Showing posts with label succulents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label succulents. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Garden Love...

This week was full of gardening prep & planning, so I wanted to take pictures to keep track of how things are growing. <3

The eggplant lives in the greenhouse, since it needs a hot environment:

 

Also in the greenhouse are these three tomatoes, including a purple variety(!), & some basil:



On the side of the greenhouse, I have this grafted San Marzano tomato that Coral gave me as a housewarming present, plus a hill of pickling cucumbers.  I also sprinkled some marigolds around, since they're companion plants:

 
Next to the tomato/cuke bed, I'm trying an experimental potato tire tower.  Unfortunately, I just read about the possible hazards of stuff leaching out of old tires, so I'll probably just keep the poisonous potatoes to myself:


In front of the greenhouse, I put two more tomatoes, plus some basil & radishes:


Next, there's the squash section that has two kinds of summer squash, & two kinds of winter squash:



The strawberries are doing really well!  The ones in front were here before, & the ones in the back were ones I brought, plus a ton from Coral's house:



My main vegetable bed has more pickling cukes, beets, sugar snap peas, carrots, kale, rainbow chard, nasturtiums, & Brussels sprouts:

 
Since the rest of the available beds are for my roommates & I still wanted to plant more stuff, I used a couple large containers for salad greens & peppers:

 
Besides all the edible stuff, I made a bunch of succulent planters out of these hole-y rocks from the coast.  My brother & I found them on our various walks:

 
This one is placed on a huge hunk of driftwood that Sean helped me lug home:

 
 Yay, gardening! 

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Cravings, Eggs & Succulents

Last night, I had a majorly wacko craving for toast: one piece with homemade strawberry jam, one with butter & nutritional yeast. It was delicious. For a moment, I was tempted to sandwich them together, but thought better of it. Maybe next time...

I also have all these eggs to use at some point. Some are from Coral, some are from my sister. They both have a bunch of happy chickens that crank out the best eggs in the Universe---the yolks are so bright that they're almost orange! I see a lot of egg salad sandwiches in my future.

Ethan's on the coast, at his parents' house, trying to quit smoking, so I told him that when he gets back I'll make him some crème brûlée. And Coral is letting me borrow her blowtorch for the crunchy sugar topping. I'm excited!


Speaking of Coral, she goes to the Country Fair every year & does henna tattoos for people. She brought me back this zig-zaggy hand-thrown pot that I adore!


Since I'm obsessed with succulents, I planted a variety of little starts in there, hoping they'll go wild & fill it up. Hmmm, I see a dog hair in there too...bonus of living with a big ol' dog!