crazy cucumbers

For the last few weeks, I thought 4-5 cucumbers every two days or so was a lot.

I picked 4-5 at lunch on Tuesday. Last night, I picked 12.

That's right. TWELVE cucumbers in 2.5 days. Whoa.

Yurt Painting Party

We have finished one wall of the yurt, and should be finished with the other one by next weekend. We would like to host a get-together potluck, jam session, and yurt painting party. That way we can have cool personalized "khana" (walls) with the stamps of friends on them! Location is TBD, might be in the garden, or might be at the apartment. We'll see. Party will probably be a Saturday night.

Fire Poi Lessons

So I'm considering experimenting with teaching poi. It'd be nice to know if anyone or how many people might be interested. Then I could start picking up supplies and start playing with it. Maybe I could start with a test group that would just pay for supplies and then start charging a little bit for lessons/exercise stuff. And then it would be awesome to start up my own little troupe. That would be really hot. haha.

Midwest Burns

Interfuse already happened in early May, but HullaballU is a one night event that occurs in October. I think HullaballU might be members only, though, and maybe it might be better to just plan for next year's Interfuse.

Doesn't look too far away though: Booneville, MS

I may look for other burns close by, but I think this one and maybe Transformus are the closest.

Flowers

flowers 6/18/07 10:00 PM

Garden Dinner

Also-- Yummy yummy stirfry: I got a really good sauce recipe from Real Simple magazine at work today. It consists of soy sauce (we used a mixture of Bragg's and regular soy), a couple tablespoons of lemon juice, lots of minced garlic, some sugar, and a handful of chopped herbs-- basil and cilantro (we also added half a jalopeno, some lemon thyme, and some lemon balm).

Along with some storebought bell peppers, chicken, and onions, we were able to use squash, zucchini, and our entire harvest of sugar snaps (2 pods) fresh from the garden in the meal. We also grew the herbs and the peppers! Yum!

Wind Damage

We had a bit of wind damage last night... lost several large branches off our oversized tomato plants. Michael went in this morning and wrapped the entire garden in twine to help support the heavy branches. It looks a little like what might happen if a careless spider got bored during its lunch preparations!

Things to Remember for Next Year

-Don't construct bed and sow seeds during manic phase

-Label plants

-Consider wagon-wheel shaped herb bed

-Zucchini and squash grow BIG

-Maybe we don't need to plant lots of cucumbers in every bed

-Huns' idea: Plant all tall veggies around fence line. Divide interior space into separate beds according to vegetable.

Garden of Eatin'

Our tomato plants now measure at least 6 feet tall, and they seem to be growing taller everyday. The harvest is slowly cranking up; we got about 8 or 10 squash from our squash plant, and as many greens as we could eat from our lettuce/mesclun/arugula/etc. bed. That stuff is starting to peter out as the tomatoes get round and red, and as more and more yellow blooms appear on the cucumbers.

Note to self: Don't plant potatoes and tomatoes in the same bed.