New Herbs and Plants

This is our little comfrey plant! I planted it near the water barrel so it will get drenched in the rainy season. The Valerian plant is also in the same bed.

New Herbs and Plants

This year we added two new herbs to our yard. We added Raspberry shown in this picture, and Comfrey. The comfrey is supposed to be especially useful to make a tea fertilizer with the leaves. The bunnies will be able to munch on either plant.

Tomato Progress

I think we may actually a few tomato's despite all of the colder weather. The plants hit a growth spurt and we actually had stake them up. Did you know that you can freeze whole tomato's to later use for soups and chili?

Belly full of blueberries at Blueberry Hill

Local food is the way to go and the u-pick farms usually offer the best prices and the freshest produce you'll ever eat. The key for us is to pick enough to last the whole year!

Newest member of the family

This is Shirley (aka Honeybun). She is our third bunny but we haven't had great luck with the introduction of the other two yet. I am doing the research and finding that we may have to introduce them in a moving vehicle to scare them into bonding! First I am just giving them cage time around each other to adjust to the newness. Shirley is an angora and as I brush her fur I will likely save what comes off onto the brush for spinning into yarn. I am not a motivated harvester, however. I'm just not going to waste what I get.

My husband's handy work

Max has made 2 very beautiful (in my opinion) planter boxes. We currently have our tomatoes, cilantro, basil, and peppers in the large box. The small box will mostly contain lettuces for the fall.
All of the plants shown here were started by seed in our window box except the basil.

I have to say, though, this cool summer we are experiencing isn't exactly helping my tomato plants like it is my lettuce plants. The 60-70 degree coolness has extended the lettuce season, but it seems to slow the development of flowers and fruit on the tomato plants.