Garden Tour 12-31-08

December 28 Tomatoes

We are enjoying our roma tomatoes, freshly picked in late December. They are very delicious. I keep them on the patio at night with a light on them and put them in the sunshine during the day if it's not too cold.

They have much more flavor than sweat-shop tomatoes.

The plants continue to have flowers even now so we are hopeful to have even more this winter.

First Frost Dec 27 2008

We had our first heavy freeze last night. All our buckets of water had a thick layer of ice on them. Here are my wild onions all covered with ice.

I covered the peas with a sheet and the garden with straw. They all looked fine this morning. The broccoli loves the ice so I left it uncovered.

Garden Dec 19 2008

The garden is coming along nicely. I put the shovel in the picture to show scale but then put my finger in the picture too!

The tallest peas (on the left, against the wall) were planted several weeks before the peas on the right. This should extend the harvest nicely.

The rows to the right were also planted later than the ones on the left, but the third row from the left are onions which are doing nicely. I will probably let them all grow for bulb onions rather than greens.

Peas Flowering

Baby Broccoli

My broccoli is beginning to produce!

Dew on Wheat Grass

Nature is a revelation of God;

Art a revelation of man.

-- Longfellow

December Sky from My Yard

December 1, 2008

The crescent moon along with Venus and Jupiter. I took this photo from my yard.

That's Venus on the left and Jupiter on the right.

Jupiter is 540 million miles away from Earth.

Venus is 94 million miles away.

The next time we will see this trio will be in the year 2052.