26 posts tagged “garden”
Matt has been able to harvest food out of the garden every day he has been over and what has resulted in a huge pile of fresh vegetables in the entryway that we are eating our way through. Its good to come home every night and have something fresh to eat right outside your door!
Last night he picked a bucket full of cheery tomatoes so today I am having some for lunch...
I cleaned them off at home - don't they look gorgeous!
Matt planted several Sungold Cheery Tomaso plants and they are giving me tomatoes in my favorite color - orange!
I went vegan about 11 weeks ago and since then its been a bit challenging but what has been great in recent weeks is the garden. At night when I am not sure what to eat I just head outside and see what is ready for pickin! Last night it was eggplant!
Here is the beauty I ate last night next to a great vegan cookbook Matty got me because he loves me and dotes on me and is the best boyfriend ever.
I grilled them up according to the directions in the cookbook, I sliced them thin, salted them and layed them on the stone:
and then layered them with sauce and soy cheese and baked it back in the oven. It was delicious and the soy cheese is awful on its own but great when you cook it!
Today I am taking a couple hours off of work to photograph an elopement - yay fun!
I didn't post anything this week, after the large hurdle we got over last weekend with the floor I took some much needed time off this week from things I have to do... but now its time to get serious again.
The house is moving along nicely and the kitchen is put back together. He is now working on the sanding and taping of the living room and we will be ready to paint no later than Sunday the 20th, which means I could be back in the living room, electricity and all by August 1st! I think that was our goal.
While we have been busy in the house Matt has been busy in the garden. Right before I had to send back the fisheye and 100mm lenses (*sniff) I grabbed some shots of what we are growing.
Here is the garden in its entirety - the only thing you can't see is the pumpkins:
Here I am just inside the fence watching Matt water our cauliflower:
Here I am on the other side.
Here is my matty getting some water for our veggies!
Its hard to tell what stuff is because its all just green, lets get closer!
Tomatoes:
Looking down the row of tomatoes
Thats my shadow!
Here is some lettuce, we had this for dinner last night
And some onions but they aren't even close
This is the whole area of lettuce and peppers, and matt hauling water
We also had squash last night, those plants are growing like crazy and I bet we start having squash a couple of nights a week now
We are also going to have zucchini very very soon
Corn is on its way up but I don't think we have that til August
And the potatoes have flowers and they will die in the fall, that is how we know to dig them up
These are my sunflowers! Thanks to Matt's fence I might actually see them bloom this year!
Well I hope you have enjoyed the tour of the garden, you will see another house post maybe in the middle of this week and I might actually shoot some images for fun this weekend!
I rented some lenses for the wedding I am shooting this weekend because I want to make sure it ROCKS! They came yesterday and this morning I went out to the garden to try them out.
I LOVE THEM!
I rented a Fisheye and now all you fine folk could get a view of the entire garden. Matty is doing such a great job! Those posts you see - those are for the fence Matt is putting up to keep the deer out - maybe I will have sunflowers yet!
I also rented a 100mm Macro lense. It means I can be faraway but still get close up!
This is our baby tomato - we have a few:
These are our peas - they are ready to eat this weekend!
This is one of the sunflowers - I can just see its gloriousness already!
This is some herb I am growing but I can't remember what - anyone know?
First the macro:
Then the fisheye
I LOVE THEM!
And these are two pictures I shot of clothespins just because I like them:
For those wondering out there (and its really only Erin) I shot all of these entirely in manual and shot B&W in camera - ROCK!
Come back around noonish for a post on the renovation - lets just say my hands hurt from holding a hammer :)
its been a slow week in the homestead, my dad just came back to work today, not much he can do until we get the insulation this weekend. Don't worry I have still been CRAZY busy, just on the photography side :)
The good news is that it rained this past week so the garden has seen some growth - lets report on that.
My first order of business is the ant hills. I photographed these two unusually large and complex anthills - I wonder if they are going to be a problem.
I seriously didn't think potatoes would grow - maybe that is because I had never grown them, maybe it was because to plan them you put whole potatoes with the eyes into the ground. But this week they did sprout up and I think the leaves are the most beautiful of all of the vegetables plants, they grow in a little bouquet.
Here is baby bean plant just about ready to stretch its body out of the ground, but for right now its still curled up snuggly in the dirt
and I was surprised to see some of my tomotoe plants have flowers, but one of the guru's at work told me this was normal
and because right now no post would be complete without something from the renovation here is a picture of the temporary lightswitch my dad put in for me today - now I have light going up my stairway. But as you notice the lighting of this picture is crazy! That is because that one hallway light UPSTAIRS is the only light i have to light the entire living room - i had to use a flash and it still wasn't enough.
August 1st people - eye on the prize!
yesterday was the farmers market outside here at work. Matty left me a message about some sunflowers that he wanted. I went out looking for them and I found these - they aren't the exact ones he had seen but sunflowers are sunflowers and they are going to look great against the back wall of the garage. I think Matt hates the plywood that is on the back of the garage right now that is a place holder til I can find a window - this will cover them nicely.
In other news the cucumbers still can't go in the ground b/c of the cold but they are growing like gangbusters! I have some pickling and some slicing. I will make pickles again this year!
The garden was planted this weekend - here is the role call
20 Potato Plants
5 Eggplant Plants
40 Bush Bean Seeds
14 Tomato plants (cheery, yellow, black, and red)
30 Onions
12 Head of Lettuce
3 Summer Squash Plants
4 Watermelon Plants
6 Corn Plants
3 Zucchini Plants
1 Row of Carrots
6 Pepper Plants
Basil
Thyme
Rosemary
Mint
Still left to plan
3 more Watermelon Plants
12 Cucumbers (pickling and slicing)
Pumpkin
We will also succession plant some of those crops so we have food into the fall.
For reference here is my garden post from this time last year:
Once we have all of those crops frozen and canned we should be good for veggies this winter! Here are a few shots out of the garden:
matty came home last night from a weekend at his grandparents and went to work planting the pear trees. For those of you still waiting to see what I got him for our 4 month anniversary he is wearing them in this picture! I kinda blew this anniversary. I had ideas on what I wanted to get him and then never got it executed and then he got me these really great pear trees!
So I got him something he has always wanted - a pair of overalls to work in the garden! The way I see it he is using them to plan fruits and flowers!
I think that is sweat rolling down his cheek....
ext month the traditional gift is wood.... I am going to be a bit more prepared for that!
our radishes are up!
um this weekend was p-nutty busy! I had two session this weekend and while I haven't even gotten to the pictures yet I do plan on finishing up the couples session tonight - so I promise something on that tomorrow.
When I got home Saturday nightI actually went out to work in the garden. This is one of those areas where not having cable/TV comes in handy. If there had been a TV in my house on Saturday then I would have come home dog tired from the session and plopped down in front of the couch for a few minutes of mindlessness. But since one wasn't there I went home, put on my overalls and Matt and I went outside to work. I planted 2 rows of peas, a row of beets, a row of radishes and two rows of lettuce. I told Matty that by May 24th we can have a lettuce and radish salad. He told me that the dates where usually general so it would be around then but I held fast to the timelines listed on the back of the salad package.
I felt good after doing that work, Matt cooked us up some yummy veggies and then we had Martel's ice cream. It was a seriously perfect day all the way around.
Sunday was dinner at his grandparents where I also learned out to play 83 - its a card game. And here is what I learned. Matt has the same demeanor/face at work that he has in competative games - I am not going to say its my favorite face - he gets all serious and rolls his eyes alot and is not tolerant of mistakes. Geez, I was just learning how to play the game but when I played a card that he wasn't happy with his face told me so!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know - playing games with him isn't as much fun as I thought. I am going to bust out Clue the next time he is over and see how that goes:)
