This was last night's harvest...
The biggest one is AS LONG AS MY ARM!!
These are from tonight. For reference, that knife is 12" long. 😳
I'm going to learn a whole bunch of new ways to cook zucchini and then I'll go around talking about my methods like Bubba from Forest Gump talking about shrimp. "You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Zucchini-kabobs, zucchini creole, zucchini gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple zucchini, lemon zucchini, coconut zucchini, pepper zucchini, zucchini soup, zucchini stew, zucchini salad, zucchini and potatoes, zucchini burger, zucchini sandwich. That- that's about it."
In other Garden News, we have some tomatoes starting! They weren't easy to find, it's a tomato jungle in there. I've started taking notes on garden do's and don'ts for next year's garden and high on the list, after NEVER PLANT MORE THAN ONE ZUCCHINI, is space the tomatoes further apart and plant all the same kind together 😜. That was an accident, when I moved the seedlings from their egg cartons I forgot to label them and when I later moved them outside, they looked pretty much alike. Well, now they don't and I'm still not sure which is which until they all get tomatoes on them but one type is much taller than the others. As you can see in the second picture, the plants underneath are producing so I guess the taller ones aren't stunting their growth. I worried once the tomato plants started getting taller that they would produce a shadow over the lettuce and stunt it but no worries there. I'm pretty sure lettuce would grow on a rock, along with zucchini. I counted the lettuce plants tonight to make a note and there are 25. TWENTY-FIVE! Who needs 25 lettuce plants?! Oh well, that allowed enough for us and the rabbits for the first harvest. The new net seems to be keeping them out so far.
However, they are not staying away from my Mexican sunflower in my abandoned flower bed behind the building. Phil(ip) took Sansa out to pee and sent me this pic. I wasn't really mad at it because it was super hot out. I just wish it would help weed eat a little in exchange for it's room and board. Oh, by the way, I took down the bunny death trap around the peppers and put up a net. I forgot to take a pic but I swear I did. The forks are staying in the fairy garden though. I should just take them out because they don't seem to be working anyway. Every day I find new chunks missing from my succulents 😠.
The sunflower finally bloomed! I noticed it Friday night started tracking it's progress.
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So, early this afternoon, I was transplanting my herbs into some repurposed salsa jars (we eat lots of salsa, apparently. I had saved like 10 jars) and also some plants I got on clearance at Lowe's. Phil(ip) was helping me (if you call sitting at the picnic table and watching me do it, helping) and we both really liked the end result--blue dish with rocks and succulent below. He asked me where I was going to put it and I said I wasn't sure because it would do better outside but there wasn't a good place for it. He said, "you need a table," and I said, "ok, let's build one," and he started looking for designs and four hours later this appeared:
Top, with inspirational succulent centerpiece
Base, with Sansa helper in the background
He found a picture that he liked but it didn't have plans so we decided on some measurements and then he put all those math classes he has taken recently to work and calculated all the cuts and angles. So if anyone is interested in plans for a 34" x 18" round table, you can have them if you promise to also take 5 zucchinis 😜.
After we were finished building Phil(ip) said, "I don't even know how this happened, I didn't plan on doing this today." It was all because my plant needed a place to live outside 😏.
Here's the finished setup (minus staining, of course):
We've built this entire set for less than $200!
We, and by we I mean Phil(ip), installed an anti-sag bolt thing on the gate. If you've ever wondered if those actually work, I'm here to tell ya, they do. They're pretty awesome. This one was only like $8 bucks on Amazon. Totally worth it. However, the thing that holds the two parts together (there I go again with my technical terms. Hope I didn't confuse anyone) was stripped so I got a new one at Ace Hardware for $1.39. See, I helped! 😉
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