Posts tagged as "Growing Stuff"

Posted by Lauren on 30th August 2010

An Unexpected Bounty

I took our neighbor a couple of tomatoes the other day. I didn’t know she gardened, but I saw a few tomato plants when I went over. They were still very green, so maybe mine ripened faster. She said she gardened in the back as well, and that must be the truth! Her great-grandson brought [...]

Posted by Lauren on 27th August 2010

It’s a big day

Not only because I harvested these on Tuesday: and these today: but because it’s our 5th anniversary! That’s right – 5 years ago today, we began our most incredible journey together. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, but then again it’s hard to believe it’s only been that long. Either way, it’s wonderful. [...]

Posted by Lauren on 20th August 2010

Food update

This one shall contain a non-gardening update. Here are last night’s tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes, although out of focus, are doing great obviously. However, if I could figure out what to do about the crazy splits in my big tomatoes, I would be so happy! We had the same problem last year. I’ve read it’s [...]

Posted by Lauren on 10th August 2010

It’s here! It’s here!

My first regular tomato is here! This is the Azoychka variety. In other food news, last week I went to the u-pick strawberry farm on a whim on my day off. I picked 4 quarts of strawberries and a few raspberries. A couple of friends and I went on the last day of the early [...]

Posted by Lauren on 5th August 2010

Hail!

When I got home yesterday, it looked stormy. That’s nothing new, because it looks stormy often, but it never rains. I didn’t think much about it until it started pouring…and then the hail came! Joel and I had been quite nervous about hailstorms after we first started our garden, knowing that any amount of hail [...]

Posted by Lauren on 2nd August 2010

We have a club

It’s maybe a touch embarrassing since we weren’t out of town, but somehow we missed this baby in our garden: Zucchini is terrible when it’s so huge, but I guess we’ll always miss a couple. On another note, I keep picking the cucumbers smaller and smaller. They have continued to be very seedy, and occasionally [...]

Posted by Lauren on 29th July 2010

Look what I got!

I can hardly believe my eyes, but here’s what I just got from our garden: a zucchini, two eggplants, and, wait for it, two tiny cherry tomatoes!! Our cherry tomato plants are loaded up with green ones, so we’re expecting a bounty. It’s fun to get the first ones.

Posted by Lauren on 27th July 2010

Sunday’s Pickings

Here’s what we got from our garden on Sunday: Two jalapenos, a carrot, two onions, an anaheim pepper, and 2 cucumbers (smaller this time!). The onions were pretty small, but I am still happy with them because I started them from seed (and they are way bigger than last year!). The carrot looked great, but [...]

Posted by Lauren on 19th July 2010

Cukes are in

I’ve never been a fan of cucumbers, but they are on my list of things I decided to learn to like. It may not be possible to learn to like everything you dislike, but I can always try. Since cukes were on my list, we decided to plant one this year. The variety is called [...]

Posted by Lauren on 11th July 2010

First zucchini!

What a victory it is. The first zucchini of the year was wonderful. We’ve now also had the second, and there should be many more to come. You just can’t beat eating the zucchini about 10 minutes after you picked it!