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Garden Update
So here's a few recent pics of our spring crops:
We've eaten about 4 rows of lettuce already. There was lots of that. Also almost gone is the broccoli. But we just planted squash, tomatoes, more radishes, corn, carrots, and a few herbs. |
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Forgot these too:
Our first real crop of Loquats. Last year we got about 1 dozen of them, because this tree's pretty young. It was planted some years ago when the in-laws gifted it to us. this year we got about 350 loquats. I always ate these as a kid, but liked them best before they were real ripe. Always liked a tangy bite to fruits. I did use some of these as spice for some salmon we ate this week. Also, a bumper crop of lemons. I've been juicing them by the hundreds. Then strain the juice and pour it into one of those old ice trays with the long lever on the top. they make the biggest cubes. We been freezing up zip-lock baggies full and sticking them in the bottom of the freezer for summer and beyond. Also, my wife's been making lemonade. Last edited by Ayatollahgondola; 05-23-2012 at 07:40 PM. |
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Check out the size of these Radishes. Big ones!
also, strange coincidence, but this lemon grew on our tree and I found it during the eclipse last weekend. I call it eclipse lemon. And here's pictures of the eclipse shadows refracting on our wall as we saw it just before I picked the lemon: |
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Today I made chefs salad for dinner from the proceeds of our garden. Of course I had to supplement it with storebought stuff like ham, avocados, cheese, and such, but I've been buying our eggs from local backyard egg raisers. I highly recommend you search them out in you area too.
Anyway, today's victims in the plot are three different varieties of lettuce, radishes, and what's left of the broccoli. These little thieves have been chewing the leaves of our radishes right down the ground. Have to chase them out of there daily Also note that we added fresh picked loquats to the salad |
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July update
The garden is in full swing right now. Carrots, corn, squash, garlic and tomatoes all providing weekly food. Also have been using the sweet basil for seasoning
Last edited by Ayatollahgondola; 07-02-2012 at 12:46 PM. |
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Also filled up the new woodshed with free firewood from craigslist ads. My son bought a house close by also, and he's been getting about 1/3 of the wood I've collected |
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Lotta stuff ripening up these days, and the garden has close to peaked it's internal boundaries.
Cherry Tomatoes Zucchini Squash Lots of sweet white corn Strawberries |
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