Good year for lettuce
Hello Hunnies. Is it raining buckets in New York? We've had rain here for two weeks and it's getting to be a downer. Last week we were on vacation down south so we were just worrying from afar. But this week has been sad, watching the peas rot and little seedlings being eaten by mean slugs. (I actually haven't watched any slugs eating since I squish the little slimy pests as soon as I find them.) I just keep telling myself it's a bad year for (name any crop) but a good year for lettuce. We're going to try to pick strawberries tomorrow for jam. Hope they don't all have mold! We are all doing well really. Things at the station are getting thin but Nate still has a job. Anna and Jane are in summer school a few hours a week which is wonderful for us all. I'm keeping calm with reading and a little quilting in the evening. The chickens are good, growing fast. We look forward to eggs in September. Nate is puttering on computers in the basement. How many husbands are puttering on computers tonight? I bet a large percentage. Have a great Independence Day!
posted by Kareemsa @ 10:07 PM
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Yeah we were getting quite of bit of various greens in the beginning weeks of the CSA but now we are getting good stuff (not that greens aren't good its just how many days a week can you get kids to eat salad!?). This week we got red and green peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, peas, onions and of course lettuce! And Matt brought me in the "first fruits" on the raspberry bushes that are finally producing fruit!!
My petunias are rotting in the front garden, but everything else is surviving. We'll see what the beetles eat this year. It's been very rainy, which is starting to wear on both Noah and myself. Let's hope things start to dry up soon- we're all starting to mold. I'm moving slow. This baby is riding low and it's doing strange things to my hips.
And, yes, John is in the basement many hours a day playing with computers: his work laptop, his new lapbook, and an old iMac he's converted to a Linux box. (I get the iMac, of course.)
Well I guess Matt and I are the only ones who pretty much kill anything and everything they plant or forget to plant and leave unwatered. :) We definitely don't have green thumbs. But then that's what the Austin Farmer's Market is for. :)
It is wonderful to hear from those of you with a green thumb. Jenn - I'm with you - I have the opposite! I don't know if Karen remembers, but we once took a sprig of Karen's ivy plant home with us after a vacation (maybe ten years ago?) I still have the sprig, but I'm sad to say that it only has a few leaves left on it, LOL! :) Happy summer to all.
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