Monday, August 27, 2012

Mixing it up a bit.


Hello All.

Not dead or anything. Things over here have been rather hectic. The Stay at home gardener has been primarily focusing on mundane things such as a 9-5 job. Go figure. :) Worry not. My eventual goal is still to have an adequate parcel, owner-hand built home, and a means to keep myself going. Micro greens at farmers markets perhap?

Now that the weather has grown more mild everything has been flowering again. Number of more peppers are growing. Everything had been held in limbo for a while there. We've been harvesting heaps of heirloom tomatoes. I've been eating okra straight off the bush. Next time I plant out Okra I'll dedicate a dozen or so plants to it in order to get enough at a shot to make whole meals.

A few months ago we planted out two plants of sugar baby watermelons. There is now a dozen of them amongst the vines. They are mature sized, however, when I checked out one a week or so ago it was still white inside. It has me curious whether they will ripen... Any ideas? So far they are all over dark green aside from a patch of yellow on the bottom where it touches the straw mulch. I'm leery sacrificing another one just to check if its becoming red inside.

The jalepenos are more like bell peppers. Really thought it would have been hot enough this year to get a little spice out of them. *shrugs* I'll toss them in soup as a substitution for bells. Hmm... Idea. I'm currently hungry and there is heirloom tomatoes on their way out... eggplants, potatoes, peppers, and leeks etc. SOUP!

Now for the mix up: Here is a music video from an old friend of mine back in Arizona. It came out amazingly well.

http://youtu.be/I7A0gZaPXfY

8 comments:

  1. Cloud, check out Stoney Acres blog on how to pick a ripe watermelon...

    http://ourstoneyacres.com/picking-the-perfect-melon

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    1. Hmm, all about a dry tendril closest to the mellow. OK. Got it. Im going to check now.

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    2. Hrmf. Well I was too leery to cut off a large one. So instead I took a smaller one that had a shriveled tendril. It also had a yellowing spot and a thud. It was white inside but I could see the turnings of red. At least this time the white flesh had more of a flavor to it albeit not all that sweet. :) Plenty more to experiment with!

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  2. welcome back and glad to hear you're having your hands full with harvest. Good luck with watermelon!

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  3. Yay, glad to 'see' you again. We missed you. But we all understand, life does often get in the way of the fun stuff huh? Ha. I haven't grown them but they are on my list. I did have a neighbor that grew them and said the same thing. Look for a yellow spot on the bottom and then the tendril tip. I hope you get some delicious sweet melons and please show a picture of one sliced open and ready to be enjoyed. :-)

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    1. and wow, your friend has an awesome voice. I enjoy that style of music and his making it a tribute to Anna is pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing!

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    2. Thanks 1st. Doug certainly has an amazing skill there. The song is catchy. I've been pseudo-singing it to my cat all afternoon.

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