WARNING–All content copyrighted by Lou Murray 2009-2019
Search my site
Blog Stats
- 440,357 hits
Where my visitors live
HARVEST TOTALS 2019 as of July 31
81 lbs FRUIT
37 lbs VEGETABLES
118 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 193 EGGS
GOAL 200 lbs produce plus 300 EGGS
HARVEST TOTAL for 2016
FRUIT
VEGETABLES
TOTAL PRODUCE plus 285 EGGS
GOAL 200 lbs produce plus 350 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2015 as of
FRUIT
VEGETABLES
TOTAL PRODUCE plus 466 EGGS
GOAL 200 lbs produce plus 400 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2014
86 lbs FRUIT
81 lbs VEGETABLES
167 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 530 EGGS
GOAL was 250 lbs produce plus 450 eggs
Harvest Totals 2013
91 lbs FRUIT
74 lbs VEGETABLES
165 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 770 EGGS
GOAL = 350 lbs PRODUCE plus 400 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2012
73 lbs FRUIT
218 lbs VEGETABLES
291 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 320 eggs
GOAL = 350 lbs PRODUCE plus 350 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2011
47 lbs FRUIT
187 lbs VEGETABLES
234 lbs total Produce plus 313 eggs
Harvest Totals for 2010
58 lbs FRUIT
166 lbs VEGETABLES
224 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 463 eggs
USDA Zone 10
Sunset Climate Zone 24 Coastal Southern CaliforniaTop 10 most popular Posts
- Our first two eggs
- How to Make Potato-Squash Pancakes with Lox
- Look What I Built!
- Planting sunchokes and potatoes
- How to make guava jam
- Whole lotta shakin' going on - 7.2 Easter earthquake in Baja California
- Box Car Willie and Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter
- Growing a Garden is Fun!
- Birding at the Salton Sea
Blogs posted on these dates
May 2024 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Blogroll
- Bee Girl at Sky Minded and Ever Growing Garden, hens, and bees in Santa Fe, NM.
- Curbstone Valley Farm A garden, orchard, chicken blog set in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California
- Diary of a Tomato New England veggie garden and recipe blog
- Down on the Allotment “Matron’s” blog about vegetable gardening on an allotment in London, and dog training
- From Seed to Table Michelle gardens ten miles from the Pacific Ocean in the hills of Carmel Valley of California, with vegetables and chickens.
- Garden to Wok Norma Chang’s cooking and gardening blog.
- Graphix Muse Garden Spot An attractive garden blog from Maine
- Greenhorn in the Garden Turling’s new vegetable garden in southern California.
- Grow It, Can It, Cook It Caroline’s northern California blog about growing and preserving produce.
- Henbogle Ali’s beautiful and productive vegetable garden with chickens in Maine.
- High Desert Garden Mac’s vegetable garden in the harsh climate of the high desert
- Liz at Suburban Tomato Liz’s Down Under vegetable garden blog.
- My Little Vegetable Garden Bangchik and Kakdah’s darling vegetable garden blog in Putrajava, Malaysia
- Our Engineered Garden A square foot vegetable garden in Russellville, Alabama
- Our Happy Acres Villager’s southern Indiana garden and macro photography
- Sicilian Sisters Grow Food Stefaneer and Denise write about their northern California gardens with fruit, veggies, bees and hens.
- The Corner Yard Ribbit’s square foot vegetable garden in Georgia.
- The Enchanted Earth Meredith’s vegetable garden in South Carolina.
- The Gardener of Eden Robin is hosting “Using the Harvest” Thursdays
- Urban Veggie Garden Blog Dan’s nifty vegetable and canning blog from Ontario, Canada
Useful Links
- American Livestock Breeds Conservancy A non-profit dedicated to preservation of heritage breeds of livestock
- Blotanical A terrific network of gardening bloggers
- California Native Plant Society
- Corbahead Tools Blog Gardening tips from a terrific Wisconsin garden tool company
- Gardener's Supply Company My favorite online gardening catalog store
- Local Harvest Where to find local farmers who sell direct to the public, farmers markets, CSAs, etc.
- Native Seed Search a source for seeds and other products of the American Southwest
- Orange County, CA Master Gardeners Useful gardening advice for southern California
- Slow Food USA Promoting food that is grown and prepared the old-fashioned way
- Tanaka Farms A farmer’s blog from our local CSA organic farm in Irvine, CA
- WordPress.com The blogging software I use
-
Join 130 other subscribers
Subscribe to Posts via RSS feed
Follow Blog
if(typeof(networkedblogs)=="undefined"){networkedblogs = {};networkedblogs.blogId=1123989;networkedblogs.shortName="lou-murrays-green-world";}- apple pie
- apples
- artichokes
- arugula
- avocados
- backyard chickens
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
- beets
- bell peppers
- Black Australorp
- blackberries
- Black Sex-linked
- bok choy
- butternut squash
- California
- cauliflower
- chard
- chicken coop
- chickens
- citrus
- climate change
- compost
- drought
- eggs
- environment
- flowers
- Fruit
- garden
- Gardener's Supply Company
- gardening in containers
- global warming
- green beans
- green living
- green onions
- Harvest Monday
- heirloom seeds
- hens
- how to
- Huntington Beach
- Huntington Beach Community Garden
- kale
- Kitchen Cupboard Thursday
- Komatsuna
- lemons
- lettuce
- limes
- nectarines
- opossum
- orange
- Orange County Conservation Corps
- oranges
- organic
- peaches
- Photographic Society of Orange County
- photography
- photos
- pond
- pumpkin
- radish
- Rain barrels
- raised beds
- recipe
- seeds
- solar oven
- southern California
- Sun Oven
- tomatoes
- urban chickens
- vegetable garden
- vegetables
- video
- water conservation
- water garden
- winter chill hours
- Yosemite National Park
Lou Murray
Save the planet. Grow a garden.Blog Archives
Category Archives: Uncategorized
How to Make Potato-Squash Pancakes with Lox
Wondering how to use that excess of summer squash? Here is a great idea. Put grated squash into potato pancakes. Here’s how I do it. RECIPE 2 eggs 1/4 C all purpose flour !/2 to 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp … Continue reading
Growing a Garden is Fun!
Every year, I swear that this year’s garden will be my best. Usually that fails to materialize. Rats, squirrels, possums, birds, or the weather usually conspire to thwart my plans. This year, the stars seem to have aligned in my … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged backyard chickens, herb garden, how to, locavore, raised beds, southern California, urban chickens, vegetable garden, vegetables
Leave a comment
Making Scottish Bannock Bread
August 11. 2022 Good grief, has it really been three years since my last blog post? Yep. Pandemic, knee injury, recovery. While I was laid up, I watched a lot of a British TV series about archaeology called Time Team. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
6 Comments
How to cook with pumpkins
1 Nov 2019 Even though it is now November 1, it is still pumpkin season. And by pumpkin, I mean any winter squash. It breaks my heart to see all of those heirloom pumpkins at the grocery store used merely … Continue reading
Harvest Monday August 12, 2019
I have been harvesting all year, at least a little bit, but I have not been playing Harvest Monday. That is where blogging gardeners post photos of their harvests, and usually list the poundage as well. I have found that … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
3 Comments
Summer of 2019 and what a great garden
Every year I hope for a great garden. I tell myself each January that THIS year I’m going to grow my best garden ever. Well, this year’s garden is certainly a contender. I have three 3′ x 6′ raised beds … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
4 Comments
Changes in America’s Food System
Just in the time that I have been alive, there have been major changes in how I obtain my food. Add in the experiences of my parents and grandparents’ generations, and we see profound changes. My mother was born in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Back to blogging? Let’s hope!
I have been neglecting my blog. I finished radiation for breast cancer in early May and have been recovering ever since. My mammogram in August showed that I am still clear of cancer, so all should be smooth sailing from … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
4 Comments
First day of the New Year, and happy gardening to us all in 2018
Sorry for the long absence. No, I’m not quite dead yet. My last post was in March, 2017, when I was trying to get over a number of physical challenges, including constant tiredness. Well, no wonder I was tired and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
4 Comments
My chicken surprised me
First, let me apologize for my absence. I got sick on December 28, a mere cold supposedly, but it laid me low for two months. And being old, I also had visits to my GP, urgent care, the ER, and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged august pride peach, Bearrs lime, Black-seeded Simpson lettuce, California, chickens, deer tongue lettuce, eggs, environment, Florida Prince peach, freezing eggs, Garden Gold peach, hens, huevos rancheros, Katy apricot, Light Sussex, navel oranges, orchard, photos, preserving lime juice, rats, southern California, uban chickens
3 Comments
Lou Murray's Green World 