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Earthbox Garden: Week 15

Our little garden continues to grow and be amazing!

I harvested another large zucchini and see a smaller one I should be able to get probably Tuesday, along with a small yellow squash. There are several lovely blossoms on the yellow squash plant and I saw a couple bees working in them!

The bell peppers are still looking good, too. One plant has three big peppers, but I have decided to leave them to see if they will turn red. I had to harvest one small one because it was burned.

Both tomato plants are FULL of tomatoes in varying sizes and colours. I grabbed three perfectly ripe red ones today, but I saw several that were just turning and will be ready for harvest by next weekend (if not sooner!): 

Here's my harvest for this week:

I chopped up the tomatoes and pepper and added them to a pasta salad with chunk tuna for a quick and delicious lunch:

 

Teaser Tuesday: The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
•Grab your current read 

•Open to a random page 

•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week I'm reading The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa, the latest installment in the Iron Fey series. At least until October or November when the next book comes out! Here is my teaser from page 121:

Ash's voice snapped me out of my terrified daze, and I instinctively jerked to attention, raising my sword. "Remember what I taught you," he growled somewhere to my left, clipped and breathless from fighting his own assailants. "This is no different."

See It Sunday: Cold

Beer in a snowbank. 

Gardening Update

Welcome to this week's Earthbox Garden update!! The tomatoes are still going strong, as are the peppers. The squash plants are fading, but still producing. So far this appears to be a very successful gardening year for us!!

 

I went ahead and harvested the yellow squash and the bigger of the zucchinis:

The rest of the backyard is outrageously overgrown. I'm going to have to do some serious chopping, deadheading and clearing out, but .... not this weekend! Maybe later!

First Tomato of 2011

Tonight I harvested my first little red tomato. Isn't he cute?

 

I introduced him to the little zucchini I harvested this past weekend ...

 

... and together they made a delicious addition to my chicken salad!

 

The end.

Earthbox Garden Update

Our garden still looks awesome and is still producing lots of veggies!

 

The tomatoes are going like gangbusters, and there's even a little red tom in there almost ready to harvest!

 

 

 

The two pepper plants each have some little green bells on them ... I'm still waiting for some nice, sweet reds!

 
 
 

The squash are both doing okay. I grabbed two zucchinis and noticed a couple others that should be ready next week. The yellow squash had more failures than successes, but I did see a couple bees working away at the blossoms, so hopefully we'll get a couple more of those before the plants totally die out.

 
 
 
 
 

 

The rest of the yard is insane! Those one shrubs I cut down earlier (I think they're cat mint) are HUGE again and they've bloomed so they're covered with bees. I'm going to wait until the blooms die dwon before cutting them COMPLETELY down. Frankly I hate them, and intend to dig them out this fall. The grasses are outrageously tall, too, and while the landscaper said I would only need to cut them down once a year (in February, he said, after the last frost), I'm thinking I'll have to cut them down way before then.

 

Photo Friday: Seashore

 

Pismo Beach, California

Teaser Tuesday: The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can 
play along! Just do the following:
•Grab your current read •Open to a random page •Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much 
away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their 
TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week I'm reading The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa. It's the second book I purchased on my new ereader Nicky the nook. I'm really enjoying reading on the nook - much more than I thought I would! The only problem I have encountered, that would never happen with a real book, is that one day the battery ran down, so I had nothing to read on the bus ride home. I was pretty bummed, but since then I've been very careful with how I store Nicky in my purse, making sure there's nothing pressing up against the on/off button, and haven't had any more trouble with it. 

Anyway, here's my teaser for this week from page 10:

I looked down at the Unseelie prince and sneered at the pathetic figure. Could I really have loved such a weakling once upon a time?

Weekend Gardening Update

Well, the garden is coming along pretty well. The tomatoes are doing great  (well one is doing fantastic and the other one is getting completely crowded out by its Earthbox roommate, but is still green and healthy-looking), both pepper plants are starting to grow (although the box still isn't taking much if any water) and each have produced a small green bell pepper, and the squash and zucchini are still producing as well. Yesterday I harvested a small yellow squash (as well as the two peppers), but left a couple tiny zucchinis to grow a few more days. Here are the pics:

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I used one of the green peppers in a tuna pasta salad for lunch yesterday, and the yellow squash I steamed along with one of last weekend's zucchinis for dinner, all the veggies were delicious! I'm looking forward to getting a lot more produce soon!

See It Sunday: Colour