Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
September Update (Matt's home alone edition)
So welcome to this update on our plants and how they are progressing and how we are progressing to eat them. First and certainly the best is the tomatoes. We have tons of them, more than I can eat. I was just outside taking pictures and scarfing down cherry tomatoes so good they make your skin tingle. Nothing can be bought at a store that even comes close to this experience.
Since Shanna is out of town with the camera, I had to take these with the built in camera on my computer.
We also discovered that we have hops growing in the yard. It was a big vine that was always growing out of control and we thought it might be a kind of grape but no grapes ever came. Then recently we started seeing these funny looking flowers and what do you know its covered with little hops things.
We have two kinds of peppers, cayenne and bells, the bell pepper plant has only made one pepper the whole freaking year! but it looks like there may be a few more starting now so it wont be a total failure. the cayenne plants were sooo slow to start, we planted them from seed in February and they didn't start making peppers until around August. That said, they are now covered with peppers, heaps and heaps of them, but they are all still green and we were told that they don't get really spicy and delicious until they turn red. If anyone knows, feel free to comment.
Now the summer is almost over. It is the last nice weather before we have to start wearing unreasonable amounts of clothing to ward off hypothermia. the sunflowers are in full bloom and some have started to fall over. I took one inside to brighten the apartment while Shanna is away. And of course me with the tomato harvest of the day.
Cheers.
Since Shanna is out of town with the camera, I had to take these with the built in camera on my computer.
We also discovered that we have hops growing in the yard. It was a big vine that was always growing out of control and we thought it might be a kind of grape but no grapes ever came. Then recently we started seeing these funny looking flowers and what do you know its covered with little hops things.
We have two kinds of peppers, cayenne and bells, the bell pepper plant has only made one pepper the whole freaking year! but it looks like there may be a few more starting now so it wont be a total failure. the cayenne plants were sooo slow to start, we planted them from seed in February and they didn't start making peppers until around August. That said, they are now covered with peppers, heaps and heaps of them, but they are all still green and we were told that they don't get really spicy and delicious until they turn red. If anyone knows, feel free to comment.
Now the summer is almost over. It is the last nice weather before we have to start wearing unreasonable amounts of clothing to ward off hypothermia. the sunflowers are in full bloom and some have started to fall over. I took one inside to brighten the apartment while Shanna is away. And of course me with the tomato harvest of the day.
Cheers.
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