Friday, July 25, 2008

Zucchini 2, Cucumbers 9

So I came back from my week-long trip to find nine cucumbers on two of the three vines, and two zucchini, one of them absolutely enormous:


This just shows how dangerous zucchini can be.

I think there are about nine more cucumbers that may be ready to go when I get back from this trip.

Vegetable Update

As of mid-July:
Watermelon is no longer tiny:


The chickpeas have pods (they are still fairly empty pods, though):

The cucumber and zucchini vines have made good progress:


The tomatoes are coming! These are Sweet 100's.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Hey! Hay! Hooray!

The hay in the back 10 acres was finally cut last week. Here's what they did:

1. Cut the grass and let it dry for a day:


2. Push the hay into long rows:


3. Use the special hay-rolling machine to roll up the hay like a newspaper:


4. The machine binds the hay with twine, and then opens up and lets it roll onto the ground like a giant cylindrical egg:




They made about 35 of these giant hayrolls. The hay and some of the equipment is still sitting in the field. But, I can get to the barn now much more easily.

ooh no... bunny invasion

Baby bunny outside the lettuce patch.