Friday, May 22, 2009

Garden update...veggies planted

Lotsa Hosta...
Herbs beginning to grow, veggies garden in rear just completed yesterday. Dean totally built 3/4 of these squares!!!! Thanks Uncle Dean!
Veggie Garden... Beets, carrots, watermelon, arugula, spinach, lettuce, garlic, shallots, zucchini, squash, baby bear sunflowers (bear's pick), chickory (perennial green), raspberries and some ornamentals. And peas... i forgot about the peas.
Jerusalem Artichokes on the left, beginning to emerge (grown from grocery store), and red bud trees and peppermint on right.
More veggies: Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers (early jalepeno, super chili and red, yellow and green bell peppers), pumpkin, and some perennial greens in back (rhubarb, sorrel and horseradish)

The gardens are full, the seeds are watered and mulched, now we water and wait.
I am officially out of garden space, have to find another location for my perennial edible seeds that just came in the mail. (Good King Henry seeds, Scorzonera seeds, Lily white seakale seeds (backorder), French sorrel seeds, Lovage seeds and Flax seeds)

Two great sources I have found for rare seeds and plants:
Bountiful Gardens- http://www.bountifulgardens.org (Willits, CA)
Oikos Tree Crops-http://www.oikostreecrops.com (Kalamazoo, MI)

(I highly recommend getting a free catalog from Bountiful gardens, I am obsessed with it.)

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Morel

Check out this awesome morel mushroom that Dean found in our yard. Minutes later this thing was fried up in butter and garlic and went down the hatches. It was pretty great.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Blast From the Past

Dad and I found an emulator of our old Texas Instruments instrument of awesomeness. I totally have a Texas Instruments computer on our regular computer now. Bear, Dad, and I have been playing Car Wars, Parsec, A-Maze-Ing, Alpiner, TI Invaders, Hunt the Wumpus, and the like. It rules.


A sunny day!


It is a sin to waste a bit of sunshine this time of year.

Morel mushroom find (?)

I found this outside

Wednesday, May 6, 2009