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Garden:
This is what is takes for those tomatoes to ripen, nice warm summer days. Got a ripe tomato for the 4th of July. That's always the goal around here. This is an early heirloom , Stupice, that I saved the seeds from last year.
Eating it right in the garden, I just wish I had brought my salt shaker. Theres just something good about eating a nice warm juicy tomato picked right off the vine that makes all the garden labors well worth it. And so does a toast and mater sandwich too, ok add some bacon and lettuce, oh thats goooooood. And its makin me hungry.
I can't wait tell these big boys ripe'in up. I do have tomatoes growing called Big Boys. But these are an heirloom , Mortgage Lifters. Story has it a man paid off his mortgage by selling this type of tomato. Wouldn't that be cool in todays world. I'm thinkin payin for gas with maters : ).
Heres another group of heirlooms, Grapes. these are so cute and I know the Gkiddies will be eating them like candy.
Peas, greenbeans, cukes and squash, and other goodies get closer to being harvest as each day is warmed by the sun. So far have not had to water.
Grapes are plumping up and peaches this year, no heavy freeze this early spring to take them out like last years crop.
In the Woods:
Its Blackberry pickin time , get em before the critters do. Oh theres always plenty for man and beast. You know wild blackberry pickin in the woods is really not that easy. Especially in the thick bushes. Theres thorns to contend with, poison ivy at bay and then theres this critter overhead in the wild grape vines.
Oh hes a vibrant green and he didn't make a move for his photo shoot. Nor did I for that matter, other then moving my camera trigger finger.
Flowers:
The weather has been perfect for the flowers as well. Many new ones for me this season, with the seeds given from Daves Garden members, co-ops and just plain going crazy buying seeds. The homestead is changing with color , more butterflies, hummmingbirds and all the other critters that like flowers too.
Many seeds were winter sowed , making many plants that will have maga seeds to save and share with others. I have already started collecting seeds from spent flowers.
This was from a DG member that I wintered sowed. A Morning Glory called Star Of Yelta. It looks like the center glows, It is so pretty.
Heres a tall Phlox called David. I got this from one of my co-ops groups. Oh It smells good.
Rose of Sharon, I have to transplant a few of these from sapplings I seen today while cleaning up around the old flower wagon. A client gave me a start of these many years ago. They are really kicking in with the blooms.
These Daylilies have been established on the homestead and plans for getting some rare heirlooms this fall is happening on another co-op.
We use some in our salads, makes it colorful : )
Heres a couple more
This little one is called Rain Lily,so pretty. A friend gave me a couple to try out, she was new to them to.
I love all these new flowers that are coming up, something new to look at everytime I go for a garden stroll.
Knitting:
I havn't knitted for some time. I might be what you call a fair weather knitter. The ones who knit when its snowing and a cup of hot cocoa is close by and the fireplace is cracklin. Well the storms the other day changed all that. I wanted to do something, but what. Couldn't play on my PC and I didn't really want to learn to much, after all a brain can hold so much, LOL. But still I didn't want to just sit there like an ant on a log. and I really didn't want to clean house : (. So why not knitting.
I looked at the sweaters, hats and gloves and all the cool kinda stuff to knit up but I wanted to do a fast project and something that didn't take much thinkin. So I remember one patern to make washclothes from a homesteading magazine called
Down To The Roots
Thats what I needed to fill the need to do something. One of tenzi's under appreciated washclothes. I whipped one up in on time and working on another. These are great to wash dishes with. Look I got a big old spool of cotton yarn to make many, LOL Are you on my Christmas list this year , hummmmmmm. : )
Food:
Oh I really like this part, sis is cooking split Cornish Hens on the grill and corn on the cob and other fixins tonight. We are going to wait tell it cools down a bit but I'm sure hurngry now. I'm going to see whats in the garden as far as a salad, maybe toss in some daylilies too.
Thanks for dropping by. I got some other projects to share and if they look good I'll have some pictures too. Hey I'll even post a picture of tonights dinner if it looks good and everyone can wait for the photo shoot.
Take good care, many Blessings
linda
Oh BTW, the butterfly has left the building. You know the one a few blogs back. I was watching it close, make sure a spider didn't have it for lunch. Well he was still in his shell in the morning, come the afternoon gone and no signs of spider feast either. : )
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