Assorted Nuts » Gardening

Halloween 2009

derick — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:28:27 +0000

Just a quickie post. Tried a new type of jack-o-lantern this year. Looked a lot easier when I was watching the guys on TV do it.

Still, it was fun. I’m happy with the teeth. Maybe I can actually work on the rest of the features next year.

Oh, and I grew the pumpkin in my garden. Pretty much the only thing that did well this year, but that’s what I get for planting everything on June 30.

Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man

derick — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:49:58 +0000

And in this case, they were put there by this man.

Yesterday became Peaches Day at our house. I planted a peach tree in my side yard about five years ago. This year is the first year that I have actually stored any of the fruit. Up until now, I’ve been pretty much able to just eat all of the peaches. But as much as I love fresh peaches, I can’t eat this many.

So we froze somewhere around 15-20 peaches and canned 17 quarts of peaches. I should have weighed them, but I always forget that until it’s too late…

They’re kinda purty.

I should mention that it was a whole-family activity. Even Alaric helped a tiny bit. The girls got into it, though, and did a huge amount of the work, picking, peeling and slicing away like little machines. It was fun.

Nectarines!

derick — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:23:31 +0000

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I’m glad I planted the nectarine tree last year, because they were getting ripe. Well, today we picked all of them so Elenna and I can eat them in the comfort of the kitchen without all that messy walking through the yard to pick one. Okay, that didn’t really stop me much, but Elenna’s picky.

I should have weighed them and taken more pictures, because I know for certain that at least 10 of the fruits didn’t make it to this picture (and at least 5 are already gone since this picture was taken ten minutes ago…). Next year, I’ll actually fertilize the tree, and we’ll see if we can’t get even more!

You can see the last of the green gage plums (I ate most of the rest of those myself) and the first cucumber. We were a bit late getting the garden planted this year… I still only have green tomatoes. I’ll do better next year, promise!