I am bouncing all
around in my color and fiber selections right now. The coiled one is going on my
eshop, while the rest will go in the physical shop here in Woodbine, Maryland. I am alternating between listing on my own shop:
http://www.uniquedesignsbykathyshop.com and my
etsy shop:
http://www.uniquedesignsbykathy.etsy.com.
I am not sure whether you can tell what is growing in Watusi's pasture, but it is ragweed. The goats, sheep and alpacas had all been eating around it. My neighbor finally informed me the other day that it is ragweed. Sure enough, I did an
Internet search, so I could be sure, and then I was out there mowing it down. It really needs to be tilled under, but then I w
ould not have the grass and other "weeds" that Watusi has been eating. It pulls up fairly easy, so I am weeding a little each time I go out.
This is my real garden. The
sunflowers are over 5 feet tall. They tower above me now. My beans, cucumbers and tomatoes are growing in their shade and twining around their stalks -instant trellis. Where the wooden pegs are in the rear of the picture is the last bed that Marc helped me dig. I have peppers,
stevia, catnip and corn with a few more sunflowers in that bed.
This is my first cucumber. I have not harvested it yet, since it is so small!
I have some really great neighbors, who started their gardens while I was moving in and doing kid and lamb deliveries. They have been keeping me supplied with different types of squash, peppers, zucchini. Ruth gave me basil and tomato plants. I cut 2.6 pounds of basil off and stripped the leaves this weekend. I dried a quart and used the rest to make and freeze pesto sauce. In two weeks, I will be cutting a bunch more. Gardening is occupying almost as much time as gardening. I am almost ready for chickens. Marc mentioned them when he got back from
Tucson last week. Guess he misses them also. We need to figure out where we want to put them, since we don't want to lose them to the dogs.
