How My Garden Grows

Just a quick post and a few photos tonight...

My garden is actually starting to produce a few things FINALLY!

I've picked a few tomatoes and enjoyed the thoroughly summertime lunch of tomato sandwiches exactly twice so far.  There are pumkins and winter squash growing to decent size, and tiny cucumbers and yellow squash starting.  The 3rd planting of beans came up, and have since disappeared.  I think I have a total of 8 corn plants after 3 plantings as well.  It's very disappointing.  

I did send a soil sample in for testing.  The results show that the garden is low in phosphorus and high in magnesium.  They gave some suggestions for correcting this, so we will try to make those amendments this fall.

In other news, J and I made these delicious and colorful spring rolls out of crab meat, seasoned rice noodles and veggies last week.  They were lovely!

L and I finally finished painting the grave markers for the kitties and Kali.  Here is our complete Pet Cemetary:

From L to R:  Lizzie, Ernie, Kali...

Kali, Zach, Daisy

And finally, I am enjoying using my new glass fronted side by side freezer/fridge as a giant bulletin board.  I write a "Today in History" factoid on the left, and a quote on the right.

Seldom Seen

We have made a few interesting discoveries up on the Ridge over the past couple of weeks.

I received this box in the mail last week, which contained a bouquet of sunflowers from Chewy.com as a sympathy gift after the loss of our kitty.

They were confused about Lizzie's name...Stella is alive and well.

L and I have been walking around the property and picking wild black raspberries this week.  We haven't seen any up here for a few years.  We already made a peach/black raspberry cobbler this weekend.

On our walks, we found evidence of racoons enjoying the raspberries as well.

I also discovered these in our sad, sad orchard - after 13 years of trying to grow fruit trees, there are 2 whole apples on our apple tree!

There is no end to the surprising things we find up here!