Poor neglected blog, usurped by the promiscuous and seductive facebook...
Garden report: Justin made great croquettes last night with squash, beets, onions, garlic, garbanzo flour, egg. Wish I could say the eggs were from our chickens, but we don't have the chicken area set up yet, alas.
Crookneck
squash, green
beans, spaghetti
squash (some of which we've been harvesting young and eating raw),
beets (pretty much done now, until the ones I just planted are ready), a few very delicious sungold cherry
tomatoes. The rest of the tomato plants (and there are a lot of them!) are laden with
various shapes and sizes of
heirloom tomatoes, all still green, but looking ready to change color at any minute. We ate our first
pears yesterday, and I just ate a wee but ripe
apple!
Cactus pads (
nopales) are always available, and there are a few flowers now, and I'm looking forward to some
tuna (
prickly pears;
beles in Tigrinya).
Roses are blooming, and
coreopsis, and some
mallow and
sweet peas and mexican primrose and
yarrow.
Sunflowers getting close, and some other things which I won't be able to identify until they bloom. Some flowers that were coming up all over the place (in and outside of beds) that I had left because I thought they were
calendulas have finally bloomed, and although they are yellow and pretty enough, they don't look like calendulas unless they're a different variety than I've ever seen.
I radically pruned 4 camellia bushes in front, in hopes that they will grow back with a more open and natural shape (as opposed to rectangles with dense surfaces). We'll see how that works out! Here's a picture of the pruning in process.