victory garden 07
Started knitting something on Monday night, put the turtleneck on hold. This project uses bulky yarn and big needles, and I’m going to jump back to it as soon as I get this blog entry in.
Now for the “excuse my crafting, this is what I have really been working on lately post”.
Last spring I decided that since we are at war, Americans should be conserving materials to help the war effort. One way to do this is to grow your own food. It really reduces the amount of fossil fuels devoted to transporting your food, and allows you use the compost from your plant-mass garbage. Some may argue that I am being less American by not purchasing food and supporting our GDP in a time of war, but I don’t listen to those people.
So into being sprung the VICTORY GARDEN 06, inspired from the WWII era victory gardens. It was for the most part, a failure. We had some herbs, but nothing else came up besides weeds.
This year, things are really taking off:
My mother brought down the chives on the end. Yes, that’s a plastic bucket. It has got a gaping hole on one side, so it isn’t useful for much else. We’ve got herbs and beets planted on the end, too. We are going to have way to many potatoes. They are great to grow, as they come up faster than any of the weeds in our yard, and love to be covered with more and more dirt.
This is the little planter I tried to crochet together with twine. As you can see, most of the side is BRICK:
Here’s the lettuce. My mother says we should start picking some of it.
Got the snap peas in late.
Planter radishes and onions. The radishes are about ready!
Here are the green beans. Planted a second round this weekend.
Ty and my summertime favorite: PORCH MINT! It grows under our deck, and we use it so often that it isn’t a pest.
We’re still tempering the tomato plant with the outdoors. It really can’t take the wind too well yet, even with a cage.