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So our old raccoon is back and, clearly, is no longer deterred by my little green box. He knocked down half my corn stalks last night. There were little nibbles where the ear would have developed. I decided to pull all remaining plants, leaving nothing for the little b-----d to get his fingers on. I've ...
June was a blur. But the garden grows without me, now, so there's little to do there except wait for the harvest. The peas are just finishing, the beans are just starting, the greens are continuing, and the tomatoes are full size and ready to change colour. I have never had such a lush vegetable garden ...
Miscellanous updates for the past week: Fertilized the tomatoes. Replanted (third time) yellow beans; eleven of the original twelve plants had been chewed off by a furry foe. Lost one pepper plant to some critter that left the plant mostly intact, but nibbled on the stem just enough to make it flop over in despair. Planted pumpkins today. I wanted to use ...
The oven works! However, we only lasted week before I started shopping for a portable electric burner. The first one I bought turned out to be a dud; I returned it to the store the following day. It was another week or so before I found a very funky, but sturdy, double burner, and I snatched it up for twice ...
It took all winter to come up with a decent garden plan, but at this point, it's mostly gone to hell. It happens every year, though this year it's comical. The tomatoes are in the general vicinity of where they were planned to be, as are the peppers and summer squash; there are fewer of them, though. The ...
It's been an amazing week for gardening, weather wise. On Monday, I sowed cilantro, green pole beans, yellow bush beans and shelling peas. I also finally transplanted my ailing onions and leeks, and my stellar parsley; they should have been put in the ground ages ago. Wednesday, I sowed more beets and carrots; also chard, corn ...
I cut my first full salad today: tatsoi mustard, red oakleaf, spinach, cos, and a couple of other lettuces that have returned from last fall. I added some dandelion greens, chives, lemon balm and three different kinds of sprouts (not mine), then topped it all off with the usual spiced pumpkin seeds, fruit (figs) and ...
My range blew up today. It could be a sign that we're ready to make the leap to raw; more likely, the appliance heard us talking about the new V*****x I'm getting as a late Mum's Day gift, and it was literally 'shattered'. How long can we go without replacing it? I'm eager to find out. I have ...
I like manual labour. I like to see immediate results of my efforts. Weeding dandelions is a perfect example. I've been pulling them almost daily. It's very satisfying work. I already have a fridge full of leaves, so today's harvest went straight to the compost pile. My first planting of beets did not germinate. Have to replant. Asparagus has ...
I don't want to be a "raw foodie". I want to eat raw food. Why? I want to save time. I want to save energy. I want to gain energy. I want my meals to take longer to eat than to prepare. I want my meals to take longer to eat than to clean up. I want to stop cooking. ...
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