My first Zucchini!
I also have a ton of early (HA.) crookneck squash getting ready to bolt into growth a ton of lemon cucumbers that are weeks from the table.
I'm totally excited.
But not excited to leave this garden on the verge of greatness, pick up and start all over again. Although I must admit that a perfectly timed photo from Northwest Edible Life (at the right blogroll) of an eggplant growing in a bucket left me super jazzed to get into container veggie gardening.
I am going to spend the winter priming my worm bins - including the tower - to make some ultra great castings and then I'm going to integrate that with planting mix and compost and go crazy with containers this next spring. I have historically grown tomatoes in large pots with great success and in some ways I have found that container gardening is a little easier than in ground planting. Yields are always lower (duh) but it's contained, the soil can be amended easier and it's not so backbreaking.
Do you see me trying to convince myself that it will be fun? Yes. That is what I'm doing. Plus, I do have a inordinate amount of buckets, containers and various accoutrement hanging around the homestead. Why not put them to good use?
My mind is nudging toward my next meat endeavor as well. I'll give you a hint: they are fuzzy, cute and are often spied in heavy rotation right around Easter.
Hee hee hee. The H doesn't know yet. He'll learn to LOVE the little bastards. In my defense the only thing he has put his foot down on [recently] has been goats. If I can quote him directly - "You better not bring a goddam goat in here" while he was passing through the room and I was talking to the GM on the phone about rabbits. Her response was somewhat more momlike in it's delicacy. "Oh. Uh, okay. That sounds...good?"
I love new things.
And speaking of new....
Holy Tomato Tuesday! 10 plants and all look like this. So I should have a windfall...in about a month or so.
Anyways. Back to Craigslist to scan the ads for rabbit hutches.
*yay!*
What! No goats! Start with rabbits and then just work your way up.
ReplyDeleteI just made my first batch of goat milk kefir. Delicious!
I totally admit that after I moved out of my Big City house, I snuck back over one night months later and harvested all the ripe lemons off of the decades-old lemon trees that I'd planted as little saplings. Luckily for me, the new owners hadn't moved into the house yet, so no harm, no foul.
ReplyDeletePlus, for karma's sake, I left them the still ripening ones as a housewarming present.
Hopefully you're around still when the garden is ready, but if not... well, I'm sure there's a way!
I'm just back today from a 9 day road trip, and the second thing I did after I got out of the car (the first was checking on Petunia the cat to make sure she was healthy and happy) was heading back to the squash patch to see what miracles had happened while I was away. The answer: not much! Bleh... I was sure there would be more to ooh and aaah over, because when I left all the plants were flowering up a storm. But there were just a few.
ReplyDeleteAnd your picture of your beautiful tomatoes reminds me I never made it back to the greenhouse to check on my own! Better go do that now...
Hey, you're back! Yea. How was your trip? Wheredyago?
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with moving?
Did I already ask you? Did you tell me or is that none of my beeswax?
Your garden is kicking butt girl. We're so hot here that we've been finished with tomatoes for 6 WEEKS. So effing hot.