First, happy birthday to snobantiker, finnaharper, and drquuxum. Better late than never ( Read more... )

Last pot of tomato sauce was finished today. The tomato plants have given their all. I heard we had a better crop of tomatoes than many other people.

We also had a good run of grape tomatoes. I will miss those in salads and with the feta cheese.

The bumper crop of green beans allows me to experiment with a new recipe, pork and green beans in a ( Read more... )

We finally finished the garden. One of the reasons I didn't make it to War Practice. I do plan to make sure these two scheduled things don't clash next year.

Here are the two raised beds. I had to stair step the second one due to lack of planning. The crazy things on the right are the garlic we planted last fall. We will be putting stones down in ( Read more... )

Been a somewhat interesting weekend so far. And it's only half over.

Will be very glad for tomorrow to arrive so I can finally see the Avengers.

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Last year Bev & I decided to go the raised garden route. Figured it was going to make things a little easier. She wanted to just get the bed in totally this year. But I figured it was going to cost a little more than we were expecting. And I was right. But it was partly due to not finding the exact size wood I wanted. I wanted to go with the 8 x 8 ( Read more... )

Well after two farmer's market and one farm share I am now sitting in my apartment with nearly two dozen ears of fresh corn and a large bag of tomatoes. And what do you suppose I'm going to do with said corn and tomatoes ( Read more... )

Mandatory update?

Halfway through my vacation and I finally feel like posting something. Probably best in bullet points.

• Took the week off after the Summer Institute. Not sure what kicked my ass so hard this year but it started the day they turned the clocks back in December of 2010. The suddenness of walking out of work and it being pitch dark ( Read more... )

Even though we didn't get nearly as many tomatoes as last year I still have more than I could ever eat. But this year there will only be one batch of sauce made. It's so nice to make the sauce cause I know exactly what's going into it. And I don't have to read the label cause I know there are no onions in the recipe ( Read more... )

This weekend was garden and yard work at Bev's. Yeah, outdoors in the yard on a day that was in the 90s. One of the things we wanted to do was try to get rid of the creeping vines which were intertwining in the hedges. By the time we were done there were some really, really large gaps in the hedges. The vines had total taken over in some parts. We' ( Read more... )

Was away for the weekend. Nice to get out of the apartment. Also nice to be able to step out the backdoor and into a yard (curses the sixth floor apartment ( Read more... )