To My blogging community I am very sad to report iPad #2 has taken a tumble this time it's my own fault for not putting it where it should have been. I had to take a small hiatus from blogging to try and get my house cleaned... Which as most of you know is not an easy task if you have a husband and a two year old. That and my Pinterest addiction has grown in to an obsession I am happy to report I have made several hundred scrabble tile necklaces which if I knew how to hold a give away on a blog I would. But for now I will settle for a blogging mentor that I could pay with my crafting knowledge and art classes, any one that would be willing to help me better understand the world of blogging and how to step it up. To get some real interaction I feel so alone in here with no one to communicate with other than my own thoughts. Any how back to my obsession I have also been gardening crazy.... I am even to the point where I want to sew little man his own garden gnome outfit and have him frequent my garden.
It's hard enough being inexperienced and even harder trying to learn something new, but even worse when it's under unusual conditions. This weather it's getting me all kinds of confused. So we go the potatoes and onions in the ground back in February. The garlic was planted some time in November I think... I should have written that down. We have had strange weather... Nice warm getting hot one week then bam outta nowhere drop down to freezing three or four times since our supposed last frost. We lost the green part of our potatoes.... To one of the freezes then they came back.... I am still working on them... They now have small bushy greens with ver small flowering buds. I hope the potatoes the produce won't be an embarrassment to our school... All our hard work we would like to feed more than one small child.
So the garlic and onions.... Harvested them today. I could have probably waited a few more weeks on the onions but the ants were beginning to make nice and walk away with our onions. I have to admit this is my first time to grow garlic. Now that its grown and harvested I am trying to figure out what to do with it all. I have done my you tube research and learned that I need to cure the garlic. (Just so you know I live in surburbialand and don't have a back shed for drying out vegetables). I brought the garlic and onions home to learn about this curing process. I have some laying out on my sons little tykes climbing castle thing, and the onions on a lawn chair. I feel like a real urban gardener. So please don't burst my bubble just yet. I am still patting my self on the back and working on my gardener of the year award.
I had my students unwillingly weed and de-ant one of the raised beds. We now have 3 tiny tomatoes plants, planted in there, Tomorrow I am taking another two tomato plants for that bed. We also planted six bell pepper plants and tomorrow I plan to add a mammoth jalapeño plant and a red chili plant. As well as get okra and corn planted. I don't know anything about corn other than i like to eat corn, and Sandra Cisneros has a poem about my friend Lucy who smells like corn, well only one way to find out I plan on growing half a bed of corn and the other half cucumbers.
Till next time I get my hands dirty. Lets all try to learn something new.
