Now to wait, and hope we don't get any storms with hail....
I'm really glad this is my hobby and not my sole source of food....
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Monday, May 18, 2020
Tomatoes: Moving Toward Planting
Last week, we ate the last of the 2019 tomatoes. Yes, we harvested and froze enough last year that they lasted us until May! This is not bragging, I hpoe; it is rejoicing in the generosity of the soil and the sun. So it's time to start up again this year.
We've had tomatoes under grow lights for quite a while.
Does this look like 140 pounds of tomatoes? Or does it look like an experiment? Hopefully, it is both! My husband and I were arguing about the best way to transplant tomato seedlings into the larger milk containers. I wanted to add crushed eggshells. We also disagreed on how quickly they should be hardened off. I wanted to go more slowly. Naturally, this resulted in a little friendly competition. The results are before you, with my larger, straigher tomatoes on your right. Now we'll see what happens when we plant them... I'm thinking eggshells for everyone next year...
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Grarden Totals 2019
This is absurdly late, but here you go.....
Totals in pounds, rounding up or down to the nearest pound:
Lettuce - we don't track, but we do enjoy!
strawberries - 4
purple beans - 1
potatoes - 6
cherry tomatoes - 2
tomatoes - 140
okra - 11
garlic - 4
Total - 177 pounds, 140 of which were from tomatoes.
2019 was supposed to be a small garden. We were just going to grow the necessities. Then we decided to plant ALL of our tomato seedlings..... We had at least 10 tomato plants. (Honestly, we probably should have had better results.)
Running total:
2014 - 138
2015 - 142
2016 - 140
2017 - 260
2018 - resting the beds, adding to the compost and burying table scraps in the beds
2019 - 177 (mostly tomatoes)
Totals in pounds, rounding up or down to the nearest pound:
Lettuce - we don't track, but we do enjoy!
strawberries - 4
purple beans - 1
potatoes - 6
cherry tomatoes - 2
tomatoes - 140
okra - 11
garlic - 4
Total - 177 pounds, 140 of which were from tomatoes.
2019 was supposed to be a small garden. We were just going to grow the necessities. Then we decided to plant ALL of our tomato seedlings..... We had at least 10 tomato plants. (Honestly, we probably should have had better results.)
Running total:
2014 - 138
2015 - 142
2016 - 140
2017 - 260
2018 - resting the beds, adding to the compost and burying table scraps in the beds
2019 - 177 (mostly tomatoes)
Friday, May 15, 2020
Monday, May 4, 2020
New Kayak
It's an inflatable kayak!
My husband has wanted one for a while, and I thought it would be a nice way for him to get a water fix, since in a perfect world he would live at the beach...
This was the first time we got it out.
Still sewing!
I'm working on headbands, although I think it might be good to make some masks. COVID-19 is peaking in our area.
