Tales from Easement Acres
Do you want to see another garden photo? Of course you do. And if you don’t, I don’t care, because I want to post another garden photo so I can look back on it with satisfaction.
Besides, would you rather I write more Science Fiction? Or poetry?
Didn’t think so.
Tomatoes lie dead.
The wildlife is hungry.
I am seeing red.
–Simon
In the spirit of summer, I’m going to post some produce pictures. Mmmmm, tomatoes.
–Simon
I had trouble with my starter seeds this year. The Spring was so hot and dry that most of what I transplanted immediately died. I also couldn’t get my squashes to germinate.
However, there was a single exception, and the vine quickly revealed itself to be of the summer squash variety. After some time, it began producing fruit. The trouble was, I didn’t know the cultivar, so I didn’t know when to pick them.
But the internet can be quite revealing, even with the super secret and obscure plant varieties, and I identified it as a Ronde De Nice–a French cultivar (go figure).
It’s supposed to taste like zucchini, probably my least favorite squash, so Liz made zucchini bread, and it tasted as such. So I guess it’s a mildly interesting variety, but I doubt I’ll try growing it again.
–Simon
As part of our ongoing suggestion to the neighbor’s kids to stay off my lawn, the raised bed project continues. And this time, the ancient rhubarb has made it to the next plot.
The plant was eager, having provided us multiple desserts last year despite growing in just a few inches of potted soil, so I expect it’ll be even more productive now.
It also seems like one more official step to making the land part of the Moorhead clan lineage, as it now hosts a portion of the official Moorhead Rhubarb.
And, stay off my lawn!
–Simon
So the kid’s garden last year didn’t exactly work out as well as I had hoped. This was mostly due to the fact that she wouldn’t water it, and I had become increasingly lazy about it; so it dried up, save the thyme, but thyme lives through anything. Then the survey determined it to be on Tim’s side. So instead of replanting the same plot, I repurposed a large plastic pot, and indulged her with whatever seeds she wanted from Lowe’s.
As it turns out, she had planted mostly lettuce.
And it did incredibly well.
…we’re still eating salads.
–Simon