Yeah! My first melon..
This is the first year I have grown melons, not sure if it will finish this year though. Our weather has started to turn and you can definitely feel fall in the air.
These guys also got a late start, I did start them indoors in my light garden but they received some frost in early June.
They pretty much died off to the ground and started again, but when the hot weather finally did hit they grew very well.
This is a sugar baby melon, I thought I would give it a whirl. I planted it in a 1'x1'x1 pot with my normal mix that I do for almost anything (the mix is in another post), and it seems to be doing quite well. I'm very interested to taste this sucker :)
Wow... Where does the time go?
Well I brought my bee house indoors, I was curious to see how many pods they had actually closed. From the photo you can see that they have closed 4 completely, and you can't really see it but there are another 3 pods that are 1/2 mudded up.
It's so exciting! Now I have to wait until October then I will be able to open the compartment and see if there are any cocoons inside. If there are, I will take them out, wash them and put them in the fridge until next spring!
Again if you would like more info on mason bees or where I got my bees and bee house from,
https://www.westcoastseeds.com/product/Gardening-Supplies/Pollination/#sthash.FpwNI1L9.dpbs
This is the first year I have ever grown ground cherries. I'm not sure what to expect but from what I've read about them they are supposed to taste a little like pineapple.
They are coming along quite nicely, I put two plants in about a 12" pot and filled it with my regular mix of organic potting soil, eggshell powder, epson salt, worm castings, sea soil and sheep poop.
I have fertilized the pot once with an organic fish fertilizer just recently, I did all my pots with it.
I think I might just plant one to a pot next year cause they are stretching quite a bit now but they still seem quite happy.
The rest of my garden is also doing good although I did loose my last row of radishes to root maggots :( so far they haven't touched anything else *fingers crossed*
But anyways I can't wait to try them!
I love camping.. Everything about it, I love the campfire, the great outdoors, paddle boarding and of course cooking a wiener on an open fire.
But not having a bun to put it on has been a bit of a change for me. Since going primal two years ago things haven't always been easy, and saying I don't eat gluten or indulge in a piece of cake evey now and again would be a flat out lie. I totally do but also pay for it later.
I try to live the best I can with the 80 20 rule, that doesn't always work but I think I'm pretty close.
I have to admit I feel much better not eating wheat and when I fall off the wagon I really feel it in my bones, my skin and of course the waistline.
So what to do.. Well for me romain lettuce is the answer, works great so all your fixings stay in one place and you don't have to worry about the bloat factor.
Now not saying that processed hotdogs are great for you, but what's camping without the wiener :)
Btw this is romain lettuce out of my own garden!
I got home from a weekend of camping, unfortunately I was sicker then a dog :( and my radish's had exploded!
I am so excited, they taste great too. So I yanked out the biggest ones and ate a couple and put the rest on the fridge.
The rest of my garden is doing well but with the cold snap at the beginning of June I had to replant my cucumbers which are coming up again now. I lost them all :(
But I'm excited to be eating things from my garden already :)
So another Pinterest idea!
I planted a mosquito planter for my deck, I have to say the citronella geranium smells devine. I used all the same plants that they said to use on the website, except my lemon grass wasn't big enough for the planter and I got two varieties of lemon thyme.
I really love this planter but with the exception of the citronella geranium it stinks, lol.
My purple ageratum is a little lost in the middle but otherwise I'm quite happy with it.
This is the website I got this idea from
http://its-a-green-life.com/2013/03/05/build-a-control-container-so-you-can-sit-and-unwind-in-the-evenings-without-dousing-in-deet/
We will see if it actually keeps the little buggers away ;)
So I've been working on my fairy garden for a few years now and every year I add a few new things. It's mostly made up of succulents and creepng thyme.
I do have some pansies and I believe English moss in there, and a few other things that I have collected along the way :)
This year my creeping thyme grew perfectly into my fairy house that I made from drift wood, I think I have an earlier post about the house.
I couldn't have planned it better myself, the fairies sure know what they are doing ;)
It's starting to take shape, I'm thinking a couple more years and it will be full.
I'm hoping to throw some more posts up shortly, I've been really busy and enjoying myself this summer so far. I picked up a new hobby that I will write about shortly :)
