Saturday, May 19, 2012

Backyard Food Production Notes

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Tomatoes in self-watering earth boxes.  The boxes are expensive and synthetic, but this is their 4th year and they have done me well.  I don't use the mega-fertilizer packs they come with - don't want to grow or eat FrankenFood.  Two plants in each box: The two on the far left are heirlooms, the four on the right are Early varieties.  In this position the plants get direct sunlight from dawn til 4:00 every day.  Tomatoes are beginning to appear.


A latticework for pole beans, fashioned from a used lattice, pieces of bamboo and a CB antenna.  Fun to build, vaguely amusing to look at.

Today I made a salad from home-grown lettuce, strawberries & basil, as well as organic lime juice, white peaches and pumpkin seeds.  Hella yummy!
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