Comments on: Come Saturday Morning: Summertime

By: nonquixote

nonquixote — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:17:06 +0000

NE Wis is getting near to the prolonged cold spell of last year where we did not get a night-time temp above 50 degrees until June 18. Peas are coming along, hops are 5 feet up the 20 foot poles, 1400 garlic bulbs are 18 to 30 inches high and 7 to 9 leaves (depending on variety) about ready to start sending scapes (pesto-fantastic with these, 1 cup fresh scapes, 2-3 oz pine nuts, 4-5 oz Parmezan, olive oil to blend smoothly and your favorite additional fresh herbs). Some chard, spinach, volunteer cilantro and a couple of other herbs hardened off and transplanted. 5 pickup trucks of aged manure has a huge compost pile steaming. Plenty of asparagus and rhubarb. Noticed more transients scouting private property without permission for morels and asparagus this year. Ask permission folks, please.

Peace

By: greenwarrior

greenwarrior — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:05:47 +0000

how sweet and thoughtful of you to put so much effort into helping them get out.

i’ve still don’t have a fence so no vegetables for me yet. lots of deer and the second fawn in two weeks got born on my block two nights ago. i got to watch the first one nursing one night and lots of its beginning tentative steps in life.

i’m planning on having next week be my check out fencing week. i’ve been acquiring lots of plants lately. i must dig out some grass and create a few nice happy beds for them. some will go tomorrow to a friend for her birthday. i took cuttings of the hibiscus with 8 inch gorgeous blooms that i’m giving her and also the beauty berry.

and i’ve got some babies sprouting - century plants, sago palms, canna lilies and calla lilies, moon flowers - they bloom at night with hugh white trumpet flowers. it’s sooo exciting watching the babies succeed.

By: justintime

justintime — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:49:22 +0000

Yesterday a pair of hummingbirds flew through the big door into my shop.
After exploring the interior, they attempted to exit through the skylight and wouldn’t give up their efforts to find a way through the glass. I tried to catch them with a landing net but they’re way too quick. Watching their futile efforts, I realized they would eventually exhaust themselves, so I borrowed my wife’s hummingbird feeder and placed it on the top step of a ladder directly under the skylight. They soon discovered the feeder and dropped down to refuel.
Then, over several hours, I gradually moved the feeder down the ladder to an elevation well below the top of the big door opening. It was a great feeling to watch them fuel up and zip out of the shop the way they came in.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:02:35 +0000

I hope some great rhubarb recipes will magically appear here — or at least a link to them.

I hesitate to say, but it’s 70 - 85 here in Hawaii, as it always is. Rain, or more precisely lack of rain, is the big problem.

However, having been here now for a year, I have to say it’s BORING. “A great place to visit, but wouldn’t want to live there.”

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:06:45 +0000

Yes.

By: Starbuck

Starbuck — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:06:28 +0000

We have an oceanside house, up the hill a bit with a grand sweep of the seascape so we won’t be much bothered by weather.

I don’t know the ports of call in Alaska. All I know is she is picking up the ship in Vancouver B.C.

By: peterboy

peterboy — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:05:42 +0000

I love rhubarb pie. my favorite after cherry.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:05:06 +0000

Heh. Words to live by — literally!

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:03:27 +0000

‘Morning, everyone! I was running late. Had a rough night last night.

By: Bustednuckles

Bustednuckles — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:03:23 +0000

Lol!
Good to see so many Oregonians this morning.
I grew up there but now live across the river in Washington.