Monthly Archives: June 2012

Thar be DRAGONS!

Posted on June 29, 2012 | 10 Comments

A red dragonfly in my garden.

And a blue damselfly on a squash leaf.

Well, I’m learning my camera and computer. I managed to rename my photo file as I uploaded it from camera to computer, managed to find the file and process the photos in iPhoto, and even managed to find the photos from WordPress, but I can’t find the processed photo files. Oh well, more to learn. We’ll just go with what we have because I’m pressed for time today.

Blue damselfly after processing

There. I managed to find my processed files. I’ll probably never be able to duplicate this feat.

It’s Kitchen Cupboard Thursday, and my husband finished off the last of a jar of lemon-ginger marmalade. There is plenty more of that on the shelf though. However, we’re down to our last jar of bread and butter pickles, and I’m wondering if the inch-long cucumbers will be ripe in time to make more pickles before the jar is empty. I planted a LOT of cucumbers this year, so I hope they bear fruit.

I have a lot of yellow squash these days, and the green onions are growing as fast as I pick them.

The squash and green onion went into a really easy side dish. Saute the squash and green onion and some garlic in olive oil until lightly browned, splash on some good vinegar like basaltic, and top with Parmesan cheese. Serve with pasta. This marinara sauce is from our home-canned stores.

These are the ingredients for squash blossom scramble. Pick male squash blossoms (no tiny green squash at the base of the blossom). Wash off the bugs, and there will be bugs! Chop the blossoms including the base, and the green onions. Saute the blossom and green onions until the blossoms are wilted and the onions turn bright green (I use bacon grease in the skillet). Add the eggs and stir quickly until eggs are nearly done. Add some diced cubes of cream cheese, about 2 T and stir in. Heavenly!

This is squash blossom scramble. Serve with toast and whatever fruit is in your garden.

I’ve begun to harvest my blue potatoes.

This is one of the squash that grew on my “mystery pumpkins” that sprouted from the compost pile. It’s just a zuke.

I made lunch with the blue potatoes, a yellow squash, the zucchini, an onion, and some garlic. Sauteed them in bacon grease until done, then added some grated Mexican cheese at the end and let it melt. Still not done, see next photo.

I sliced a ripe avocado onto each plate and squeezed lemon juice on top. It was a strange dish, but filling and delicious. The avocado and lemon were both from my garden.

I’m not going to have any photos to show on harvest Monday. Here is one day’s fruit harvest, with the last August Pride peach and some of the Babcock peaches, the first Santa Rosa plum at the bottom, one strawberry and 7 blueberries. Don’t laugh.

Most of the fruit goes onto cereal for breakfast or ice cream for dessert. The Babcock peaches are translucent with a greenish tint with an unbelievable floral scent that is out of this world.

I am out of time. Gotta run. If you want to see how others are using their harvests, visit Robin at the Gardener of Eden.

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Going Buggy with my Nikon 510 and iPhoto

Posted on June 27, 2012 | 13 Comments

Hubby took me out blacklighting last night. No, not to a rock concert. We went hunting for night insects with a group of photographers. My Nikon Coolpix 510 is my brand new camera, and I’m still learning to use it, so I accepted lots of help from the others there.

They set my camera on manual, and I learned to dial in the shutter speed that I wanted. I still don’t have the hang of shooting on macro with the telephoto extended, but some of the shots came out by chance.

We birded until dark, then switched over to photographing insects.

I still need to learn how to dial down the flash, because it was pretty intense and washed out a lot of the shots. So much to learn. And then there was the downloading of the photos to my new iMac, and processing the photos with iPhoto. ARG. My old brain is swimming. Or drowning, I’m not sure which. I have Aperture, but I’m trying to take this one step at a time and learn iPhoto first.

After the end of the mile of so of cabins and houses along the creek, Silverado Canyon winds up into the wilds of Cleveland National Forest. The one lane road crosses the creek via fords, no bridges. Although the road was paved as far as we went, it turns to gravel farther up and one needs 4WD to make it up to Santiago Peak. At a mile high, it is the highest point in Orange County.

We went up Silverado Canyon in Orange County, CA, in the Cleveland National Forest. Although we live in the midst of 18 million people, there are still some really wild places left in the county. This is one of them.

The buckwheat is in bloom, but southern California turns from green to brown in June. We don’t get any rain from April through November here.

I have to confess that I shoot mostly on Auto. Never again. The guys set my camera on manual and I fumbled around trying to take shots that way. I had no idea what I was doing, but managed to get a few shots in focus among the many that weren’t. I even managed to use my Nikon software to download them and erase the photos from the camera. The “erase” part was new.

Amazingly, I found the pics in iPhoto and processed a few of the best ones after deleting the masses of out-of-focus shots, or the ones with perfectly focused backgrounds from which the moth had fled seconds earlier. And even more incredibly, I was able to find and email a few. Now lets see if I can find them again to post in this blog.

This is the setup for backlighting insects. They are drawn to the white surface on which a backlight shines.

As it gets dark, the insects swarm to the light.

I couldn’t identity a single thing, but I was told that this is a Tussock Moth.

I forgot the names of most of what I was seeing. What the heck was this one?

This is a leatherwing beetle. Check out those antennae! Cool.

Tussock Moth and friend. The little guy is about the size of a pinkie thumbnail.

White on white, a hard shot.

The moths swarmed everywhere. They flew in our faces, and even landed on us.

This is an Elegant Sphinx Moth. Yes, it was indeed elegant.

And here it is again, with a little friend.

No clue what this one is, but it was different.

This was the last one I photographed. Should have taken a few more pics, because neither of the two I took were spot on. I figured that I couldn’t top this green guy, and it was late, so we went back home.

The upshot of this is that I’m hooked on photographing insects at night. What fun! Hubby and I signed up as Forest Service volunteers so we can help them collect data on the unseen and unsung night critters of the forest.

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Struggling with iMac on Harvest Monday

Posted on June 26, 2012 | 29 Comments

Arg, I can’t figure out how to work with photos on my new Mac. I can download them from camera to computer, but still don’t know how to process them. I have iPhoto and Aperture, but can’t find my new pictures in either program. I bought Paintshop Pro, which is what I used on my PC for photo processing, but can’t even seem to download it successfully. Frustrating! So you’re seeing unprocessed photos.

View of our front yard raised vegetable bed. If the only sunshine your yard gets is in the front, grow your vegetables there! That way, everyone can enjoy looking at your garden. Looks like my butternut squash and cucumbers are taking over.

We just got back in town after a week in Portland, OR, so I’m playing catchup in the garden.

The Millionaire eggplant is setting fruit but nothing is ready to harvest yet.

I grow yams, potatoes, and eggplants in containers in the driveway. The pot of blue potatoes is almost ready to harvest.

This is my pumpkin patch. I’m attempting to grow a Rouge Vif d’Tampes and a Queensland Blue pumpkin for each of my three little granddaughters. I’m thinking that six pumpkins in one little bed might be too much. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. So far the plants look healthy.

This is the first butternut squash to have set fruit. The silly thing is growing upside down.

A second butternut blossomed a couple of days ago and seems to have set fruit. I’m growing them on a trellis to save space in my tiny garden.

Green bunching onions do nicely in a ceramic bowl. These are coming along.

A Mortgage Lifter tomato.

A Box Car Willie tomato.

A German Johnson tomato.

Amish paste tomatoes. Or maybe these are the Big Russian Paste tomatoes. Oh, boy, they’re turning ripe! But Mortgage Lifter already won the race for first ripe tomato in my yard. These will be second, beating out Early Girl.

My “mystery pumpkins” that sprouted from the compost pile are making lots of male flowers.

And the “mystery pumpkins” are beginning to make fruit. Sure looks like a zucchini. But it’s shorter and fatter than a zuke, not the typical shape. I let one of them get big, and it’s a really dark green but shaped more like a spaghetti squash without the ridges. I had no seeds from spaghetti squash or zucchini in my compost pile, so it had to be a hybridized seed. Those squash are so promiscuous. I think I’ll try eating this one as a zucchini and see how it tastes, but I let the other one get HUGE, thinking it would turn into a pumpkin or winter squash of some kind. Now I’m thinking that it’s just going to be an old zucchini. I’ll eat it anyway.

The nectarines are still hard as rocks, but they look beautiful.

Hiding way up there in the foliage is my first ripe Santa Rosa plum of the season. The possums left me a measly four plums, and since three aren’t ripe yet, they could still get them.

This is one of three August Pride peaches. They have great flavor, but the skin is tough and fuzzy so they need to be peeled. The skin of the Babcock Improved is thinner and those peaches taste like ambrosia, with a hint of jasmine. Incredible flavor. The Babcocks are small this year and most aren’t ripe yet.

Our three little granddaughters harvested all of this produce, plus a lot of snow peas. Their dad took this photo with his iPhone and sent it to me. I managed to download it and find it on the iMac. Rotating it is beyond me still.

On to the harvest for last week ending June 24, 2012

FRUIT

13 oz Lemons, Eureka

10 oz Peaches, August Pride (last of crop)

6 oz Peaches, Babcock Improved

1 oz Strawberries

Subtotal 1 lb 14 oz FRUIT

VEGETABLES

2 oz Green Beans (Cherokee Trail of Tears)

9 oz Peas, Mammoth Snow

3 lbs Squash, Yellow

Subtotal 3 lbs 11 oz VEGETABLES

TOTAL  5 lbs 9 oz PRODUCE plus 5 eggs

If you had a harvest, visit Daphne’s Dandelions.

 

 

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Harvest Monday June 18, 2012

Posted on June 18, 2012 | 18 Comments

I think the only way I can get a Harvest Monday post done on a Monday is to do it in the wee hours, i.e., by staying up late Sunday night. It is now 2 am west coast time.

I just updated my year total for fruits and vegetables. Check the sidebar to the right. My goal for the year is 350 lbs, or half the amount of produce that an average American couple eats. That will be 100 lbs more than I produced in either of the past two years, so I have my work cut out for me.

This is a record year for fruit harvest. I have already exceeded the pounds of fruit harvested in 2010 and 2011 and it’s only June. I still have avocados, peaches, nectarines, lemons, limes and apples to harvest.

My vegetable harvests are finally kicking into a higher gear after the skimpy harvests of green stuff early in the year. My vegetable total to date is 114 lbs. Not too shabby for such a little yard. I have a Gro-Pot of blue potatoes in our driveway that is nearly ready to harvest, and the tomatoes and squash look like they’re going to give me a crop this year. I may finally be getting the hang of this vegetable garden thing. About time. I’ve been gardening since 1962.

Here are the makings of a nice Italian side dish. Saute sliced squash, onion, and garlic in olive oil until squash is browned. Add a splash of vinegar and top with grated Parmesan cheese.

Here is the squash sauté plus some fettucini with Italian sausage and spaghetti cause canned in 2010. Didn’t get enough tomatoes last year to can any sauce, although a froze a few packages. That’s all gone and I’m down to my last two jars of spaghetti sauce.

The entire harvest of apricots, plus nearly the entire harvest of blueberries and a handful of strawberries, made two servings for our breakfast. Those tree ripened apricots were incredibly sweet, best I’ve ever eaten. The chickens contributed the eggs for our scramble, which has green onions from the garden and grated cheese.

Four lbs of bok choy, some chard, our first ripe tomato, and the first Babcock peach of the season filled my harvest trug.

Look again. The first tomato of the season is snuggled next to a Babcock peach in that photo. Mortgage Lifter won the race.  It deserved its own photo, but I was pressed for time. Not sure who is going to come in second as none of the others are close to ripening.

Today’s harvest of snow and sugar snap peas (10 oz) went into a stir fry along with bok choy, chard, and some slices of leftover steak.

Harvest Monday totals for week ending June 17, 2012

FRUIT

1 lb 13 oz Lemon, Meyer

3 oz Lime

3 oz Peach, Babock

Subtotal 2 lbs 3 oz FRUIT

VEGETABLES

4 lbs 10 oz Bok Choy

17 oz Chard

14 oz Peas, Snow and Snap

3 oz Onion, Green Bunching

14 oz Squash, Yellow Straightneck

4 oz Tomato, Mortgage Lifter

Subtotal 6 lbs Vegetables

TOTAL 8 lbs 3 oz PRODUCE plus 5 eggs

If you had a harvest, or to see what others are harvesting, visit Daphne’s Dandelions.

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Catching up; last week’s Harvest Monday

Posted on June 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

I am so far behind, mostly because I have no clue how to process photos with my new iMac (and I work two part-time jobs, and have a community garden plot that is filled with weeds and rocks, plus all my new raised beds at home = OVERLOAD!!!) . Here is an attempt to catch up with what is going on in my garden.

This may be the same possum as the baby possum that i showed earlier, but we did catch two of them. i photographed the raccoon with my other camera, and pics are still in that camera.

Caught another opossum plus a HUGE pregnant raccoon and relocated them. The night critters will devastate my garden if I don’t keep trapping and moving them. I’m growing my garden for me, not them.

This is the only Snow Queen nectarine that has set fruit. :-(

Discovered why my Snow Queen nectarine tree has LOTS of new branches on the bottom and almost no leafing out on the established and stronger upper branches. I left the tag on too long. The string was polyethylene, not cotton string, and didn’t degrade. The string has cut the bark of the growing tree, nearly girdling it. The bark has grown around the plastic string, so I can’t remove it now. The upper part of the tree is getting almost no nourishment. I may have ruined that tree, which is too bad because it had a great shape. Consequently, we are getting only one Snow Queen nectarine this year.

Our first red tomato, Mortgage Lifter. It isn’t red enough to harvest yet, but it’s close.

Mortgage Lifter has won the race for which tomato is going to ripen first. It beat out Early Girl. Others that are full sized but still green are early Girl, Box Car Willie, Amish Paste, Big Russian Paste, and Black Plum. The others are straggling and struggling.

The first eggplant has set fruit. This one is Millionaire.

Ah, this one is in focus. I can’t see the tiny, tiny thumbnails on my iPhoto library well enough to see which one to choose.

My first butternut female flower, not yet open. This has a long way to go before harvest time.

My pumpkin patch. I planted one each Rouge Vif d’Tampes and Queensland Blue for each of my three little granddaughters who live in San Diego. My two big granddaughters are in college in the Seattle area, so I can’t grow Halloween pumpkins for them. 

A typical strawberry harvest, just enough for a bowl of cereal.

The pumpkin that I thought was going to be a New England Pumpkin looks like it is going to be a Kuri. Not a pumpkin at all, but a winter squash. Don’t know yet if it is a Red Kuri or a Green Kuri. I had seeds of both in my compost pile, from whence it sprang. The other mystery “pumpkin” is producing an oblong squash of some kind. Very interesting shape. This is not a pumpkin that I have grown, but a parent of a hybrid methinks. It remains to be seen how big it will get or what it will turn into. I’m thinking that it is a banana squash or maybe a spaghetti squash. Time will tell (I hope.) I would post photos, but I can’t tell what is what in those itsy bitsy thumbnail photos.

One day’s harvest last week of yellow squash, snow peas, lettuce, half my Dutch Redhead radish crop, and some oregano.

I’ve missed the past two Harvest Mondays, but I have had harvests. Small ones, but with a nice variety of veggies and fruits. I would love to upload my processed photos of said harvests, but I can’t figure out how to upload from Aperture, which is where I process the photo as best as I can. Maybe I have to put the photo back into iPhoto to upload it to WordPress. Arg, is there no end to the frustration of learning a new computer system? I can edit my pics in Aperture, but can’t seem to upload them from there. So these are my unadulterated photos from iPhoto. Bear with me.

A day’s harvest of chard. I only harvest as much as i want to cook that day. Otherwise it just goes bad. Oh look, there is a yellow squash hiding in that photo. Didn’t see it on the thumbnail.

I can’t remember when I last did a Harvest Monday post, but here is what I harvested for the week ending June 10. Don’t laugh, my garden is small.

FRUIT

8 oz Apricots (the entire harvest from my tree)

13 oz Avocado

5 oz Lime

1 oz Strawberries

Subtotal Fruit 27 oz

VEGETABLES

1 oz Basil

8 oz Chard, Rainbow

2 oz Lettuce

3 oz Radish, Dutch Redhead

10 oz Snow Peas, Mammoth

10 oz Squash, Yellow Summer

Subtotal 21 oz Vegetabes

TOTAL 3 lbs PRODUCE plus 4 eggs (two out of three hens aren’t laying)

Visit Daphne’s Dandelions to see what others harvested.

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Glass Gem corn

Posted on June 16, 2012 | 4 Comments

Glass Gem corn, a flint corn used for decoration, popcorn, or cornmeal, and available next year from Native Seed Search.

I am a member of Native Seed Search, and buy some of my seeds from them. They specialize in seeds saved by various Native American tribes of the Southwest and Mexico. Most of these varieties are adapted to dry desert conditions.

Well, I don’t exactly live in the desert as far as temperature goes (far from it), but it sure is dry here. We get no rainfall from April until November. That means all summer long, my garden is watered with what little water is saved in my rain barrels and from the garden hose. That means our local groundwater, plus water that is imported from Northern California (Sacramento River Delta) and the Colorado River.

Part of our groundwater is now replenished with purified sewage water in a program that I think is called Green Acres. (Or is that a TV show? Brain is overwhelmed with new iMac, new Nikon Coolpix P510 camera, and new software for everything.) So seeds that will grow with little water are a benefit out here in sunny southern California.

Anyway, I wanted to tell you about a new corn seed that is being offered by Native Seed Search. As a member, I’m on the priority list to get some next year when it becomes available. Check out this blog post from Native Seed Search for more info.

http://www.nativeseeds.org/index.php/community/blog/entry/story-of-glass-gem-corn

Can you believe how beautiful that corn is? So colorful and translucent. It is a flint corn and as such is no good as corn on the cob. It is for making cornmeal or popcorn, but I suspect it will be used mainly as decorative. Imagine a few cobs of this beauty hanging on your front door in autumn.

This is my first post from my iMac with a photo in it, but it isn’t one of my own. That comes next. It only took me about four tries to get the photo uploaded to my blog. Arg. I think I need a glass of wine before tackling processing and uploading my own photos. Stay tuned….

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Holy cow!

Posted on June 14, 2012 | 4 Comments

Last night, we caught the biggest raccoon Ive ever seen. I’ll update you when I get a photo, but I’m still learning my new iMac and am not up to speed on photos yet. New camera, new computer, new software. Give me a bit. I even missed Harvest Monday.

I did manage to get my column written and filed on my new computer, and sent an invoice to the Orange County Conservation Corps for my work there, so it does the two most important things that I need it to do. Work stuff.

Speaking of which, I’m running behind this morning. We’re graduating 102 Corps Members this morning. They have earned their high school diplomas and are ready to venture forth into the wide world beyond. I dearly love those “kids” and am so proud of them for overcoming obstacles and persisting in getting an education. I’m proud to be a tiny part of their transition from gang member on probation (background of many of them) to functioning member of society. More later.

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Still waiting

Posted on June 8, 2012 | 8 Comments

My new computer still isn’t ready, so I continue to make do with my iPad. It is a spectacular June day in southern California. Birds are singing, a gentle breeze is blowing off the ocean, and all is right with my green world.

I just finished watering the front, and am sitting on my comfy chair on the deck in back, admiring my jungle of a garden back here.

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That was the front yard. With luck, a photo of the back will show up below. Or several photos.

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And that’s what the view from the deck looks like. My tomatoes have turned the back beds into a green tangle of growth. My German Johnson has reached a height of six feet already, but has set only one marble- sized tomato. It’s going to be a race to see which ones will ripen first– Early Girls, Box Car Willie, Mortgage Lifter, Super Marzano, or Black Plum. Neither of the oxheart tomatoes have fruited yet, and Paul Robeson is lagging behind as well. The Amish Paste and Big Russian Paste tomatoes are setting like gangbusters.

June is a happy time in the garden. Flowers galore on the squash, pumpkins, tomatoes and cucumbers, but nothing to pick, so I’m not up to my ears in canning jars. I think I ‘ll have another cup of coffee.

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Waiting for Godot

Posted on June 7, 2012 | 2 Comments

I am without a computer today. :-(

I feel lost with “only” my iPad. I bought a new iMac yesterday, and am making a switch from PC to Apple at long last. I started out my computing life in 1983 with an Apple IIe at home and a PC at work. I think that Apple had 64k of memory. How the world has changed. Can’t believe that I’ve been using computers for nearly 30 years.

I also bought a new camera yesterday, a Nikon Coolpix P510. I love my “old” Coolpix P90, but the P510 has more bells and whistles. I figured if I’m learning a new computer and new photo processing program, I might as well make my misery complete by getting a new camera to boot. I took pics of my garden this morning, but can’t process and upload them until the Apple guys finish transferring data from my PC to the new iMac.

Meanwhile, I’m just killing time. Guess I could go work in the garden. I have one more raised bed to build at home before setting in on my sorely neglected community garden plot, but this bed requires that I use my new power tools to saw a board to size. I constructed the other beds with lumber that was already the right size. I’ve never used a power saw before and have been procrastinating on this job. My husband is sitting right here, and I’m sure that he would be happy to saw a board for me, but I want to do this myself. OK, Tool Girl, give me inspiration. if you can do it, I can do it.

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So until I get my new computer up and running, and figure out how to process photos from my new camera, here is an iPad shot of my Giant Szegedi bell pepper plant, which isn’t producing any peppers yet.

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A Green Harvest Monday, June 4, 2012

Posted on June 5, 2012 | 10 Comments

Cabbage looper caterpillars are devastating my garden!

I’m picking off dozens of these darn things a day, but the cabbage moth caterpillars are winning. I’m about to resort to Bt spray, an organic option. I will spray it ONLY on my vegetables. I look first for caterpillars of native butterflies and move them before spraying.

I don’t want to tell you how many of these things I squashed yesterday, all sizes. This is too much. I thought I had gotten them all, but the centers of my lettuce plants were destroyed when I looked at them this morning. This is war!

I have a few bunches of grapes that seem to have set fruit. I have no idea how long it will take until they are ready to eat, since I haven’t grown grapes before. I am loving this new venture in my garden.

My “compost pumpkins” are about to flower. This female flower bud isn’t open yet, but it is pretty obviously a pumpkin. The odds are good that it is a New England pie pumpkin, as a lot of seeds of that variety went into my compost bin. The Amish pie pumpkin is larger at the top than on the bottom, and isn’t as symmetrical as the New England pie pumpkin.

Some green bunching onions have sprouted. I grow them from seed, and try to have several containers of them growing all the time at different stages of growth. These are babies, my future harvest.

I need to redo my container of ginger, show sprouting here. Bloodflower milkweeds have taken over the pot. I want the milkweeds for the monarch butterflies, so I will need to do some transplanting.

This is bloodflower milkweed in bloom, a lovely plant.

Daphne, look away. This is my row of yams, blue potatoes, and eggplants, all in pots. Not nice plants for people with Solanum allergies.

I am in awe of the transformation that my Garden of Infinite Neglect has undergone. I think I’m going to call it my Garden of Amazing Abundance. That sounds better than Bano del Gatos (Bathroom of the Cats). The nice thing about this view is that you can’t see all of the cabbage looper caterpillars.

Butternut squash and Scarlet Runner beans are growing up this trellis.

Ooh, I like this shot. Pretty marigolds, nearly invisible carrot seedlings, baby radishes, cucumbers about to march up their trellis, and in the background, an abundance of Bok Choy.

Oh boy, my first squash of the season! You wouldn’t think anyone would get excited about a summer squash, but I haven’t been able to grow them for the past three years. The crops failed miserably. The plants in the Garden of Amazing Abundance look like they’re doing really well, so I’m hoping that this won’t be my first and last squash. The yellow crooknecks are lagging behind the straightnecks. I don’t grow zucchini because I like the flavor of the yellow and patty pan squash better. Oh rats, I forgot to plant patty pans this year. I need more room!

Couldn’t resist a flower shot. The white ones are fortnight lilies and the pink ones are Mexican Evening Primrose, or Pink Evening Primrose. I identified them incorrectly in a previous post as Mexican Poppies. My bad.

Wow, look at that harvest of bok choy and kale. I can’t believe I grew all this. We ate the Lacinato kale as Kale Crisps. I’ll post the recipe and a photo on Thursday. I froze the bok choy, over 3 lbs of it. This is Joi Choy hybrid. I usually grow the dwarf bok choy, but I’m loving the productivity of these full sized plants. I just harvest the outer leaves and let the inner ones keep growing. I think I get more harvest that way, and all of the leaves are at the perfect size. None too small and none too big. I’m hoping to stretch this harvest on all month before the heat of July arrives.

See yesterday’s post for more pictures of the harvest, like my oranges. Now on to the week’s harvest in weight.

FRUIT

2 lbs 14 oz Oranges, Navel (last of this year’s harvest)

6 oz Peaches, Florida Prince (last of harvest, possums got the rest)

2 oz strawberries (ate others without weighing them)

Subtotal 3 lbs 6 oz FRUIT

VEGETABLES

5 lbs 4 oz Bok Choy (Joi Choi, Pak Choy)

1 oz Green Onions

0.5 oz Ginger

6 oz Kale, Lacinato

6 oz Kale, Scotch Blue Curled

5 oz Lettuce, Red Oakleaf (or maybe it’s Red Sails, can’t remember)

2 oz Snow Peas (Mammoth Melting Sugar)

Subtotal 6 lbs 8.5 VEGETABLES

TOTAL 9 lbs 14.5 oz PRODUCE plus 3 EGGS

Oh, dear, look at that tiny egg harvest. One chicken is four years old and seems to have stopped laying, one is broody and not laying, and the last one is three years old and carrying the load as best as she can.

To see what others are harvesting, visit Daphne at Daphne’s Dandelions.

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