The Curious Case of the Tomatoes in the Tomato
Here’s a weird one.
Yesterday I went down into what remains of the vegetable garden to see what was usable for dinner. I found a couple of nice eggplants, plenty of basil and half a dozen ripe–heading towards over-ripe–tomatoes, so I decided to make Eggplant Parmesan. I picked the fruit and headed back to the kitchen.
I [...]
So ends the summer of 2009
It’s been a little slow here at the ranch as of late. Late summer’s heat and dryness really don’t make for a good gardening atmosphere, so I’ve been laying low waiting for the seasons to change and the heat to go.
Last night was the last sunset of the summer of 2009 and autumn begins today [...]
Life of a sunflower patch
Labor Day has come and gone and there’s only two weeks left of summer. I can tell.
The sun, still bright and yellow, is no longer directly overhead at mid-day. Most of the perennials need a good pruning and many of the summer annuals are spent. The garden looks tired in general.
For the next couple of [...]
Photo of the Day: Guard Duty
I walked into my drive today and looked across the road to see this little guy staring back at me from atop an old fence post:
That’s a male California Quail. What’s not readily apparent from the photo is that he is standing on a post that’s about 3 feet above of 25 or so more [...]
Sunflower update
June was an unusually cool month here in the San Diego area, so the sunflowers really seemed to stall out. Then the last week of June the clouds disappeared, the days heated up and bang! — The sunflowers took off.
» This is the garden on June 7, 2009
Here it is on June 30th, 2009:
And here [...]
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