Not a succulent. (I have one. They’re nice, but not especially Good Eats.) I got a Sprout-model Aerogarden. I’ve done hydroponics before, but never inside, so I figured it’d be an inexpensive […]
Welp
I lied. Never got around to those radish tops. Did make some fun things like paleo potstcker meatballs. I did mine with beef instead of pork, and coconut flour instead of tapioca. Worked great. We had them on salads, dressed with my usual potsticker sauce (sesame oil, soy sauce, tobanjiang, and either rice vinegar or […]
Clearing the Drainage Ditch, Part 2
It’s going. I do about three wheelbarrows full of rocks about four times a week. That’s about two feet at a stretch. Definite progress from last time! I’m doing chop-and-drop with the plants that have grown it over, and using them as mulch. That hillside could use a lot of mulch … heck, it […]
[Garden] Drainage Ditch Clearout, Part 1
I spent yesterday acquiring a wheelbarrow with the help of my buddy John. Thanks, John! It’s a good thing I did. Y’see, we have this great backyard, with an enormous slope, and the nice folks who built our property installed a drainage ditch near its base. I wish I could say it was a swale, […]
Just a quick thing …
African blue basil. Gorgeous flowers, bees love it to pieces. It’s fuzzy so you don’t really want to eat it raw unless you shred it finely. It’s “herbier”, for lack of a better word, than regular basil. Maybe a touch more medicinal. Been growing like crazy in my yard. This little bouquet is under a […]
And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did
This is my current garden, such as it is. Kind of a far cry from the old house, but you make do with what you have. And I’m not allowed to get any more plants just now, or I won’t be able to get into/out of the storage closet and the hot water heater closet. […]
Garden Update
Where has the summer gone? I lost it in a whirlwind of conventions and work, which led to me messing up my left shoulder and left hand, and deciding that I really needed to re-evaluate how I was spending my time. One of the things that I’ve decided to do is pitch the standard “work […]