A Little Update on What We’re Up To

I’ve been battling some serious allergies over the last few days. I’ve been drugged up on Benadryl all weekend, my face blew up like a balloon, my eyes have been so puffy it looks like someone punched me, and I’ve also had a few neurological issues. Oh, and lets not forget that my left heel split open leaving a huge gash in my foot. Nice right? Anyway, this weekend was shot for me but everyone else got lots of stuff accomplished.

The photo to the left includes the next small area for organization. My baking drawer is out of control, so I put my good measuring spoons out on hooks. What’s strange is that I’m still not used to the spoons being there and I’ll go searching through the baking drawer looking for them.

All the ducks and chickens are doing well, and have bumped up the amount of eggs they’re laying. We wondered why some days the ducks would lay so few and then other times they seemed to be prolific, and the mystery was solved this weekend by Vicki. She searched underneath the rabbit cages as well as behind the rabbit food bins, and voila! lots of duck eggs. I never thought to look behind the food bin. Also, the ducks are digging deeper into the dirt, laying eggs and then covering them up with that dirt. Everything has become camouflaged. To get rid of some of our eggs, I hard boiled at least 12 of them to make room in our fridge egg bin, and POOF! Vicki came back in with more and filled the egg bin right back up.

Above are our peninsula pantry shelves. Once the shelves are filled up with colorful canned foods it will look phenomenal. Dom did a great job putting them all together and capping the shelves with a finished trim. The lip on the trim will keep any of the jars from sliding off the side or front if someone were to brush up against them. We were going to paint them, but I like them the natural wood color. So far as we can tell, Simone hasn’t been phased by the jars on the shelves. One of my big concerns was her trying to rearrange or take things off the shelves. She’s doing great so far.

At some point I’ll write a post about our other pantry. Right now its not utilized to its fullest potential. I want to be ready to can up the garden this year, especially with the amount of seeds we ordered.

Vicki’s been taking a class at Jerico Nursery every other week and Saturday she brought back with her two Meyer Lemon trees. Oh-My-God! These little babies are so amazing. Each tree had fully ripened lemons on it and lots of blossoms that have filled our dining room with an intoxicating aroma. Just rubbing your fingers with the fruit will leave you smelling like lemons.

This week if my allergies get a little better, I’ll be planting the following outside around the property:

• cabbage
• chives
• garlic
• kale
• kohlrabi
• leeks
• onions
• salsify
• scallions
• spinach
• tarragon

Here is a list of what was just recently ordered and should arrive very soon…all the following were ordered from Baker Creek Heirloom. All are seed packets and if there is more than one, then it means I’ve ordered more than one variety (I won’t get too technical):

• 1 purple artichoke
• 1 cardoon
• 3 types of beans
• 1 scarlet runner
• 2 beets
• 1 cauliflower
• 1 broccoli
• 2 cabbage
• 1 pink banana
• 2 berries
• 4 amaranth
• 3 black sesame
• 1 millet
• 1/4 pound of hairy vetch
• 1 winter pea
• 2 Quinoa
• 1 black mustard
• 2 melons
• 1 Jing Orange Okra
• 2 onions
• 2 Bhut Jolkia (ghost pepper)
• 4 other hot peppers
• 3 sweet peppers
• 1 radish
• 1 rhubarb
• 1 roselle
• 3 sorghum
• 2 spinach
• 3 French summer squash
• 1 Swiss chard
• 1 orange tomato
• 1 purple tomato
• 2 red tomato
• 1 striped tomato
• 1 yellow tomato
• 1 orange glow watermelon
• 1 white wonder
• 2 basil
• 3 bee balm
• 1 once borage
• 1 chervil
• 1 chia
• 2 chives
• 2 slo bolt cilantro
• 1 cumin
• 3 dill
• 2 sorrel
• 4 Echinacea
• 2 Fever few
• 1 German Chamomile
• 1 lavender
• 3 hyssop
• 3 Lion’s tail
• 3 Lovage
• 1 marjoram
• 5 marsh mallow
• 1 parsley
• 1 rue
• 1 shisho zisu
• 1 tarragon
• 2 tooth ache plant
• 1 wormwood
• 1 yarrow
• 3 marigolds
• 9 Nasturtium
• 4 poppy
• 4 lupine
• 1 once black eyed Susan

So there you have it for the next big order. There will be another one seed order, but I haven’t decided what to plant in one other section of the garden.

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