We’re now getting a handful of cherry tomatoes every day. But the really exciting news is that the canning tomatoes are starting to ripen! They’re just beginning to turn yellow. These are Heinz 2653, specially bred for canning. I have frozen tomatoes before, but have never canned them, so I’m looking forward to it. Post [...]
So far, all of my pictures and most of my updates have featured the vegetable bed in the front yard. It’s pretty well established now, and I don’t have to do much with it right now besides water and weed. The tomatoes aren’t ripe yet, and the beans haven’t started beaning. I’ve been picking about [...]
Nothing very eventful today. I made another bike trip to the grocery store this evening. I left after 7:30 p.m., and it was actually dusky enough on the way back that I turned my lights on. The garden is finally bursting forth! The tomatoes are fruiting and outgrowing their cages. The zucchini are finally getting [...]
Well, it is Sunday, after all! We simply didn’t go anywhere today. We decided that Trek in the Park was likely to be miserable on a hot day, during the hottest part of the day. And we didn’t need to go anywhere else. I did, however, get up early and work in the garden, so [...]
Yes, we’re in the midst of a 90-degrees-plus (Fahrenheit) heat wave, and I’m blogging about winter. No, it doesn’t keep me particularly cool. In fact, my first reaction to seeing Cooking Up a Story’s video on starting a winter garden is to resist, run, hide my head under a pillow. I have enough work to [...]
The sun and heat have finally arrived in Oregon! We had a very cool, wet spring (almost a non-spring), which did affect gardens. But now the tomato plants are doing well, although there’s still no fruit. And we should be eating zucchini within a day or two. The carrots and green onions are finally getting [...]
It’s been a cold, rainy May, so gardening has been difficult, but we’re finally eating lettuce from the garden! Other plants are doing the things they are supposed to do, and we’ve planted a few more seeds and a tomato plant. So here are the peas. I planted them AGES ago, at the end of [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2010 in Life, Sustainability
We’re just beginning spring break in Portland, Oregon. I know not everyone has spring break this week, and I know that not everyone gets a spring break! But my husband and I are both school employees, so we have a spring break. Here’s what we plan to do. Maybe you can fit one of them [...]
