Friday, July 15, 2011 0 comments By: seasonsofgrowth

flowers and fruits

Hello all...
its been a crazy long time.... turns out erik and i are both quite terrible at keeping this updated!

Our garden is in full swing. Most of what we have planted is now blooming.... which is real exciting.
bush bean blooms...

blooming pumpkins....

can't remember what these are but they are lovely :D

climbing peas...

We have been spending a lot of time weeding the past couple weeks.... And our hard work is about to really pay off.. Our squash patch (which was almost completely covered in  tall weeds) is about to begin to produce. I am quite sure we are going to have zuchinni coming out of our ears... 

straight neck yellow summer squash...

cocozelle summer squash...
The best surprise was the first taste of podded peas today... Erik and I each ate one delicious pod. yum. fresh. delicious.
so exciting.
Erik was especially overjoyed by the peas.
pea.
In addition to the peas we cut our first greens today.... Lovely swiss chard anyone??? we have three shopping bags full of that and also one bag of spinach.... tasty.


swiss chard...


spinach...
Danko tomatoes...

onions....

Cherry tomatoes...
There are soon to be many other wonderful things for the eatin.

In other news our goats have gone through a few bouts of poor health. We are actually sad to confess that our beloved little Molly has died. Erik did a lot of research and ended up diagnosing the problem as coccidiosis, and internal parasite that commonly occurs in goats under four months of age.
The treatment is tablets of a sulfur-based drug for 5-7 days. We just finished the 7th day of shoving pills down their troats... and we think that we licked the nasty bugger in the butt...
We've also identified that due to the stinky parasite, Ruby and Billy are anemic. Which means they now require daily shots of vitamin B12 and loose minerals for iron deficiency until they get totally healed.
Erik's new books...
I don't have much else to add right now.... Thanks for checking up on us.

much love,
j. rae.