Parkallen Gothic
Last Saturday, Krista and I planted our first garden together, together with our friends Mike a.k.a. "T-Bone"and amy. (Here's us pictured attempting to duplicate the famous Grant Wood picture of the farmer and his wife). After we got out the majority of the "quack-grass," (the bane of a gardener's existence), we put in corn, Kennebec and Russet potatos, butternut squash, onions, green beans, carrots, beets, herbs, garlic - and all sorts of other excellent comestibles. A nice addition to the raspberries already at the back. Oh yeah, we also planted a Saskatoon bush! (Probably won't get fruit this year) But the rest of the garden will be looking pretty good by July. All our friends are welcome to come on by sometime... and help us weed! Maybe we'll give you a beet or something.
Labels: daily life
posted by Matthew Francis at Thursday, May 25, 2006
10 Comments:
I'd love a beet.
Looks good.
A beet? So I can make perfume?
Also, tell T-Bone he needs a haircut. Actually, don't. Let's see how long it gets until he starts looking like McEnroe.
i remember when mom would sit you at the side of the garden in Trenton and you'd eat handfulls of soil. you've come a long way baby.
i'm liking mike's fro. makes him look a bit islandy...
hey john.
is mike ssssweeping? your garden.
let us know if the innovative techniques pay off.
i think i learnt in art history that the photo is of a man and his much younger sister...or even daughter. granted this class was a mid-afternoon sleepy time class that caused many to fall asleep but i am almost certain it isn't his wife...and that part of the point was that she looked way older than she was.
great garden by the way! my new place has a balcony and i am excited about planting some flower pots!!
Mimi, your welcome to beets anytime you're in the neighbourhood. If you let us know we'll cook up a fine summer borsht. Krista's baba has a good recipe. Thanks for the tip, Muryn. I new I should have paid more attention in art history. Johnnie-O, thanks for dropping by with those soul classics. T-Bone totally looks McEnroe-ish. And KP... bring on the manure. Just what the doctor ordered. Now, where can I find some good tasty soil?
Oh yeah, Angus is actually raking quack grass out of the garden, though it does look like sweeping. "Hurray hard, T-Bone! Hurray hard!"
You should see my current collection of "Hey Soul Classics". But you can't borrow it. You have to buy your own.
Wow - what a garden! Here we settle for lettuce, green onions, radishes and peas...
I do have a few tomatoe plants in pots and one Hungarian hot pepper plant... but at the rate of sunshine we are getting ... I am not so sure how these will do...
my lettuce is coming along nicely.
Way to go Krista and hairy guy, have fun canning, freezing, blanching, and putting foods by for the winter months......my kids are excited about our garden......till they get to weed it will likely continue!
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