More edible plantings at Dland!

Great edible plantings at Disneyland!


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Leftovers

Leftover chicken from Healthy Family Farms on lettuce from our garden. Farmer's market tomatoes and peppers too. Yum.

Hang on to the vine...

Hang on little tomato! Baby tomatoes have appeared on my Stupice tomato plant ("Stupice," not "stupid." Har de har).





It's an exciting day. And judging by the number of flowers on the plant, we're in for a fruitful summer.

Most seeds have sprouted. The plants in my full-sun, half wine barrel are truly flourishing. Used the basil in pasta this week, and I had my first salad from my mixed salad greens. Yummy!











In other responsible eating news, we're very excited to become a Venice pick up location for the CSA members of Healthy Family Farms. They're a local farm that we like to get our eggs and meat from. Pasture raised, humanely treated, and lovely people who work there.





We made a beer can chicken recently, using one of their birds. Chicken that tastes like chicken!





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Welcome squash babies!

I could see the sprouts from the window. They must have pushed through last night. All the rain we've been getting is a big help.

How exciting: here come zucchini and yellow squash!



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Holy green beans, Plantman!

One week of growing, my green beans are twice as tall.

Before:


After:



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New garden bliss!

Happy Mother's Day to all you mommas out there! I paid tribute to Mother Nature by finally giving my veggie patch the attention it's been needing.


Stopped by the local nursery and picked up a half wine barrel, Growers Gold dirt, and a couple of seedlings.

Home soon after and the project began in earnest!

Here's the half barrel under a shower we have but have never used in our backyard.


I think it's a little kitchy, but fun to put it there. The barrel is big enough that I could bathe in it if need be... But I'd rather plant stuff!




After planting tomatoes (Boxcar Willie and Stupice), green beans, basil and zucchini (seeds) in the wine barrel, I moved on to the more daunting task...

...of cleaning out the overgrown mess that used to be my garden. It took a while, but at the end of the process, here's what I planted:

Spinach
Lettuce
Jubilee watermelon
Sweet bell peppers
Cantaloupe (heart of gold)
Cucumber (straight 8)
Sweet corn
Moon & Stars watermelon
Black beauty eggplant
Broccoli



Can't wait for the first sprouts! And I think I'll have an even better growing season with my sun loving veggies in the half barrel in the sunniest part of our backyard and the other veg enjoying more space and water. Time will tell!

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Edible gardens at Disneyland

A beautiful example of edible landscaping is in the gardens of Tommorowland at Disneyland.

Check out the chard, bok choy, lettuces and herbs!




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Cool way to view my blog

Hey There! This is a beautiful way to view my blog (or any blogspot blog for that matter). Add /view/mosaic to the end of my url (http://greenthumbtroop.blogspot.com/view/mosaic) and you can see an artistic look back at my years of gardening! Enjoy!

Happy Spring--Strawberries and Kale

Sorry for the long hiatus away from my gardening blog--I kept thinking, "get those pictures online and then write a blog post," but today I decided to just go ahead and write a little note without any pictures.

I went into the yard this afternoon to see a bunch of beautiful red strawberries growing in my strawberry pot! I thought I would surely have to plant new strawberry plants to get a crop this year, but instead it's looking like I can just trim back some of the dead leaves and let it be. I ate one--delicious.

Also, we're having a Kale and Mustard Greens explosion. I will need to make a big pot of melted greens soon and make way for some new plants.

This year I'm also going to get a half barrel to plant some of the kinds of veg that I've been struggling to get growing because my garden is in part shade. I'm going to plan a tomato, cuke, zucchini and a green bean plant, and put it all in the sunniest place I can find on our property.

More on that and other adventures very soon, I promise!

Just a few pictures

A lengthier blog post will soon follow. In the meantime, pictures of delicious onions, and a pretty tomato and cucumber pairing.





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