The Garden I

The First Photo is of various Amaranth growing and I do need to thin some out but as you can see they are already flowering.

The Next Two Photos are of my Greek Wild Peas, not first photo is of the pods on some plants and are getting quite large, the other is of some plants in another patch in flower stage, notice how beautiful the colors are if you compare them to most of your " common pea" varieties, they make great ornaments as well.

The Last photo is of a pumpkin that has really taken off in he heat it is about the size of a golf ball and is getting large very fast.....

The Garden II

the First photo is of my successful graft of a slower growing top to a faster growing rootstock, although it is hard to tell in the photo but the grafted cacti was smaller than a dime when first grafted back on May 30th and now it is larger than a quarter, thus it has grown about 2 years growth in just 2 months! !

The Second Photo is of an Intoxicated Bumble Bee who decided to just " sleep it off " during the night rather than risk Drinking and Flying....

The Last photo is of my Achora vine flowering and I can't wait for the fruits... this plant has grown about a foot a day recently with the heat....

Saturday July 19th I

Ok this post was a bit late...

The 1st photo is my salad mix harvested from my gardens comprising of... lettuce mix, amaranth leaves from a mix of strains, dill, nasturtium leaves, violet petals, radish flowers and seed pods, kale leaves, Egyptian walking onion stems and peppercini peppers I sprinkled rye cracker and cheese on top with chopped up pepperoni .

the following four photos are some of my many "bread seed" poppies I have in my collection,

The last two photos are of a way to grow tomatoes as well as a way to save space, I came across this great invention several years ago in some garden magazine, now since then you found some inventor who started selling panted " growing bags" for everything from flowers and strawberries to tomato plants, although the grow bags are more " cosmetic " and pleasing to the eye than a bucket, however I still prefer this method as I can get the buckets for free and grow other crops on top as pictured here,,, I have Dill, Amaranth, Basil, and a Cabbage plant, in previous years I have successfully grown Zucchini Squash, Cucumbers, Broccoli, Beans, Carrots, as well as various flowers and vines.

Saturday July 19th 2008 Part II

1st photo is of one of my varieties of wild Petunias from South America that grew from some seeds that fell to the ground from Last year,

The 2nd photo is of squash/pumpkins,cukes, and melons that are not enjoying the cold nights at all and are now just starting to take off, now these were started indoors in pots, I have some others I planted from direct seed in the ground without the black mulch and are three times this size.

3rd photo is of my Peppercini Peppers that are ready for harvesting again, nothe the orange one that is over ripe that will serve as seed for future plantings.

4th photo is of the maiz patch of black seeded popcorn with varigated leaves. This Year the varigation is not as distinct as last year.

5th photo is a better shot of the leaves of the maiz, note the poppies and a few stray "wormwood" plants keeping the maiz company.

6th photo it's time to trim the Thyme again.

7th photo is of Tagetes Lucida and that too is due for some trimming.

Garden Update July 19 08 Part III

The first Photo is of my Sword bean, a variety of japanese Morning Glory, Chocolate Runner Bean, and Achora vine . Normally these would be two to three times the size they are now.

The Second photo is the flower of my " Wild Greek Pea" Notice what such beautiful colors these peas have when you compare them to your typical garden pea, so not only do you get peas for soup but also a beautiful ornamental, they are enjoying the cool nights and not so hot days this season.

The Third Photo is of a Black Runner Bean flowering another grea garden crop that makes a beautiful ornamental as well as great for attracting humming birds and bees.

Here is a photo of some of my "bread seed" poppies I planted the wrong mix this year and only have three varieties growing out of my collecion of about 15 I really miss the whites and violets, as you can see most have already bloomed I have a photo of a beautiful graden of reds and pinks but I misplaced my digital camera so I had to use the video camera for this post.

Here are some fresh photos of some of what I planted this year, however many of my plantings are very slow this year due to first a wec cold pring and the moth of July has not been very hot as previous years especially at night as the temps have been dipping down into the very low 60's as well as many nights in the 50's, now this is great if you are growing peas, broccoli,cabbage etc, but for squash,pumpkins,melons beans especially the pole varities and maiz then warm nights are very important. However the Rain Gods have been generous this month by dratmatically cutting down on my watering this past month,

The Garden

Well unfortunatly yours truly lost many a picture that were not burned to disk before both my memory stick and hard drive fried, so now I must start from scratch and will have some new pictures soon to post, I even lost all my photos and video I shot and uploaded on " how to graft a cactus" as I have had 50/50 success so far in my grafting trials, however I shall soon post the results of those projects and will soon partake on experiementing with some other varieties.

Damn those Mosquitos

Last year was on the dry side but this year has been very wet and the fucking mosquitos are the size of ravens this year and out for blood, so if youré a vampyre, you have some competition this season...... James forced me to watch Office Space(the Bastage) this afternoon after his story about wannabe gangbangers,,,,,good thing they are just wannabe's as I just finished working on a house of some wannabe native mob fucks who were evicted because they shot up the neighbors house just because she told them to "go fuck off"and leave her cousin alone....so yeah this is the real thing here...no respect for life or property...but anyhow I did go back after the movie and finish transplanting those seedlings in an eariler photo,,, and managed to keep the pricks to a minimum this time, good thing Trichocereus Pachanoi and T. Peruviana are easy to work with while young, but once the peruvianas get older then watch out as they have very long sharp spines that hurt like hell. I also transplanted some Amaranth seedlings, some dill and some of my heirloom bean seeds, now its almost time for bed as I am beat......but never too tired to rock out for a while and I have 3 cd's that came in the mail today to review and if they cut the mustard to make the playlist for Radio Clandestino.

Saturday Gardening the Final Chapter

Here I have some varigated maize that also produced a black seeded popcorn or you could say a black seeded popcorn that happens to produce varigated leaves on the plants, a very beautiful plant to grow as just an ornamental besides for fresh popcorn. The other picture is of my greens mix consisting of various lettuces,spinach,kales and radishes some for me and my son some for his pet rabbit the fertilizer producer for the plants......

Saturday Gardening Part Three

I have procured some seeds from Ecuador for this variety of squash that I will be testing this year, the other photo is of some morning glory seeds from Japan,

Saturday Gardening Part Two

This is a pea that was originally collected from a Greek Island found growing wild near some ancient ruins and was originally cultivated for food, I use it as a soup pea, the flowers are very stunning and different from your normal garden pea.It makes a wonderful ornamental for the flower effect alone.

Saturday gardening

Here are a few pictures of some of my plants I am growing this year this photo is of the "primitive Stoneage Wheat", yes folks this is an ancient variety of wheat that our modernday wheat came from, and small grains that are a bit hard to winnow or husk unlike the modern larger grain and easier to husk and winnow strains future pictures to come

Heirloom Gardening

I'ts once again that time of year when tobacco is is offered ,sage,cedar,and sweetgrass burned and the soil turned and the beginning of seeds to be planted,yesterday I received a call from Hawggy about going to the Gittigann Garden meeting which I have been abstena all season, at first I polietly declined but after several taunts and insults with vulgur words and stating some guests would be talking about Heirloom Gardening my attention was perked and I replied with "maybe" I'll be there, and so I decided to to take him up on the offer that night and the guests were from the " Dream of Wild Health" farm. Now they were talking about their project of growing out Native crops from seeds handed down thru the generations and brinning nutrition and natural diets back into the lives of Natives again, and how they work on keeping these seeds alive to pass on , they stated they have been gardening for about 10 years now and were very impressed once they found out I first learned about Heirlooms and started growing almost 20 years ago over the F1 Hybrids, and later after their talk I chatted with them along with the Hawgg, and they were offering to give me their bean seed collection and give some corn this fall to plant the following season on the condition I give them a portion of the harvest and promise to pass on the seeds , now many of the bean seed strains I do have but not from the same sources as they have, such as bean and corn seed grown buy a Native seed saver named Cora who passed away in 2000, many of the varieties I was give are from seeds Cora had been growing since the 1800,s so there is not much genetic contamination and have many interesting characteristics that commercial varieties being offered today do not have. So as I admire my new gift to my collection, I now have a special plot to plant with this new unanticipated "project" on my hands along with a melon and watermelon test I am conductiong with some seeds I "Liberated" during a recent expedition to the "Black Pearl" region, and to add even more excitement I was also able to add some unique seeds from Ecuador to my plantings. already I have flats with Sword beans, Runner beans in colors of brown,white,tan,balck,scarlet,pink, and purple just waiting for the weather to warm to let their roots run free in the soil, I have stripped maize/black popcorn, and I am thinking of planting a plot of Äztec Black"corn this season as it's been a few years. the tobaccoo is starting to sprout as well as the breadseed poppies in the flower gardens, as for the house gardens the first project on the list is to capture that rascally rabbit running around the yard.

The Garden

Semi Wild Lima Beans from Peru South America very colorful seeds and pods tend to"burst" when dry and "ripe" throwing the seeds about

Stevia aka sweet plant, leaves 200 times sweeter than sugar and safe for dietetics to use, natural sugar substitute

more pics to come soon