Going to collect some rosehips today and hopefully make some rosehip tea when they dry.
http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/articles-submit/michael-brooks/rose-hips.htm
Whoopsie! Guess I didn’t read the article well enough above as to when I should harvest. Oh well there are a few still left on the plant to turn from green to red (blush)
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-garden/2009/06/deadheading-plants.html
Today I harvested:
From the tomatoes and the squash my mother made the following recipe that is absolutely scrumptious!
Ingredients:
(all cooked in a frying pan)
Meat is cooked separately from the squash and then put together in a large frying pan along with the rest of the ingredients and stirred. The tomatoes and caramelized onions were from a previous harvest that was made in a large pot and stored in the freezer for meals like this that you can just get out and pour in the pan for a quick meal.
Just took this photo with my new iphone. I love its selective focus and macro capabilities. Makes it so much easier to share a quick picture.
In addition to just taking this snapshot with the iPhone I played around with the image with a few of the iPhone apps. Most notably one called color splash. I thought of it because I was having trouble getting focus on the little green plants with all the busy green plants in the background. I like the glass sun of my garden stand and I wanted to frame it with the trees but it wasn’t working. With color splash it makes the whole image B&W and then you just use your finger to “paint” back in the color of the original image. You can zoom in to do fine detail or zoom out to do big brush strokes.
The other apps I used on this image was photogene to adjust the levels, color saturation and temperature. I also added the soft dark edge in this program as well as a slight crop. Then I opened it in Picoli to sharpen it. Between these apps I practically have photoshop on my iPhone!
These little trees/bushes are so cute that I saw at Raley’s that I couldnt’ resist. They were bone dry so I hope they make it. When my new office at work is finished I will have a window so I may take them there since they are so little but for the time being they are in my fern garden.
The names are from left to right: ‘wilma’ lemon cypress (cupressus macrocarpa), european olive (olea europaea), lavender, ‘microphyllus’ dwarf euonymus (euonymus japonica).
Just discovered my pump has quit and from the looks of it it’s because I haven’t maintained it. The whole pondneeds severe cleaning. Wow this looks like a lot of work! Hopefully I can get by with a little maintenance before I have to do the whole thing like this.
Just came back from lowes and bought this. I cleaned out the filters and put this in the casing. It cost $60. I also bought a really cool spitter for the same amount but it’s all plugged up so I can’t use it 🙁
This pump is kinda cool in that it also has a light so two for the price of one I guess!
This is a picture of my pond as it looked before it got a little out of hand. At least the punp is back to working but the papayrus and bullrush are looking a little weathered. The lizard tail in the foreground next to the fish spitter is in bloom now and taller. Will take a picture of that after I get the tub a little more cleaned. This is an old clawfoot bathtub that my family had while I was growing up.
I was taking the bird netting off a bush today and almost put my hand on this window and her eggs. I was one big goosebump as I took this photo!
Well he thinks he owns it and I am only allowed to enter if he happens to feel like letting me in. Here he is perched on the door to my fern house. Love to see them with their tails hanging down like that.
I harvested
My dogs harvested:
