Sunday, June 28, 2009

happiness is garlic

spent much of the morning weeding and being attacked by various forms of the insect kingdom. now it is raining,which is good for the garden and to stop bugs, so i am pro-this rain.

there were a couple of pea pods! it's very exciting.
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other than that and tons of weeds, not much else is happening yet.

garlic scapes are good, kinda creepy-looking,but, you know. might try making some garlic-scape pesto...

there are so many friggin' ways to use garlic! i love it! garlic-lovers unite!

Monday, June 15, 2009

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks." -Tennessee Williams

got the first 'fruits' of the garden,yesterday. 2,yes 2 radishes. i hate radishes. but they grew! and Jake likes them.
the pumpkins have sprouted!
i'm excited about the dahlia bulbs that someones gave Jake. they are actually doing pretty well! it's an exciting mystery since they can look a thousand different ways,and these are rumored to be red!
raspberry bush transplants also happened.
as well as mom building a small rock wall around the lilies and other random flower-bed, spidzer mom.

Monday, June 1, 2009

rock gardening 2009

planted about 10 pumpkin plant yesterday. one couldn't really imagine the amount of rocks just below the surface! it was crazy-hard.

also found,when loosening the dirt in the last two rows that sunflowers from last years seeds have planted themselves! this is very exciting. now i just need to be careful not to squish them. and i hope that they are the red ones. i saved a million of the regulars, but the red ones were incredibly hard to extract/find the seeds on and i like red...

it's not so windy today,but kinda freezing.

i'll wait for the temperature to go out and finish preparing the final pieces of garden,then i have to decide what to actually plant there...