"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Harvested in 2008
- 4 quarts snow peas
- 2 pounds turnips
- 4 pounds carrots
- 1/3 quart peas
- 4 pounds shallots
- 21 garlic heads
- many salads
- 9 onions
- a dozen blackberries
- a half cup of sweet corn
- a cup of green beans
To do list:
* Mulch the back planter (when the seeds sprout)
* Spruce up my compost bins
* Get sewing machine serviced
* Get our bikes serviced
* Plant the seed potatoes
* Plant the hibiscus
* Finish planting all the tomato seedlings
* Send the rest of the seed swap seeds (I haven't forgotten you!)
* Repot and separate the aloe vera plant
* Harvest the herbs out front
* Dig up the rest of the shallots
* Plant the new shallot bed
* Start the fall garden seedlings