I received a wonderful gift from another Word Press blogger last week. Jimmy Cracked Corn sent me a package of rare (heirloom) Cabin Tomatoes. He is on a mission to keep this variety alive and well.
I am so grateful that he sent me this and will do my best to grow and save these seeds. I hope to pass our seeds on to several other gardeners we know. We will try our best to keep this going and keep tabs on them. 
He even made his own packages!
Thanks, Jimmy! We’ll keep you posted.
What a day! Come home from work. Meat is cooking, go out pick beans, husband picks peppers, leave the tomatoes! Clean beans, steam them, get dinner ready. Eat, have coffee. Sweep floors, tidy up, do dishes, charge batteries, take some pictures. Wash peppers, cut , clean, flash freeze them. Sweep up seeds. More coffee. Do more dishes. Post on both blogs.
Next…run bath, have bath, do laundry, then pray I am not too tired to start a new craft project! Should pick ripe tomatoes but forget it…I am soooo over fresh tomatoes! LOL!
Oh, our last surviving pumpkin is no longer on the vine. I could cry. Will I ever succeed in growing them? Next year this will be top on the list. I will grow BIG pumpkins!
Just look at that tiny little thing! 
On a lighter note, I did make a tomato sauce last week for our spinach filled fresh pasta. It was so good. I just made it up myself and wrote down what I did. I’ll post the recipe later.
But look…
I made that!
Happy gardening!
It was good too!
This watermelon fell off the vine. It was a tasty little thing though. We only had three. The other one is toast. All our hope for one decent sized melon rests with the one in the greenhouse.
I read about people taking the seeds out when they freeze tomatoes for sauces. Oops! I didn’t. I will be making a real sauce with herbs and such with the next few batches. I have bags of this and beans in the freezer.
My husband wanted sliced tomatoes for brushetta/omelets in the winter.
More and more chilli peppers everyday! That is from one plant.
Finally getting some cherry tomatoes from a plant that grew back from last year.
A red pepper. We are hoping they start turning now. Wait until I take photos of our pepper plants. I don’t know what I will do with them all.
Last but not least, we recently celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary and I made the tasty little chocolate/peanut butter chip cheesecakes. I changed it up a bit from the recipe. It’s from a cookbook I have. Are we allowed to share recipes from a cookbook? Or is there some copyright issues with doing that? I’d love to share it because they were so good!
Edit: (I forgot to add the picture before I pushed the publish button)
I turned 41 since I last posted. So I am older and wiser this week. 
Or maybe not…
Happy gardening!
I am running out of clever titles.
Some of our latest goodies:
We have bags of frozen beans and there are still plenty more to come! We have also been able to share a few bags too!
You win some, you lose some:
Not a problem. We have given over fifty away. Have loads in the house waiting to become various sauces. And there are still an abundance in the garden.
Peppers. We have so many. Too many!
I picked up that clay pot at the end of a driveway next to where I was working last week! There was a hole at the back but the broken piece was set inside. Lucky me!
This lily is 8 1/2 inches across! What a beauty!
Happy Gardening!
Having a hectic few weeks right now. I know I owe e-mails and am behind in reading and posting. Hoping things will be normal by Tuesday. Then I have to catch up on everything.
Been eating loads of tomatoes from the garden. YAY!
Will have plenty of pictures and posts when I get back.
Happy gardening!
I wish I could remember where I got this from. I do recall being so shocked about the comment when I read it, I snipped it. What I didn’t do was save where it was from.
I wanted to find out just where this person was from:
I think the person is from Venezuela after a bit of snooping around.
Here is another interesting quote from a newspaper article you can read in full here.
“Venezuela’s urban agriculture program has seen urban communal and family based food gardens developing rapidly over the last two years, to a current total of 19,000. The program provides free training, information, seeds, and other materials, in order to encourage healthy and environmentally friendly food production and food sovereignty.”
Seriously? Can you imagine that here?
Iceland forgives mortgage debt of their citizens instead of bailing out banks. Read it here.
Here’s hoping these government trends spread far and wide!
I can! I can see our tomatoes turning. It feels like Christmas. My heart is full of joy!
Our cucumber plant didn’t croak. There are two:
Still don’t know where these came from but they are doing great!
There is a website devoted to Chili Peppers called The Chili Man. It has a huge data base, seed exchange and probably everything else you ever wanted to know about them.
A sunflower decided to grow in the middle of our tomatoes. A lovely addition:
We thought a raccoon was at our tomatoes but when I went out last night I saw a skunk! Are they in season? I wish!
Happy Gardening!
That’s me! It certainly was true this week-end. We went to my husband’s, stepfather’s family reunion yesterday. We made a promise that we would try to remain close with this family after my husband’s mom passed away. They are some of the nicest people I have ever met and we didn’t want to lose contact with them as the years pass by.
I only know about half of them but even when I walk up to someone I don’t know well, they treat me like family. Amazing, wonderful people!
The event was up north in the country at a family members home. After we had said our greetings and visited for a while, my husband and I decided to take a short walk down the dirt road to see the area. We didn’t get far. Two houses down I spotted a man about my husband’s age tending his front yard vegetable garden. It was quite a fair size, with huge plants, everything looked so healthy and full.
Being me, I walked over to tell him what a lovely garden he had. 40 minutes later we were still there talking with him! He is taking a course in horticulture and gave us a bunch of handy tips. Like using crushed aspirin and water on your plants to promote plant growth, the importance of using molasses (which we do), and that iron is the most over-looked thing in many people’s garden.
By looking at his success I would have to admit this guy knows his stuff. I just wish I had brought my camera on our walk! His cherry tomatoes were so packed full they looked like bunches of grapes! Everything was loaded! This guy was so interesting and helpful, we ended up giving him our address (he wants to come see our green house), he invited us back because he has a friend who would gladly give us hen droppings. That man (the hen poo guy) lives off-grid and he wants us to meet him, he said his gardens are amazing!
We thought we had better get back to the reunion, so back we go, two large zucchini in hand. You should have seen the looks on everyone’s face when we came back with them. LOL!
You will notice there are two types of zucchini in that photo. We had started out with two green zucchini but we stopped off at my middle sisters on the way home. She had grown what she thought was regular zucchini this year and ended up getting these massive light green ones that grow in all sorts of curls and bends. She wanted to trade my green one for one of hers.
When I say massive, I don’t use the term lightly. Here I am with it:
This was not the largest one! I looked it up when we got home and think it is called Trombocino.
From what I read it is like a cross of zucchini and butternut squash. The good thing is when cooked, it stays firmer than a zucchini. Can’t wait to try it! The other one will be grated for zucchini bread. Mmmm…yummy!
Happy Gardening!
UPDATE:
After cutting the one from my sisters’ garden I realized it couldn’t be a Trombocino. The seeds from that would have been only at the base. I think the next best guess would be a Cucuzzia Squash.
I just threw it in the oven using this recipe. Kind of like scalloped potatoes minus the potato.
We had rain yesterday. For all of five minutes. It came fast and furious, tore the netting from our tent gazebo. Oh well, you get what you pay for! Next year we will build a proper one. Those things are made too cheap!
On a good note: We have beans!
We ended up giving a bunch of green tomatoes to some people on the corner. She loves fried green tomatoes and ours just won’t ripen! I think it has been too hot and they have just shut down. That or Mother Nature is playing games on me, knowing how much I have been craving them.
Happy Gardening!
