Monday, February 20, 2012

Free Crappy Portrait

Aaaaaages ago I sent in our photo to Free Crappy Portraits and requested one of our very own. So long ago now I totally forgot about it, until today. Not only have they supplied us with an AWESOME Free Crappy Portrait, thoroughly identifying us and poor Mavis' story, but they put us on their website! How cool is that?!

I know!

Here is our (awesome) crappy portrait - thanks sooooo much Nick P. You did good.




Friday, January 20, 2012

Home Grown Corn

Who doesn't like corn on the cob?


I hear you stroll through the garden to pick the corn and run back to cook it. The minute it's picked the sugars start to turn to starch and it begins to lose it's sweetness.


Well, this season we grew some of the sweetest, juiciest, most delicious ears we've ever tasted! Don't think we could go back to store bought ears after eating it straight from the stalk! You should try it some time.


Watching it being devoured like this makes it look even more delectable, don't you think? 




  

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

To Pinch Or Not To Pinch? Conclusion

At the beginning of the summer we planted two yellow pear cherry tom seedlings and did a garden experiment with them:
  1. One plant we pinched out the shoots
  2. The other we did not
(bountiful bushes)  

The conclusion we have come to is that pinching made no real difference to the yield. The fruit was just as tasty and abundant for both plants.

(Pinched & Pruned)
  
However, the un-pinched plant's fruit was just much harder to get to!

(The Monster)

So purely for manageability (and pleasurable garden aesthetics), we have continued to pinch all our toms this season, and so far we're having a bumper crop! Yum!