My most humble of apologies for not posting more often. It never fails, right around late summer, the garden gets busy, and that is where we have been. The summer garden is out and the fall / winter garden is going in currently. Fun times and we can't wait for the winter harvests. Since this is a pretty hard edged transition and our production is nil, we decided it was a good time to get a scale and start keeping track of our urban farms output. I know, shoulda'ben done sooner.
What's for dinner this fall:
Snow peas, Atitlan, Johnny's seeds
Broccoli, Romanesco, Seed Saver's
Snap Peas, Amish variety, Seed Saver's
Bush Bean, Purple Queen,
Pea, Green Arrow, Seed Saver's
Various Spinaches, lettuces, hybrid and true lines, too numerous to list
Turnip, Hakurei F1, Johnny's
Carrot, Hercules F1, Johnny's
Onion, Rosa Lunga di Firenze
Beet, Touchstone Gold, Johnny's
Surely some others, but our seed box is in serious disarray and I am tired of looking through it.
We also put down numerous starts of cauliflower, broccoli, bok choy, cabbage, brussel sprouts, etc.
The beans will go once we have a frost, but should give us plenty of side dishes until that happens, and then the peas can take over, as they will most likely sulk a bit until we stop hitting the 90's. Turnips and beets are going in single lines until everything stops for a few weeks in January and February. Onion starts will come in January; we plan to purchase several hundred this year. Still need to get some garlic in the ground, just waiting on a few more peppers to produce a bit.
I'm guessing it will be a productive garden this coming winter. In preparation for an impending vehicle sale, we have really been dumping the compost on the garden like it's going out of style. Once the truck is gone we are on our own with no way to just swing on down the road and pick up a yard of compost. Sigh, it's ok, I'm ok, everything will be ok. Wait, what...
To digress a bit, I'm gonna miss my truck, it serves us well and got a lot of use AS A TRUCK, not just a large version of a minivan; I swear, Texas is like that. It hauled compost, helped build our garden, got us to some wicked places in Big Bend, helped me steal countless bags of leaves from my neighboors. But it must go. Goodbye Lurlene, goodbye.
And if anyone is interested in a shiny red '02 Ranger, lemme know. Picture of it in service here.
Anyhow, we are wrapping up the pepper pickling and hot pepper jelly making. The jelly is really effing good, and hot too. It hits you fast and then mellows with the sugar in the jam as well as the cream cheese it's served with; it's a very pleasant taste. With all of the jelly, strawberry preserves, pickled peppers, and dried herbs we have made/harvested, the gift giving season will be tasty, and mostly free, except for the grunt work, but that is what makes these gifts special.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Whoa, it's been a while
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A few questions:
If you don't mind me asking, why dump the Ranger?
Is it manual transmission or auto?
What kind of pepper is that a picture of? Habanero? It looks like its melting, really cool in high key!
Well, we bought the Scion so we could have better mileage and more reliability since the truck is just under 70K and Susie's Saturn just under 100K. That said, we could keep the truck, but two people do not need 3 cars, 5 if you count the two museum pieces back home. So that is why the Ranger is going; we don't need so many vehicles and (as I am sure you are well aware) nobody wants to pay for insurance on a truck that gets used once or twice a month. Tell ya what, you find me a rock bottom deal on liability, and I will keep the truck...ROCK BOTTOM though, no higher. I don't know what sort of low mile policies allstate has, but State Farm was slim pickin's.
It's automatic, with towing gears.
Yes, habanero. And I think it's really cool that you know what high key is. Bravo.
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