Showing posts with label organic gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic gardening. Show all posts

Monday, November 30, 2009

Late Harvest


Oven roasted the large carrots and beets. Ate the small carrots raw. So sweet! The carrot tops look funny because the deer had been grazing recently. They seemed to like the beet leaves, too. I'm still getting tomatoes from the amazing plant I bought from the little freckle faced red haired boy at the Kingston farmers' market. I'm hoping he shows up again next spring.

Watched an eagle try to lift a big bird, maybe a grebe, out of the water this afternoon. It made several passes and grabs but didn't have the strength to make a capture. The poor prey didn't survive. I wonder what shape we'd be in if we had to grab our food while it was still alive. I'd be a vegetarian for sure!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Stunted


This poor carrot! Given all the requirements for proper growth and nutrition -- rich organic soil, warm sunny days, pure well water -- all it could do was grow half a carrot, split right down the length -- mutant or birth defect? Maybe Ed Hume will know. I wrote to him yesterday.

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