Another downside, for those of you who know. While I am trying to get us "food sustainable" here , right now we are not. Also because of living on disability we get Food Stamps. We just went up for re certification, was told a worker would call for an interview here back on Friday at 9am my time. Ok, no problem. ..yeah, I sat in the house all day waiting for that call. At about 10 am I tried to "talk to a person" via their various phone numbers. Yeah, nope sorry. Seems you can't talk to a person, but I did wind up leaving 2 messages on their "person call worker" interview option. So it's possible we'll lose our food money. Plus side is it'll be when our garden is producing and we have eggs so I'm not terribly concerned. However it irks me.
As for the garden...
I have PICS!
This is my acorn squash, we are hoping to have a lot of these for this winter, I have put some marigold seeds in the center to both attract pollinators and to make the insects that don't like them to run away. Funny thing is I planted these about the same time as my zucchini and look...
Definite difference in size there. The zucchini is smaller right now. Though I know it will catch up eventually. We're planning on drying over have of what we produce of these for animal feed this winter.
Here is one of my bunches of snow peas (I got my first pod off them this morning!), they are loaded with flowers though not many pods just yet. I'm hoping they finish before the Cherokee purples and the lemon cucumbers get too big or the peas will be coming out.
Speaking of the tomatoes...
If you can see, just past that pea is one of my tomatoes. They are starting to flower already! We're definitely waiting on these to produce fruit.
This is one of the bell peppers, it's also looking like it'll flower soon even though it's not very tall yet. I am debating pinching the first flowers off to let it grow more.
My pole beans have sprouted, we're hoping for a lot from these for chili making this winter. Also this is one of two varieties of dry bean we are growing. I planted tiger's eye as well. They grow as a bush however and can also be eaten as a green bean. I don't have pics of those as they only just started coming up.
Here are the cucumbers I planted for pickling. If we have an over abundance of the lemons don't do well we'll be eating these too. They were planted next too the pole beans. I am thinking of growing some kale for the rabbits and the chickens for winter on the other side of these.
Now, this "mess" is my spinach patch. It's really taking off after the rains we got this weekend. Seems to be very happy.
These, would be the sunchokes. They seem to be a prolific as I have heard and seem to be growing just fine. That is a two foot stake in the foreground, so you have some prospective. I have discovered that I have a few surprises in my sunchoke bed however.
Apparently, there were some tomato seeds in the chicken manure I added to this bed. I staked two of the tomatoes this morning. However, it seems there are five plants growing in my sunchoke bed and they seem very happy. So I will let them grow where they are. Also I have no earthly idea what kind they are as I grew three different kinds last year. So I will wait and see what they produce, here's to hoping they are edible at least.
I thought I'd share this. It's one of the wild roses from around here. Seems all the blooms came out white on the roses this year. It's wonderful to walk past this and take a deep breath in. I do wish I knew why they all are white though. Last year they were all pink, so maybe it's yearly change?
Oh one of the rabbit moms had her littler and it seems she had between 6-8 babies, they have a date with the freezer in 2 months. (yes i eat my rabbits and if one bit you they wouldn't be cute anymore)
Well I need to head back out and weed some more, happy gardening!
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