Late Summer Harvest

I've been harvesting tomatoes like crazy. Also green beans, which reminds me I have to do something with the ones in my fridge. I planted a lot less than last year but still maybe too many. And on the weekend I dug up all the potatoes.

The Last of the 2009 Carrots

We are down to our last 2 2009 carrots. They are a bit small and I think when they are washed I might decide there are too many bad spots to bother cutting around. So I am calling Friday's dinner the last of the 2009 carrots. We had them with grocery store veg and chickpea cutlets (http://www.veganpeace.com/recipe_pages/recipes/ChickpeaCutlets.htm). And this was just a few days after planting the 2010 carrots (won't expect to be eating them till June though).

It feels pretty good to have grown enough to last through the winter. They kept very well in the cold cellar but they were getting more and more bad spots over the months and I was getting a bit sick of dealing with those. So I haven't planted quite so many this year.

First batch of seedlings planted

Today I planted my first seeds. I did tomatoes (cherry, regular, and some yellow with pink and red stripes variety that I accidentally bought last year) on the top shelf, herbs (cilantro, basil, oregano) on the middle shelf, and on the bottom shelf I put some of my mesclun mix in a pot and am hoping they will get big enough to eat indoors. And I put a glass plate on top of the pot to make a little green house which I thought was a brilliant idea. I also had my first go of harvesting compost out of my new worm house. It was pretty easy but there were still a few silly worms down at the bottom with the compost. But still WAY better than before.

And while I was in the plant area I noticed some new growth on the top of my mango plant that I thought was slowly dying!


And I also noticed a hole big cluster of buds ready to flower on my lemon tree. We had two flowers open at the same time earlier this week and so I bought a little paint brush and tried to pollinate but one of the flowers fell off as I was doing it so I guess if it was the male that's ok but if it was the female then it was no good... if that's how it works. But when this cluster gets going I'm bound to have some successful pollination.