tomatoes are prolific!

Tomatoes: 18 yellow pear, 13 sweet 100's, 3 john baur, 10 green zebra, 11 romas, 5 orange, and 6 black krim. There are a dozen or so other tomato seedlings but the marker is gone...so mystery tomatoes!!


Update: We believe the tomatoes are the SeedSavers Evergreen tomatoes.

freeze warnings

It's been a week of frost and freeze warnings. The beds have been covered and the fruit trees are wrapped. The warm March meant that many plants are ahead of schedule. I'll try to get a picture post up sometime.

Hawk!

A Cooper's hawk has been hanging around the homestead. S/He chased the birds into the bushes and then pursued them. While he flew up onto the fence, they darted out of these bushes into the lilacs. Chickadees outsmarted him.

Sowing seeds in early March

About the time, the daffodils were blooming (early March), we began sowing seeds in our "clearance sale" $20 green houses. It may have been 40F outside, but it was a toasty 75F inside. 

Dr. Terry Wahls - eating for your body

This pretty much sums up my eating habits - I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

3 dishes: greens, cooked veg, fruit

One of the priorities is to be able to grow all the leafy greens I need through four seasons. It's a challenge.

garlic & soil

Our garlic went into the ground in early November. It's sitting in the bed that has the oregano and sage. Beans and peas also grew here last year.

I must say that I am very pleased with the soil. It's been fortified by compost and leaf mulch for years and is really looking fine - rich, dark and friable.

seed saving

Seed saving was new in 2011. We saved a bunch of beans, peas, tomatoes and peppers. Not sure how successful they'll be come spring. Oh, also seed potatoes. The potato crop was not successful although we did get some seed back out. Give it another shot next year. Ordered a bunch of heirloom, "local" seeds from a farm over in NW Indiana. Greens dominate. Goals for 2012 to follow.