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Garden Update

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:31:49 -0600

Here is what the Trumbetta squash is supposed to look like. This one grew on the ground so that is why it is round. We chopped it up and sautéed it with onions and a little bit of garlic, salt, and pepper. All of the seeds are in the bottom so the whole long neck is just flesh. Very tasty!

Also, here is this week’s harvest. A few weeks ago, we applied some Garret Juice plus garlic and orange oil - this seems to have reduced our squash bug problem at least a little bit.

In the Garden: Pokeweed

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:57:40 -0600

This monster pokeweed grows wild between the shed and alley way. There seems to be disagreement over whether it is edible or poisonous but we haven’t tried it ourselves.

Pumpkins and Melons and Squashes...

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:06:57 -0600

Pumpkins!

And Melons!

And Squashes!

Oh My!

If not the money, I could use the luck...

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:22:52 -0600

My horoscope for today:

There’s a financial surprise coming. It could go either way. Pay attention.

I found a dime on the floor, does that count? A dime is ten times as lucky as a penny, right?

Fresh Chard! Come and Get It!

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:34:04 -0600

Some silly person, er, I mean appreciated and enthusiastic garden helper, planted chard all over our garden path. The path was full of them (and other stuff) so you couldn’t get through to the stuff in the middle. It was seriously reducing the accessibility of our fresh, ripe tomatoes and nobody gets between me and my tomatoes!

So, anyone want some free chard? Didn’t a certain 12-year old say all he wants for his birthday this week is some “green”s?

Time to download Firefox 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0600

Firefox 3 is being released today. I’ve been using the pre-release versions for a little while now and it is certainly the greatest web browser ever. Probably the best new feature is the smarter location bar, usually referred to as the AwesomeBar. It is not quite as life changing as tabs, but it’s close. Actually it is more like the built-in search box except instead of searching all of the internet, it searches just the pages you have bookmarked or recently visited.

A lot of these new features are thanks to the hard work that has been going on behind the scenes like integrating SQLite (AwesomeBar and Places) and Cairo (full page zoom). It is nice to see all of that paying off (not that I had anything to do with it).

So, go download it today, or read about more of the enhancements.

Garden: First Tomatoes

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:17:16 -0600

There is nothing quite like eating tomatoes in the garden, straight from the vine. I think I’d be happy to have a garden of nothing but tomatoes (and maybe some sugar snap peas). If you have to bring it inside, it is too much trouble.

Garden: Thai Basil

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:51:44 -0600

The Thai Basil has been looking particularly nice lately although we haven’t tried actually eating any yet.

Dilly Beans!

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:48:46 -0600

The most productive plants in our garden so far have been the green beans and the dill so it was pretty clear that Dilly Beans would be in our future. This was our first time doing any kind of canning or pickling but I think it turned out ok.

We had a hard time getting the water back up to the boil after putting in the jars so we are a little worried that the beans will be over-cooked. Most of the beans were tough and over-ripe, though, so maybe it will balance out. Now we just have to wait!

How does your garden grow?

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:57:07 -0600

I got kinda tired of taking the same photo every week and the garden isn’t growing quite as dramatically now. So, instead I will do photos of featured plants or what is being harvested. Here is a final slideshow of the spring garden growing over the last 10 weeks.

Garden Week 8

Sun, 25 May 2008 23:13:48 -0600

Complete Garden Tour

Do you like Amy Sedaris and rabbits using computers?

Sat, 24 May 2008 16:50:26 -0600

I bet you do!

Garden Week 7

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:43:58 -0600

Garden Week 6

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:12:04 -0600

The garden kinda went nuts while we were gone. I can’t believe how much it grew in just over a week! I think our friends took better care of it than we do.

In our absence, there was an attempted coup by the Rogue Pumpkins. This photo was taken after we reduced their ranks a bit - notice the fresh green carnage on the compost pile.

Garden Week 5

Sun, 04 May 2008 11:08:35 -0600

Thanks to the folks caring for the garden while we are away for sending in this photo.