Front yard mushrooms
Posted in Garden on Dec 13th, 2008
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One of these things is not like the others
Posted in Food and drink, Garden, Miscellaneous on Dec 8th, 2008
Today I made bread from scratch. Yesterday, mushrooms popped up in our front yard. They are still there today. Tonight, Gavin roasted coffee beans. Here are roasted and unroasted beans together on a plate: Each pile has the same number of beans. The beans get bigger when you roast them.
One of Andrea’s orchids.
Ollas are unglazed clay jars with wide bodies and thin necks. They help conserve water in the garden. I learned about them from the Dervaes family here in Pasadena. They sell them in their online store. You bury the ollas in dirt up to their necks. Then you fill them up with water. The water [...]
Baby crookneck squash
Posted in Food and drink, Garden on Jun 29th, 2008
Strawberry in the making
Posted in Food and drink, Garden on Jun 21st, 2008
Blueberries
Posted in Food and drink, Garden on May 27th, 2008
We got a blueberry bush at the farmers’ market. I’m going to try growing them in our yard.
We’re growing potatoes
Posted in Garden on May 22nd, 2008
One of my family members told me that my great aunt used to bury kitchen scraps in her garden between her rows of vegetables, and that her vegetables grew terrifically. I have a compost bin, but it was getting full, so a few months ago, I buried a few kitchen scraps under a tree. I [...]
Flower silhouette
Posted in Garden on Jan 12th, 2008
Water on a rose petal
Posted in Garden on Dec 11th, 2007