Posted in Garden on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I went out to the yard today I was pleased to see that the lemon pear tomato had two blossoms. I’ve got close to twenty buds on that plant so I’m glad to see them start to bloom.
The Sweet 100 has been a bit floppy to I clipped a yellow bungee cord to help [...]
Posted in Garden on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This evening UPS brought us the Link-a-Bord kit I ordered from Kids Gardening Store. (Link-a-Bord is British and while their site shows other kits and colors, I didn’t want to deal with overseas shipping.)
Julia was very excited about assembling it!
I opened the Link-a-bord box in the garage and Julia was eager to help carry the [...]
Posted in Garden on June 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
From http://www.arts4all.com/elca/page3.html:
A safe, environmentally friendly insecticide-fungicide can be made from
5 Tablespoons of any vegetable oil
1 TBS. of baking soda
4 TBS. of liquid dish soap mixed in 1 gallon of water
and sprayed on the plant. Remove noxious weeds to lessen nutrient competition to your crop.
When I made it up I used Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint soap for [...]
Posted in Garden on June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some morning pictures of the garden. Total eye-candy type post.
First… more basil coming up.
Also more peppers.
Then the tomatoes. I moved them to the back patio. I had to replant the Sweet 100 down lower. Got some leafminer issues.
I’m going to add the rest of the cage since one leaf is peeping over.
Had the tree trimmed [...]
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Grains on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I made the “Lemon Corn Waffle with Blueberry Sauce” recipe from Vegan with a Vengenace today for my dinner. I got a new waffle iron and was anxious to try it out.
The waffles were deliciously light and airy although had a tendency to split when I opened the waffle iron. I hear this happens in [...]
Posted in Garden, Self-Watering on June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I planted things in my starter pots and trays.
Bell Pepper
Tomato
Basil
Parsley
Sage
Oregano
Everything but the pepper was from packets of seeds my mom gave me that had been laying around her drawers for yonks so I wasn’t sure how good they’d be. The pepper seeds came from an organic pepper I ate. I had dried the [...]
