I have always said that I would never join a club that would have someone like me as a member.
Welp, I can't say that anymore because today I joined the local Men's Garden Club.
Such a deal I couldn't refuse! For a mere $25.00 a year, I have the opportunity to go to another property and pull weeds twice a week!
I think it's time I start tip-toeing back into the world. Baby steps, right?
This is my new creative venture: A house. A big house. A big house that needs a lot of work. A big house that needs a lot of work that will be so amazing when it's finished that I'll hate to see it sell as quickly as it will sell. (Hear me, universe?)
This is just the beginning of getting the jungle that will be the back yard under control. It may not appear to be a creative process just yet but it is!
Consider this a sneak peek. Much more on this later.
This garden should have been in months ago so it's skipping the lettuces and straight on to tomatoes, cucumbers and cantaloupes!
This is more of a re-make than a make, but I have a lot of plants in the wrong spot so while the weather is good I made hay while the sun shone and will hope it will rain cats and dogs later this weekend. (Idioms for Idiots because Idioms for Dummies just doesn't sound as good!)
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It's that happy time of year again where I squeeze and freeze the juice from the Meyer lemons on the tree. This is about half the lemons that are still out there - the one's I could reach so there's another round of squeezing and freezing in my very near future.
At about a half cup of lemon juice for a mid sized lemon, I was able to get 1.5 gallons of juice out of these babies.
I freeze the juice in ice cube trays. Each cube = 2 T of juice so it's perfect for recipes and for the salad dressing I make fresh almost every day:
4 garlic cloves mashed with 2 t of salt
6 T lemon juice
3 T olive oil
(these are approximate measurements because I eyeball the whole thing) My family loves this stuff and we've never had any trouble with vampires to boot!
The rinds are in the fridge in the hopes that hubby will make some of his wonderful lemoncello. Guess I'd better pick up the jet fuel aka grain alcohol to ensure that project gets done!
My garden has been loaded with broccoli so last night was soup and the last of the broccoli. I think the rabbit got the other head.
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I highly recommend this recipe: Roasted Broccoli and Cheddar Soup. I made the unhealthy/healthy version of it. There were two options at the bottom of the recipe.
I did both because I'm a firm believer in moderation!
Next up in the garden: Cabbage! Any and all recipes will be greatly appreciated!
That gnarly plant is known as a Hercules Club. Right now I'm not sure if it's a weed that will become a plant (after all, a weed is just a plant in the wrong place) or if it's a weed that shall remain a weed and go to that place where all weeds should go.
If it's to become a plant, I really need to move it and move it soon! This baby can grow to 25 feet of thorny trunked treeness in a matter of minutes months. The plus is that giant swallowtail butterflies consider it a great place to lay their eggs and the minus is, well, fairly obvious.
A Hypercompe scribonia! Everyone knows that!
There was the BIG and now here's the little.
Little Guy found these sprouting in the pods while shucking peas for dinner the other night. Two days ago they weren't even above the soil!
And speaking of little and BIG, this is "our" new baby Sandhill Crane. Talk about growing pains! The first picture was on April 2nd. The second picture was taken a mere 19 days later. He must wake up every morning to find that the ground has been moved further away from him!
This is what happens when you plant a radish seed and forget to harvest it!
