Veggie Walk

 

I love our little garden even though it hasn't done as well as in the past.  We still have lots to learn.  The good part is that I love learning and trying new things.  I love that the yahoos love to go on garden walks with us.  I love sharing. The downside is that I still have flower beds that have been untouched.  One day at a time.  One weed at a time.

Some beauties!  

And there is a story behind the green garden angel that is fuzzy (on purpose) in the background.  A long, long time ago in 2000, I got to help Sarah and some other children with their work at Ayer Elementary with Amy Feldkamp.  Did you get that...in the year 2000!  That angel has flown to WI and back to Milford.  She has literally weathered several storms but still hangs strong.  I love her and Amy.  Great memories!

The line-up for the day.

That crazy-looking thing is our one and only white pumpkin.

squash blooms

yellow longneck squash

 

The second planting in this bed is cauliflower.  We are waiting on the cabbage.

We are covering these with cloth to keep out the cabbage moths.

Once everything is planted we will tuck everything in to make it look like we know what we are doing.

Manders CSA

 

Emmy and the kids went through every garden picking things fresh off the vine for their basket.  I cut some fresh flowers.

It's official!  We have two off the chart...the height chart.  Ernie is 6'9' just a little ahead of Ellis.  I might need to get a longer chart.

Hmmmm

 Mark went on a garden tour without me this morning.  And he found a little man!

Garden Walk With Emmy

 

Lots of delicious Lemon Boys.

Remember those suckers in the tomato vines? The ones in between the main stem and the branch?  I stuck them directly in the dirt and lookie, lookie what happened.  Little red tomatoes!  Farmer Wammy for the win!

The wind blew and down went a tomato plant and all.  Not a limb was hurt and the bamboo didn't break.  The strawberries might have gotten a little mushed but the sun will perk them right back up. With Emmy's help and no ladder standing we were able to get her back upright and secured to the fence.

Another full-to-overflowing basket.

More Yahoo Farmhands

Oliver is on the hunt.

Look how happy she is with her bounty!

I love going to the garden with all the yahoos.  Lots of teachable moments and lots of trying new foods.

The artist at work.  This is a smiling man with hair.  Can you see it?

I think he would come back every day to spend time in the garden with me.  We had some pretty good, deep discussions.  He makes me think.

Murph And Levi In The Garden

 

Murph loves a good pepper, hot or sweet.

Harvesting an eggplant for Bridget.

Levi is telling Murph the story behind the Yahoo Garden.

Please ignore the sad-looking sunflowers.  it was a really hot day!  Murph helps Levi cut the stem of the butternut squash.

That's his proud stance and smile.

The harvest for this day!

Strange Things

 

Do tomatoes have brains?

Here They Come

 I wish all the other veggies were doing as well as the tomatoes.  I had to pull all of our zucchini yesterday.  Out of a million plants, we gone 1 lone zucchini.  Looks like no zucchini bread this year.  I have replanted 6 plants and I am hoping I didn't wait too late.

It Was A Very Good Day

We picked a few tomatoes this morning. And then we really got to work.  And trimmed a few stalks up to give them some breathing room.

Then we unloaded buckets and buckets full of dirt into all the other beds.

All this work was done under the watchful eye of our little fake feathered friend.

I planted six more zucchini plants in the bed that has the mystery plant.

We moved the Dig Pit box back over to its correct spot in the yard for the yahoos.

And I filled it with black walnuts from our neighbor's tree that got blown in our yard by the rain last night.  The yahoos love finding them.  Now they have a place to put them.

Lunch after all of that hard work.

A First For NottaLotta Farm

 A few weeks ago we were invited to Jen's birthday party.  We tried to think of a unique gift to give her.  I think we came up with a pretty great one.  One no one else could give her.

But first, we needed to come up with our logo.  Alaire, the creative one, came up with one that I just love and it will be forever part of the CSA.  We are now an official CSA!

I found two old peach baskets and grabbed the twine from the schoolroom.  Fresh-picked veggies and flowers from the yard.

We even delivered it.  Walter is checking it out through the door.

Hey Ellis, maybe you could make up some business cards for us.

Happy birthday Jen.  We will be filling the baskets as long as the veggies last.