I think I can safely get back into this now and feel that I am actually achieving something!
Plant something: I have some seedlings waiting ready to go into the garden - cauliflowers and leeks, and my St Johns Wort and German Chamomile seeds have finally sprouted!
Harvest something: Rhubarb, strawberries, plums, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, baby carrots and fresh herbs.
Preserve something: I am currently drying some sweet violet leaves foraged from around the cracks and hidden areas of my garden.
Eat the food: Rhubarb was turned into a pudding this evening. Plums, peas, and strawberries are being plucked and eaten before even getting back in the house. Although I don't often try new recipes, I certainly sub in whatever vegetables I have on hand for cooking into saucy type meals.
Build Community Food Systems: Have been telling all my friends about our cool bean and pea teepee and encouraging them to do the same - even if just for the kids to be in touch with nature and having time to sit and enjoy the outdoors in a pleasant little environment.
I have spotted some Borage flowers peeking through, feverfew is now in full flower, calendula flowers are going crazy but I'm going to leave them to all go to seed and hope to have masses next year (from my reading with annuals, if you want them to continue to reproduce, it is best to only harvest 1/3 of them and allow the rest to go to seed). My potatoes are in full flower as well and eagerly watching for my garlic to start to die back in the coming weeks/months.
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This is an extremely pleasant find! We started http://bigmyrtle.blogspot.com/ earlier this year, after we decided we weren't going to wait for retirement to start gardening the way our grandparents did, and we certainly weren't going to wait until we had enough land, because we *have* enough, it's just that most people wouldn't think so, and what do most people know about it, anyway? (Puff, puff, puff!) We can't free-range our chickens (ordinances, raccoons and hawks, in that order), but we CAN attempt to produce more from an urban plot of land than we've been led to expect, and we're going to do it!
Happy farming!
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