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.

Mystery Greens Gone Wild!

Mystery greens original has grown about 3 feet tall and is now flowering and seeding on the top. We are experiencing a very mild summer (a lot of 60 degree weather) so the lettuces and greens should do very well.
This is another of the series of "let them go wild" to see if I can get year-to-year starts that need very little attention.

My Flowering Potato Plant

This is my best looking potato plant so far. I have about 10 different plants in various places in the yard. My hope is to leave a couple of them to "go wild" and not harvest right away.
I once had a tomato garden that literally did go wild and from year to year we would have wild tomato plants starting up on their own. Wild plants seem to make some of the healthiest ones and need very little pampering.

Baby Mystery Greens

The backyard, mysterious greens that me and my bugs have been munching on have multiplied! Now there are actually three separate plants. One is so close to the original plant that they look like one, while the third is further back. I also found more potato's in my wine barrel planter.

Winter Potato Yield

Who would of thought I would get a potato yield from a few chopped off sprouts of potato's I used in a soup. I had thrown the sprouts, mid-winter no less, in a few of the backyard pots just to see what possibly could happen. I was finding quite a few of these little potato's; none bigger than the biggest shown in this picture.

Seed Collecting update

More seed collecting from some organic green beans that were ready to be composted. Sometimes I don't cook up my veggies in a timely fashion and a few become compost. I couldn't resist the seeds on the inside.