... well enough about Gilead - let's get this show on the road ...
... crazy velcro grape-weed coverlet on the entire
garden that I had to rip up & throw out last night!!!
beet & pea garden (somewhere in there - according to my copious & detailed notes of 2010 is a pocket melon too) I HOPE!
BUT ... let us not be easily fooled into thinking those at the far left nor bottom right leaves are melon leaves - they aren't - they're grape-like 'velcro vines'
... according to these same said super detailed notes - with this bit I now notice that's missing (just what made me think because I knew enough this year to put EVERYTHING into one notebook that I'd remember to actually write EVERYTHING down - UGH) Oh well - I can't exactly close said book on my head now and expect info to drop out like I'm shaking basil seeds into a plastic seed-saving bag can I - and especially knowing now I no longer know; ie, a little bit of a mixed up stoner metaphor where no seeds unturned are left in the birdsbrain but no worries - according to this notoriously poor notetaking I do - or don't - it's sort of safe to say that these are NOT the coveted Chantrais Melons from France - known first and foremost for their fragrant sweetness - and secondly for their tasty numiness - ... but let's back it up a bit again right here and remind ourselves that just because it's written in 'the book of me' doesn't mean TOO MUCH the other way either - obviously - though they do look decidedly the same as the ones on another different plant that looks exactly the same one that has the Pumpkins growing on it? Gayla who is more of an expert thinks it's all one big plant - and rightly so - everything's beside each another and there's enough leaves that one - well make that - I for sure - can no longer tell which ones are coming from where anymore - especially with all that crazy velcro grape vine covering everything up ... yes - let's not forget about that or anything anymore ... starting NOW.
velcro vine! ... nasturtiums, stevia, rosemary & thyme (at home rooting) - I HOPE!
... and here are those 'home-rooting'
hoardings (woOps - collections) ...
Zucchini Patch (wait for it - you'll be introduced to Zaid later - Zaid the Zuc)
... some san marzanoes (didn't name them - had other things to do)
New Patch beside Zaid's Zuc Patch (notice the
black brandywines & 'o why are THEY elongated
- you ask - don't - just trust - as am I - the
chipmunk that munched on the one on the right
(the bites outta sight) that he's not picking
up the little copper engraved markers using 'em
as menus and gotten 'em all mixed up! Couldn't
have happened ... and pretty safe to say it sure
as heck wasn't me getting name things wrong ...
Kale Patch with Stray Tomatoes, Okra, Fennel,
an Eggplant, Edamame & Weeds (have I mentioned
'weeds' yet ... velcro grape is not the melon
I thought it might be either - it's a weed and
one that won't let go of anything it gets it's
little clinging vines on? To kill it I've been
told I would have to cut it off from the main
stem - and hell if I know if THAT was ever found
last night ... when I get busy I don't stop 'til
I'm dizzy - weeding's like housework)! And yes,
seriously I thought it was a melon and I've been
guiding it's vine up & over & around all Summer
so it would cover certain places and look pretty
(not to mention producing my very own varigated
orange Queen Anne pocket melon deodorant balls).
THE main PATH in - or NOT
In front of the 'hut' ... but can you see it through the grapevine - the hut?
Today's Catch .. the whole haul!
... Gayla said she just throws whatever stuff she gets
sometimes all into a crock pot some nights and lets it
stew ... so that's what I did! I had a slow cooker that
has been waiting for a good reason to strut it's stuff ...
and did it ever ... the peas & beans & okra & kale was
almost entirely flavoured with just some salted lemony
tomatoes, fennel & whatever other garden bits there were.
Too pretty not to post ... especially the little sweet peas.
... leftovers - after 'Chippy' had his fill ... I squished the seeds out of the half eaten tomatoes (Julie, another gardener, if you've been following my earlier blogs you'll be a little familiar with Julie, last night, she told me she was dying to either kill me or the chipmunk for letting these particular tomatoes in MY garden go to 'seed' like that ... or some such ... maybe she said 'waste' whatever ... so 'waste not want not' ... 'I plant some for my friends and some for me - no biggie' ... I decided to save some seeds for Julie) HA.
... and finally as a nod to 'ned the dog', I've given my great big fat zuc the human name, Zaid ... see Gayla's shot
here if you missed it on Flickr via Twitter ... (you kinda had to be there - at the
BBQ) but trust me ned the dog - try as he might - just can't be a good doggie ... I've known him for a short while and last I saw him after he was drinking and swirling about in the birdbath just after having been called on his trespass - and from up on the pedestal where he was, ned heard his name called and he looked up with a whiskery smile poised to sit - like a good doggie - but just ever so short as usual of getting it quite right - yet again) ... I turned away as Gayla shot him ... for sure when he heard his name called he thought he was getting a treat! Not very opaque - that ned - quite unlike
Seattle wes who got someone named Judy to try to help him hitch a ride to Toronto mind you. Is this post over yet? OK - almost.
Zaid was waiting for me on the kitchen floor this
morning. The name, Zaid, is African for growing
big (or something like that - I think). He kind
of scared me a little when I went to make coffee.
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