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06 Jun 2009Bacon and Balsamic Glazed Sugar Snap Peas 1 A-Row Sugar Star Peas HarvestingOkay, actually “Sugar Snap” is a variety and mine are “Sugar Star,” but they still tasted really, really good in this recipe tonight. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Bacon-and-Balsamic-Glazed-Sugar-Snap-Peas/Detail.aspxSunny 31°C / 88°F
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05 Jun 2009All gone Scallions Harvesting, Mom's Basket garden , Perpetual Spinach 'Bright Lights' Dying, and Radishes HarvestingMom harvested the last of the scallions and radishes, so I brought that basket home. The Swiss chard would have been ready to go over there, except someone ate everything in the basket while it sat on my porch. I suspect a squirrel, since they make themselves at home here. Grr.Sunny 26°C / 78°F
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05 Jun 2009Blossoms?! 2 1 A3/4 Marketer Cucumber Flowering and N Square Foot gardenAll four cukes were kinda stressed after planting out; they recovered (though one Lemon was subsequently dug up by a squirrel looking for his nut stash and had to be replaced), but haven’t really grown much. They have two big leaves and that’s been it… haven’t even reached...Sunny 26°C / 78°F
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13 May 2009Flowers! 2 1 A-Row Sugar Star Peas FloweringI have at least one flower on my peas. Yay! This is much more progress than last year, where the cabbages sprang up and finished the shading-out that the tree had begun. I should get pictures… they’re very interesting, growing in the artistically-rusting mattress springs.Cloudy 32°C / 89°F
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02 May 2009In the ground A3/4 Marketer Cucumber Planting Out, Seed Flat garden , and N Square Foot gardenCue the hailstorms. Actually only two of the six are in the ground; the other four will go in others’ gardens.17°C / 62°F
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12 Apr 2009First harvest of the year 2 1 D4 Scallions Harvesting and NW Square Foot gardenI pulled up three of these green onions today to put in a quiche. Should have pulled four, since the outer layers were a bit mushy (these poor things have been through a near-blizzard and all sorts of crazy unseasonable weather) and they turned out a bit small after stripping that, but since it w...7°C / 44°F
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09 Apr 2009Eleven tiny, tiny little plants 1 Petunias Sprouting and Seed Flat gardenThese are the tiniest, cutest little plants EVER. I keep looking at them and thinking “There is no way anything this tiny can survive me.” Also, being that they’re Waves, “How does something that tiny turn into such a monster petunia plant?” The twelfth seed seems to...Cloudy 22°C / 72°F
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07 Apr 2009Cuckoo's eggs Jet Star Tomato Showing True Leaves, Seed Flat garden , and Roma Tomato DyingAs I mentioned awhile back, I was suspicious of the number (and placement) of sprouts I was getting. I’d planted in peat moss, vermiculite, AND compost rather than the seed-starting peat/verm-only mix, and when a dense clump of sprouts (as in perhaps a hundred!) turned up in the rest of the...Sunny 3°C / 38°F
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28 Mar 2009I'll never complain again 1 D1 Garlic and NW Square Foot garden0°C / 32°F
I’ve been complaining that there wasn’t enough cold left in this (very warm, dry) winter to cause the garlic to do its thing.
See that picture? Ten days before our last frost date, folks. Thirty-six hours of sleet and snow. Whee!
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27 Mar 2009"If we have frost I'll just mulch them" 2 D4 Scallions Sprouting, NW Square Foot garden , D1 Garlic Sprouting, Yukon Gold Potato , Back Foundation Ti...Well, I mulched the onions and everything else today, but we’re getting a little more than frost… we’re getting a blizzard. So far we’re on the fringes of it, and it’s “only” rained ice for a few hours. Eventually we’ll get snow, perhaps a foot. The...-2°C / 29°F
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