Garden seems mended

This morning the garden seems mended, like it would rebound pretty quickly. Schwew, or however you pronounce that. Yes, okay so maybe I'm a gardening drama queen.

I brewed the Old Gaffers ESB last night, let me tell you fuggles hops smells ALOT better than Kent Goldings. I'm starting to think I like naming beers as much (or perhaps more) than I like brewing them. Newest beer name Bunny Kicks IPA...

Shit I need to make labels for the proudfeet.

And holy shit google maps new "Street View" is creepy!

At least I still have the homebrew

Holy Shit, it just hailed hard for 20 minutes. Welton St is covered in ice. I kept thinking: maybe I don't want to become a farmer. Having a tiny garden destroyed would be bad enough, having entire fields ruined would be pretty near unbearable. I still have beer fermenting at home, I guess its good to diversify hobbies.

Update: I talked to Steven, and he said the garden isn't too bad off after all that hail, the lettuce is a little flattened but the tomatoes and peppers look undamaged. Sweet!

Gardening Last Weekend

Sunday I suddenly panicked because half the garden is still not filled out and its almost June, so I bought three hot pepper plants 2 Jalapeno (hot and mild) and 1 habanero at Urban Roots. Then I went to another store and bought another basil (which I split into 3 plants, I have a lot of basil...) and another cherry tomato and a cilantro. I also met the friendly rabbit who so far seems to only eat weeds around the garden, not any of the lettuce that is 6 inches from them. (WTF??) But I have a bad feeling that soon I will wake up to an empty, rabitted lettuce patch. But its so damn cute!

Monday I spent the entire day gardening with Bonnie. I dug up part of the weedy front yard and planted some winter squash that will hopefully sprawl across the entire front, I also planted some yarrow that will most likely be levelled the aforementioned squash. Bonnie planted some birdhouse gourd and some hideous (tee hee) chocolate flowers.

transplanted tomatoes, basil,

The garden is starting to flourish. Last Friday we had the first mini-harvest. Bonnie and I made salads (yes yes from store bought lettuce) but we spiked it with arugula from the garden, the arugula is so good! (Actually, I guess we've made mint tea before.) I planted the basil I got at the Botanic Garden plant sale last Thurs morning. Today I planted the tomatoes. I just planted them where there seems to be the most sun. I also just planted bean seeds between the brocolli rows, cuz I think by the time the beans start coming on strong it'll be too hot for the broc. The beans are contender bush beans, which Steven scorned, "bush beans only harvest for a few weeks!" But I'd already boughten the seeds by the time he'd gone into his antibush rant so I figured they'd go to waste otherwise. Plus I like to grow bush and pole beans, because the bush are ready to harvest 3-4 weeks before the pole beans. I also planted crookneck squash seeds in the NW and NE corners of the garden.

Bonnie mentioned getting a hive of bees, which I'd thought about before, but our house is in the middle of 3 or 4 parking lots, so I really don't know what they'd pollinate. Otherwise I would, especially since I doubt either of our neighbors would notice or care.

I bought a second fermentation bucket yesterday and ingredients for a Hefe. Maybe called "There and Back Again Hefe".