23 May
Kaphine rescued an errant strawberry plant – our neighbor’s plot last year sent out some volunteers. She’s created a cage for them in an effort to fight off the chipmunks. We won’t get many strawberries from this one plant, but we are hoping to get to eat it what we do get!
In the back are another rescue plant – chives. They’re in bloom and look beautiful.
18 May
I often agonize over what to plant from seed and what to buy as seedlings. Last year’s successes definitely established that we can do green beans, zinnias and sunflowers from seed, though I was confident about those to begin with. The carrots were fairly successful, so we decided to repeat those as well.
So, seeds in the ground on May 18. I hope it’s not too late – especially for the peppers, we’ve selected jalepenos, cubanelles and poblanos.
Carrots and green beans are planted from last year’s seeds. Cross your fingers for successful germination.
We’re trying new varieties of sunflowers and zinnias. I’m really excited about this year’s zinnia variety.Oooh yes!!!
Next stop: seedling sale!
18 May
Yes, that’s Kaphine’s butt. But doesn’t our new gate look elegant? It’s made from the arms of my old futon frame. We’re quite proud of it and we’re excited about our new plot. We moved to a slightly larger, more sunny plot and we also inherited some boxes so we can control the weeds a little better. More photos, as well as updates about what we’ve already put in the ground, are coming soon.
18 May
Not really. We found him in Arkansas, and they let us take him home. And he’s already enjoying the good sounds and smells in our community garden plot.
17 Mar
We had our first meeting with the community garden folks this afternoon. Plans are underway.
We have a promising lead on a birth mother. Those plans could also be on the way, but BBD/BMCM.
25 Sep
It took awhile, but one of our bell peppers finally turned red. Isn’t it beautiful!
And look, our carrots are getting bigger! Little by little. And we ate this one, it was delicious. There’s just nothing like food that’s fresh from your garden. It’s both fresher and more delicious than anything you can buy, and particularly satisfying when it’s something you grew from tiny little seeds many months ago.
20 Sep
This is Kaphine holding our bag of green beans. We collected all of these this past Monday, two days ago. And we left all the little ones on the vine to ripen some more.
We kept about half this bag for ourselves, and took the other half to our garden buddy Ren. We’ve had some delicious stir-fries, but they’re also amazing just raw and by themselves. A great healthy snack. Plus, I have a recipe from my great grandmother for a “vegetarian chopped liver” made with green beans and a few other things…
20 Sep
Our zinnias and our sunflowers continue to be very happy!
But we’ve also gotten some nice peppers we’ve been able to make migas and salsa with. We haven’t seen the bell peppers turn red yet, but we’ve picked a few still green and they were delicious. The cherry bomb hot peppers are HOT. They did not disappoint. I seeded them because Kaphine is, in her words, a Yankee shiksa gringo and doesn’t like things too hot.
18 Sep
This is what our squash plants looked like when we checked in on them last weekend. It’s hard not to get too discouraged, even after things have gone so well for all our other plants. It’s the same thing on the babymaking front: We’ve been THIS close to having a match with a birth mom we really like, and this weekend she tells the agency she needs two weeks, maybe a month, to decide if she’s going to parent instead. So close, yet so far. Yet there will be more vegetables, and eventually even squash, and there will eventually be a baby. But the waiting really sucks.
