Independance Days Update
Jun. 23rd, 2008 12:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenHaven't done one of these in a few weeks... part of one of the latest 'challenges' from Sharon Astyk/Casaubon's Book.
Planted: Tomatoes, more Bloody Butcher corn, lemon verbena, hyssop, creeping time. Transplanted a few sunflowers - they don't generally transplant well, but since I had to thin them anyway, might as well try.
Harvested: A few strawberries. Also yarrow, horsetail, red clover flowers, mullein, tall cinquefoil (medicinals).
[EDIT] Also got grass and accompanying bugs and fed them to the chickens.
Preserved: Hung up herbs to dry.
Prepped: L (last week) moved the newest batch of dandelion wine from the large cooking pot into a bottle with a waterlock.
Managed: (last week) Inventoried dried fruits and nuts and acquired more for the pantry. I don't excel at drying cranberries, and I'd rather buy some right now than see if I can turn more food into little dry hard things :p Surveyed freezer contents and have been defrosting and using some of the older stuff (which still tastes pretty good, yay!).
Also mulched more.
Cooked something new: Yes and no. Nothing with a named recipe, just having fun seeing what we have that sounds like it'll taste good together.
Reduced Waste: Not exactly. Chaff is kind of unavoidable in hay storage. Used a bunch of it in the garden, some around plants, some to get the potatoes to grow taller and form more tubers, some to cover ground that isn't getting planted just yet but it keeps the dirt from blowing away on dry days (which helps keep CO2 levels down, btw).
Learned a new skill: Not this time around, unless you count learning that feeding the chickens so far means that they don't peck at your feet.
Planted: Tomatoes, more Bloody Butcher corn, lemon verbena, hyssop, creeping time. Transplanted a few sunflowers - they don't generally transplant well, but since I had to thin them anyway, might as well try.
Harvested: A few strawberries. Also yarrow, horsetail, red clover flowers, mullein, tall cinquefoil (medicinals).
[EDIT] Also got grass and accompanying bugs and fed them to the chickens.
Preserved: Hung up herbs to dry.
Prepped: L (last week) moved the newest batch of dandelion wine from the large cooking pot into a bottle with a waterlock.
Managed: (last week) Inventoried dried fruits and nuts and acquired more for the pantry. I don't excel at drying cranberries, and I'd rather buy some right now than see if I can turn more food into little dry hard things :p Surveyed freezer contents and have been defrosting and using some of the older stuff (which still tastes pretty good, yay!).
Also mulched more.
Cooked something new: Yes and no. Nothing with a named recipe, just having fun seeing what we have that sounds like it'll taste good together.
Reduced Waste: Not exactly. Chaff is kind of unavoidable in hay storage. Used a bunch of it in the garden, some around plants, some to get the potatoes to grow taller and form more tubers, some to cover ground that isn't getting planted just yet but it keeps the dirt from blowing away on dry days (which helps keep CO2 levels down, btw).
Learned a new skill: Not this time around, unless you count learning that feeding the chickens so far means that they don't peck at your feet.
