This quilt has all the appearance of a Rail Fence, but it's actually made from Log Cabin blocks.
Quilted with a simple leaf design in a gorgeous turquoise thread. Yum.
THE GARDEN
I have a love/love relationship with my summer garden. I have a love/hate relationship with weeding.
I kind of like weeding in the spring when I've been cooped up in the house all winter. I love the smell of dirt, and the different fragrances from vegetation. By now though, two and a half months in, I am pretty darned sick of weeding, and my elbow is killing me. Why do they call it Tennis Elbow when in my case it clearly has nothing to do with a lah-di-dah leisure activity?
That will explain my dependence on what I like to call Redneck Mulch. It's just several layers of newspaper, topped with grass clippings. A few weeds are pretty determined and will poke out through the joins, where they might actually get a bit of light. But they pull out sooo easily. AND they are very sparse. Where I do still need to pay some attention is right around the stem of whatever veggie is growing, since there is a substantially larger opening there. The weeds take advantage of that. (Ignore the Timmies cups. Those were the 'pots' I used for the tomato seedlings, and the variety is written on the side of the cup.)
Tomatoes: This year I planted 8 Romas, 4 PF Hybrid, 4 Big Beef, and 3 Sweet 100. I will pick my first Sw. 100 in a few days, I think - one is partly red.
Every year, some of the potatoes that we missed when we were digging in the fall manage to overwinter and sprout. I transplanted the first 5 volunteers into the proper potato patch (say that three times, fast. 😀) but the rest I've just left to grow where they sprouted. There's at least 10 plants now.
Today I noticed there are peppers on the pepper plants. Yay! The beans didn't amount to a hill of beans (groan) so I had to replant them. It'll be another month at least before I get any beans. The stuff with white flowers that you're seeing in most of these pics is Cilantro. Another volunteer which is just as invasive as dill. Although I love cilantro, so it's ok. I leave some to go to seed, then whiz the seeds in the (clean) coffee grinder for Coriander spice.
We planted three different varieties of potatoes - an early, a mid season, and a late. So far DH has dug enough from the 'earlies' for boiled potatoes with butter (OMG, sooo good), AND a potato salad.
The asparagus is resting now until next spring, just building energy so it can feed me again. In the photo it looks kind of white - that's from our well water. Disgusting stuff, but there's been no rain to speak of for quite some time. The county has a burn ban posted, and the Grand River Watershed has requested a 10% reduction in water use.
And now, what you've all been waiting for...
THE ZUCCHINI REPORT
Picked this week: 16
Picked YTD: 16
Gave away: 10
DH was horrified the day I showed him my basket with SEVEN zucchinis. He must have a horseshoe up his butt though - a customer that day was happy to take all seven off my hands.
In other humourous Zucchini News, the newsletter editor for one of my guilds asked me if I had any zucchini recipes I could share for the newsletter. Hahahahahaha.... I have a million recipes.
And in MORE humourous Zucchini News, my nephew (the foodie) posted on his Instagram page a clip of him making stuffed zucchini blossoms. I had to resort to that a few years ago when I had so much zucchini I thought DH was going to leave home. And in today's newspaper there is a recipe featuring stuffed zucchini blossoms. I guess that's going to the the summer's hot food item.
Quilted with a simple leaf design in a gorgeous turquoise thread. Yum.
THE GARDEN
I have a love/love relationship with my summer garden. I have a love/hate relationship with weeding.
I kind of like weeding in the spring when I've been cooped up in the house all winter. I love the smell of dirt, and the different fragrances from vegetation. By now though, two and a half months in, I am pretty darned sick of weeding, and my elbow is killing me. Why do they call it Tennis Elbow when in my case it clearly has nothing to do with a lah-di-dah leisure activity?
That will explain my dependence on what I like to call Redneck Mulch. It's just several layers of newspaper, topped with grass clippings. A few weeds are pretty determined and will poke out through the joins, where they might actually get a bit of light. But they pull out sooo easily. AND they are very sparse. Where I do still need to pay some attention is right around the stem of whatever veggie is growing, since there is a substantially larger opening there. The weeds take advantage of that. (Ignore the Timmies cups. Those were the 'pots' I used for the tomato seedlings, and the variety is written on the side of the cup.)
Tomatoes: This year I planted 8 Romas, 4 PF Hybrid, 4 Big Beef, and 3 Sweet 100. I will pick my first Sw. 100 in a few days, I think - one is partly red.
Every year, some of the potatoes that we missed when we were digging in the fall manage to overwinter and sprout. I transplanted the first 5 volunteers into the proper potato patch (say that three times, fast. 😀) but the rest I've just left to grow where they sprouted. There's at least 10 plants now.
Today I noticed there are peppers on the pepper plants. Yay! The beans didn't amount to a hill of beans (groan) so I had to replant them. It'll be another month at least before I get any beans. The stuff with white flowers that you're seeing in most of these pics is Cilantro. Another volunteer which is just as invasive as dill. Although I love cilantro, so it's ok. I leave some to go to seed, then whiz the seeds in the (clean) coffee grinder for Coriander spice.
We planted three different varieties of potatoes - an early, a mid season, and a late. So far DH has dug enough from the 'earlies' for boiled potatoes with butter (OMG, sooo good), AND a potato salad.
The asparagus is resting now until next spring, just building energy so it can feed me again. In the photo it looks kind of white - that's from our well water. Disgusting stuff, but there's been no rain to speak of for quite some time. The county has a burn ban posted, and the Grand River Watershed has requested a 10% reduction in water use.
And now, what you've all been waiting for...
THE ZUCCHINI REPORT
Picked this week: 16
Picked YTD: 16
Gave away: 10
DH was horrified the day I showed him my basket with SEVEN zucchinis. He must have a horseshoe up his butt though - a customer that day was happy to take all seven off my hands.
In other humourous Zucchini News, the newsletter editor for one of my guilds asked me if I had any zucchini recipes I could share for the newsletter. Hahahahahaha.... I have a million recipes.
And in MORE humourous Zucchini News, my nephew (the foodie) posted on his Instagram page a clip of him making stuffed zucchini blossoms. I had to resort to that a few years ago when I had so much zucchini I thought DH was going to leave home. And in today's newspaper there is a recipe featuring stuffed zucchini blossoms. I guess that's going to the the summer's hot food item.
Love the zucchini report - and your husband's reaction! Made me laugh anyway. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteDH is in luck with u on trend...this weeks fortino's ad has blossoms $4.99 for 20g....plus recipe....Marie
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