Twiggybet's Blog
Twiggybet's Blog
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Jul 15, 2007 | 9:17 PM PST
Well, the weather here has been pretty dry. All the grass is pretty brown. This means it isn't growing, so my husband gets off easy in that he doesn't have to mow the lawn. We have city water, and our community has a partial watering ban in place. We are allowed to water every other day (according to the house address...even numbered houses get to water on even numbered calendar days, odd numbered houses on the odd number calendar days.)I make sure to water the garden on our allowed days, but my husband doesn't want to water lawn. This would be fine by me except that we use the grass clippings to mulch in between our rows in the garden. The mulch layers are getting pretty thin now, and the weeds are going crazy! I find myself spending more time than I'd like on weed control lately. But this is going to change very soon; the weather forcast is calling for stormy weather for the next 3 days. I'll be happy to get more grass clipping for mulch, but I don't know how happy hubby will be to cut the lawn again!
Jul 12, 2007 | 12:02 AM PST
7-11-07
Today we had absolutely beautiful weather to be out and about in the garden. It had been very hot and humid the last couple of days, but we got a break from that today. It wasn't too hot, we had a nice breeze and a lot less humidity. Too bad I had other errands to do, or I would have spent more time in the garden. Our zuchini is coming in faster than we can eat it (but isn't that typical of zuchini????). So far I have made zuchini bread, zuchini pancakes, sauted zuchini, and I plan to make zuchini lasagna and zuchini boats in the next day or two. Any more ideas, anyone? I really look forward to it every year, then we get a glut of it and my family gets tired of eating it. I have yet to find a recipe for canning the stuff, though I have froze some before. Somehow it just doesn't seem the same once you freeze it, though. (i'm not complaining, but my family soon will be!)
I posted some pictures of the colorful carrots we grew last year. Hopefully, we will soon be getting the ones I planted this year. We have green beans coming in now, so I know the canning season has arrived and I will be very busy putting those up very soon here.
