Thursday, June 9, 2011
My Pathetic First Tomato Harvest
It's always exciting waiting to pick your first tomatoes of the season and get them in a salad and say those are from the garden.
It is however disappointing when what you pick is next to nothing. I knew the first tomatoes would be the cherry tomatoes and actually these are really not the first. Over the past month there were three that were ripe, but I just picked and ate those.
This big tomato harvest came in at a whopping 4.7 oz. What a score.
Anyway I picked some Correnta Spinach and with a few other things from the fridge made a salad to have with dinner.
By the way these cherry tomatoes tasted great, but anything does after eating store bought.
Labels: Correnta, Harvest, Husky Cherry Red
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Lawn Repair
The lawn in this yard really went to trash at the end of last year because of the two dogs that were here. The result was that there were more weeds than Bermuda grass.
I have been pulling out the weeds in small sections at a time and with water the grass is coming back.
In some of the areas after I pulled out the weeds I covered it with steer manure. Those areas of course responded much better.
The bare areas in the first photo are where I had already pulled out the major weeds before. I still had to go through and get the smaller ones.
My problem is that I can't just take and put the manure from the bag and spread it on the lawn. I need to put on my rubber gloves and break up all of the clumps in there and as I'm rubbing though that I pull out the small rocks that are in there. They have no place in the lawn. To fill a five gallon bucket takes about an hour. After that I take that manure and screen it. The end result is a very lite and fine manure. Really nice if you can say that about manure. The screening takes a long time to fill a five gallon bucket.
That whole process was taking way too much time, so even though it's killing me I decided to at least skip the screening process other wise it would take me about five years to do the back lawn.
Labels: Bermuda
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Cleaning Things Up
This area around the fig tree has needed some cleaning up for a long time. It never gets fertilized on a regular basis and for most of the year there is too much shade here to grow vegetables.The Oregano I had in front of the fig tree was nice to have but I don't like things that spread on the ground because they just seem to create a home for bugs and snails that I don't need. On top of that when the new dog arrived he decided that that area
was a great place to piss and then scratch out the ground after that. So lets just say that maybe that Oregano is not something I really want to cook with. A while back I did cut some with the roots attached and potted that up and I think that I will like the Oregano in a pot better. On the left side is what I consider part of the Patio Garden and there was a small grass strip between that and the Fig. I removed the grass to kind of make it one garden. Where the Oregano was I put in three green bean transplants. On the patio side past where the tomato is I cleaned that up and planted an eggplant and another green bean and some Celantro where the grass was. To finish it off I think I can put down some Bok Choy seed behind the green beans and maybe a few more to the right of the Celantro.Labels: Bok Choy, Celantro, Oregano
Saturday, June 4, 2011
A Little More Corn
I wasn't planning on planting any corn this year but I was given 5 transplants and so I put them in. I didn't think it would be enough to eat or even pollinate right so I was going to go get another six pack in a week or two. And then even though those plants would be younger maybe they could all still pollinate and for me all of the corn would not be ready at one time.There are three tomato plants behind the first row of corn and they were intruding on the corn and there were about 10 volunteer tomato plants that had to be pulled out of there. Those volunteer tomatoes were
cherry tomatoes and I all ready have too many of those.I went all over the place and nobody had corn transplants. I finally found them, but that has now been about a month later, so the pollination idea I don't think will work but hopefully I'll still get some corn.
I should have gotten more corn to fill in the extra room but didn't so I put down some turnip seeds to fill that space.
Labels: Back Circle #1
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