Yesterday-side garden

Yesterday, I managed to work the side bed of the main garden enough to get it into shape for planting...this wasn't easy without a tiller. I did it shovel and rake style. I put down some organic garden soil and planted snow peas, cabbage and beets in the "new" bed. If anything doesn't come up, I'll put in some more snow peas probably... my cabbage seeds are a couple of years old, so I'm not holding my breath that they will germinate. I already have a few cabbage plants in my small bed, along with broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, tomatoes, and cucumbers(all plants). I added some radishes, turnips, cauliflower, and snap peas in seed form yesterday there.
I noticed spinach, lettuce, cilantro, carrots, and basil are coming up in various containers on the patio. The onion sets look alright, the eggplant are blooming profusely. Of course, the oregano and garlic chives look fine, as does the old-timer, rosemary.
I have two more beds I can play with if I get time for more veggies, but they will be a lot of work without a tiller. I still need to get my flowerbed in order and clean up the pots around the house. The flowerbed will be full of pansies and violas later...the pansies haven't started showing up at the nurseries yet, anyway. The bright colors always make me feel better on cool winter days. I think my favorite part is choosing the colors to plant.
Today is Farmer's Market day. I hope to find plenty of veggies to put me in the mood for more garden work. I want the best fall garden ever, perhaps it will come.

Neglect

I've neglected my garden because I've been working on getting bread in stores every spare moment. Hopefully it will be fine, I only missed watering yesterday and now today because there is a 100% chance of rain early tomorrow morning. Hurricane Ike is on its way and now, I am as prepared as I am going to be. I didn't need anything really since I am a grocery pack-rat. I should've gotten milk, but I didn't have time to get to the farm(I'm not out anyway).
I sincerely doubt that there will be a Farmer's Market. That is sad, but everything will be okay, I might need to go to the Farm Patch to pick up the good stuff to fill in.
It has been a very long day. Good night.

Garden Update

I managed to get some seeding done, spinach, lettuce, some herbs, onions and carrots- I hope it all grows. I still have more to do. I had my brother weedeat my most neglected garden plot and I watered it down really well. My tillers are officially both broken, so I guess I will have to turn it all by shovel if I want that done soon. He planted my peach tree and put down mulch around the other fruit trees- pomagranite, apple, pears, figs and peach trees, maybe a plum tree, but I can't remember for sure.
Perhaps if I take really good care of them all over the winter, I will get some fruit next year. I do want to get some strawberries in the ground this fall...I love strawberries.

Too Busy

I've been so busy on the routes that I still haven't made it by BNF. Fortunately, HEB has had kombucha the past two mornings to get me through my morning addiction(at over 50 cents more a bottle-yikes). I even thanked the Nature's Harvest manager. He just smiled, knowing that he hadn't done anything, but could at present take credit anyway.
I have managed to water all of my new plantings, so I still have high hopes of broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic chives and oregano. The kumquats are beginning to turn orange ever so slightly, so it won't be too much longer. I still need to get more planting done, even as I wait for a CSA share from Long Bean farm, which should be end of this month.
I need to get to the Cathy's farm for milk, which is more difficult because Cathy now has a part-time job as a computer programmer at a print shop. I think that working will do her a world of good, but I miss being able to call her early to decipher her plans for the afternoon. Well, as long as I can take care of it before I have to buy milk from the store--*yuck*, it should be alright. Perhaps I could get a little extra to make some cheese.

Fall Garden

I decided that I wanted a small fall garden, rain willing, it may survive. I bought plants--some broccoli, tomatoes and what I think are cucumbers(canteloupe plants look pretty similar and it had no tag). I added some oregano and garlic chives to my rosemary for herbs. I recently bought a kumquat tree(seedless, which may work better when it comes to eating the little buggers) and I have a peach tree that needs to get into the ground before winter. All of my trees need some mulch to keep the mower from getting too close.
I want some pansies up front in my almost completely dried up flower bed, plus some strawberries to plant soon so I will have strawberries this Spring. I need some snow peas and peas, lettuce and spinach to round everything off. Hopefully I can refrain from killing everything this season. Fall is usually pretty good for me. I'll check my seed stash and see what I can come up with, perhaps there is some inspiration in there somewhere. Something so simple as a seed that grows into something so great may be enough to inspire me.

Farmer's Market

Well, I managed to get to the Farmer's Market today. I saw Heather and Karen from Yadi's milk group which felt a bit like deja vu without essential cause, except to say I met Heather rather briefly yesterday, for the first time in person. Karen, I have known much longer, not just from the milk drops, but also because we happened to show up to pick tomatoes at Gendron Tomatoes the season before last. She will forever remember me as the crazy white girl who ate a very hot pepper sans water (they dared me) while picking a bounty of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and squash that crazy Saturday morning...and I will forever remember her as the one who wore a two piece swimsuit to pick veggies. I prefer more cover-up, but I can pick veggies all day in high sun if I have the time, the veggies and plenty of water.
I scored lots of great stuff at the market; salsa, chocolate sour cream bread, garlic chives, yellow squash, green beans, parsley, red potatoes, and 2 cucumbers. After finishing my route for the day, I put my steamer to use on a very tasty lunch. Now perhaps I can get to BNF before they close...