What’s growing??
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Lots. Under leaves and in the green house, in the garden and on the vines, the world is green with promise. I’m adding pictures of the peaches that I thought were history. They’re tiny and green but the promise of cobbler is heavy on the vine. My strawberries are still gree too. But there are thousands of them. Another ten days to harvest. My Oregon Sweet Meat is the squash you see. The weather has been perfect for them. Hot and wet and that seems to be the trend. The green house of full of sweet potatoes and it looks like a pretty fair raspberry year. Peas have a load of blossoms. It’s all such good stuff.
Tomorrow is a big day around here. Karen is graduating. It was 15 years ago that we adopted her. She’s beautiful and kind and the bravest kid I know. I’ll post more tomorrow but I wanted to get the photos up.
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June 1, 2012 at 11:31 am
The strawberries are done. The local u-picks have said it would be a short season. We’re on to a great blueberry harvest (if the birds don’t catch on). Snipped the Garlic scapes – gonna make hummus with them, but also saw on epicurious a pesto recipe too. Still have some planting to do. Corn 6in out of the ground, rest growing well, however the apples on the trees are attracting the deer. Must figure out fencing options. Great pictures! Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!
June 1, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Oooooh, thank you for sharing. It’s nice to see other homesteads, it gives me ideas!
Elizabeth
June 1, 2012 at 4:58 pm
While your squash is just started, ours is about to succumb to the squash vine borers. At least we have had a good crop while it lasted whereas last year the borers got it before we had more than a dozen each of zucchinis and yellow squash. Not enough room to grow corn, but we have a good crop of potatoes that my husband dug yesterday. They were planted the last week of January and were beginning to die. We are picking lots of cucumbers, a few peppers, green beans, peas, and pink tomatoes (to beat the backyard birds to them). Gardening in Central Texas has to be done early spring to early summer and then again in the fall.
June 1, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Congrats to Karen and you family!
what great pictures of your property! I didnt’ know you had so much land and garden.
shamba
June 8, 2012 at 4:56 pm
I just love your blog posts. Gardening is one of the most important part of planning for emergencies. I have not read all of your postings, but plan to read more.
One thing regarding starting a fire for warmth or cooking if the power goes out is to have a manual flint spark igniter you can get cheap from any welding supply shop or home improvement store. It lasts for years, is light, and doesn’t take up much room to store in a bag or on the shelf. Some cotton balls, pet hair, or any plant fuzz as tinder can get that fire going quickly and easily when the matches are all gone. Keep it dry or if it gets wet, it will still work again when it dries pretty quickly.