Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Hummingbird
Ran out the door this morning on my way to work and almost smacked right into a hummingbird who had been getting a drink from the fountain on the patio.
Apples are delicious!
We got the first taste of our Golden apples and the verdict was unanimous! They are crisp, sweet, and juicy. Too bad we only got three of the this year.
Friday, August 27, 2010
How could a whole year go by.........
Well here it is, August 2010 and I haven't posted once in a whole year!! Shameless, really.
Unfortunately, not to much has changed with my garden.
I planted a variety of tomatoes, heirlooms and hybrids. Same blight happened again this year. Tomato plants went in early, before Mother's Day and grew like crazy, reaching 5ft by early June. Tons of tomatoes on the vines, my favorite hands down was a Roman Candle. It was a gorgeous yellow plum, very firm meaty variety I got from a coworker. He also gave me a variety called Gold Medal which was a yellow and red swirly stripy variety tasty but not as good a producer. Brandywines where wonderful too until the blight hit and dessimated my tomatoe crop. I waited as long as I could then pulled all the tomatoes off the vines and put them in various places to ripen. I left them on vines and cut vines off. The Roman Candle tomatoes grew in bunches like grapes, very cool to see. One good thing, I planted a couple of tomato plants late after clearing out the remnants of the blight, same bed and they are doing really well, lush and green.
In the spring I grew mesculen and arugula lettuces which have grown wild at this point.
Carrots and parsnips are coming along.
Peppers and eggplants going crazy.
We hung a netting for pole beans and they are climbed up the top, no flowering yet.
On the Herb front I planted a couple of new plants in the herb garden
two new strawberry plants which did very well,
Pineapple sage, maritini spruge, eucaliptus, are other additions
The blueberry plant we planted last year came in really nicely this year only no blossoms or berries!! Have to work on that for next year. Maybe has to do with soil condition? There are plenty of other blueberry bushes in neighbors yard that did fine.
Of the two apple trees we planted last year only one produced apples. the Golden Delicious apple tree started out with 5 apples, deer ate 2 so 3 are left.
Honey crisp apple tree did not blossom at all and looks sick. Have sprayed for worms, and will feed this fall.
Chickens are great!! still have 4 healthy girls producing 2-3 eggs a day. Leaving the coop open at night when the temperature was really high. Need to start closing it as it is getting cooler in the evening. Next time I get feed I am going to get some oystershells to add to their diet.
They haven't been out to free range at all, hopefully this weekend we let them out to spread their wings.
Unfortunately, not to much has changed with my garden.
I planted a variety of tomatoes, heirlooms and hybrids. Same blight happened again this year. Tomato plants went in early, before Mother's Day and grew like crazy, reaching 5ft by early June. Tons of tomatoes on the vines, my favorite hands down was a Roman Candle. It was a gorgeous yellow plum, very firm meaty variety I got from a coworker. He also gave me a variety called Gold Medal which was a yellow and red swirly stripy variety tasty but not as good a producer. Brandywines where wonderful too until the blight hit and dessimated my tomatoe crop. I waited as long as I could then pulled all the tomatoes off the vines and put them in various places to ripen. I left them on vines and cut vines off. The Roman Candle tomatoes grew in bunches like grapes, very cool to see. One good thing, I planted a couple of tomato plants late after clearing out the remnants of the blight, same bed and they are doing really well, lush and green.
In the spring I grew mesculen and arugula lettuces which have grown wild at this point.
Carrots and parsnips are coming along.
Peppers and eggplants going crazy.
We hung a netting for pole beans and they are climbed up the top, no flowering yet.
On the Herb front I planted a couple of new plants in the herb garden
two new strawberry plants which did very well,
Pineapple sage, maritini spruge, eucaliptus, are other additions
The blueberry plant we planted last year came in really nicely this year only no blossoms or berries!! Have to work on that for next year. Maybe has to do with soil condition? There are plenty of other blueberry bushes in neighbors yard that did fine.
Of the two apple trees we planted last year only one produced apples. the Golden Delicious apple tree started out with 5 apples, deer ate 2 so 3 are left.
Honey crisp apple tree did not blossom at all and looks sick. Have sprayed for worms, and will feed this fall.
Chickens are great!! still have 4 healthy girls producing 2-3 eggs a day. Leaving the coop open at night when the temperature was really high. Need to start closing it as it is getting cooler in the evening. Next time I get feed I am going to get some oystershells to add to their diet.
They haven't been out to free range at all, hopefully this weekend we let them out to spread their wings.
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