Friday, May 4, 2012

How the garden grows

 It's been raining for a few days. It seems the rainy season has finally come! It's been lovely and cool. Reminds me of spring in Texas. Actually it's making me a bit homesick. It's so nice not to be sweating all the time. To enjoy snuggling with the kids, rather than bearing the extra heat they bring when they crawl in my lap.

It is time to plant trees and gardens. Yesterday we planted Purple beauty bell peppers and yellow peppers in these cups. We will transplant them at the farm in two or three weeks.
 Bob continues to work on this interlocking block form. Here it is so far. Next the tricky part- making the press lever.
 We planted the little garden at the house a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately nothing that we planted came up, other than a few lettuce sprouts which have been eaten by some kind of creature. Bush babies or a big caterpillar, is my guess. But look at this nice stand of....sorghum! Where did that come from??
Well, Bob mixed sorghum in the last batch of chicken feed. We used chicken manure to fertilize the garden....I guess that sorghum wasn't digested too well!
 There's also a few burgundy okra plants growing. Bob likes the stuff. It tastes pretty good made with coconut milk!


 And this is some pretty fungus growing on our fence post.

Can this kid pout, or what??? My almost-two-year-old can be pretty moody nowadays!

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