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 :)
WE HAVE BABY BIRDIES!!!
So excited, we have baby birds in our bird house that I painted last winter. I heard them peeping today after work, my husband got our tripod attached the camera and recorded them for a second.
Ugly little dudes but they sound so cute! Lol.
I think there are three in there! Here is the video!
http://youtu.be/hnnh45wQ-jA
I planted my veggies last weekend and some have already come up!
I will talk about that more when more are up and I can take some pictures.
Today I planted all my baby veggies outside, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumber and melons. I liked the idea to have them in pots last year. I did that with my leftovers after I had planted the bulk of them in my raised beds. Although I did get zucchini and squash, they took over my beds and I had a hard time managing them up there.
The ones I had done in their own pots later in the year worked out great, so this year I decided to put them all into their own individual pots. The only thing I didn't like last year was that grass grew between them and it was awful to mow (according to my husband) and once the squash took hold of the fence you couldn't move the pots.
So this year my husband put landscape ties on the ground and I put some landscape fabric down underneath so no more grass. My yard is sloped so I put a 2X4 down and set the backend of the pots down onto it so now they are level.
I'm hoping this works better and I get a decent yield :) I will still use the fence for them to crawl up. Every year I learn something new, I really love this hobby!
My first hole is plugged!! Well that didn't sound dirty at all did it, lol.
It's been less then two weeks since I released my bees and they have been busy working around my yard. I walked up to the bee house yesterday and saw that one of the holes in the nesting trays was plugged.
This is so cool, I can't believe it's all working out so fantastically. Now hopefully with a little more luck I will have cacoons to dig out in the fall!
The only problem I'm having is that all my fruit trees seem to be late this year, they are barely in bud. Except my one cherry tree, it's about to bloom but if none of the others go I'm afraid I won't get cherries on it again this year :(
Either way I am totally excited about my bees! They really are a joy to watch.
So I've really been craving wonton soup, and I've been eating it from our local Chinese restaurant. Which is amazing BUT, well you know.
So I decided to make my own, I have to say it turned out not bad at all!
Here is what I did.
1 pkg of ground pork
1 ham steak
4 green onions
3 carrots
1 C mushrooms
1 baby Bok Choy
1 carton low sodium organic chicken broth
1 small brocoli top
1 egg
1 Tbsp apple & sage spice from epicure
A sprinkle of salt
A sprinkle of coconut flour
Celery salt to taste
In a mixing bowl combine pork, egg, epicure spice, salt and coconut flour. Hand mix together and form little balls. In a soup pot bring chicken broth to a boil and carefully drop pork balls in. Turn down to a simmer and cut your veggies. Cut 1/2 the ham steak into chunks and add to your soup. Simmer for about 10-15min until balls start to float. Add your veggies and celery salt, simmer for about another 5 min and wa la, wonton soup. I may play around with the spices a bit more but I quite enjoyed it .
