Thursday, June 21, 2012

The peas please

 

 

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Just a few things that are happening [finally] in my garden,  the first showings of the white blossoms that signify fresh green peas are happening.  Excited, me yes! I love peas, and I am out there like a avid gardener saying the peas please!  As if to encourage them along faster.

The Baking Soda experiment kind of worked on the fairy rings…notice that I sound perplexed.  Well it isn’t really working on the weeds, but it is turning the mushroom circles brown, and they are dying.

Who knows, I might have stumbled onto something.  Put out both of your hands in front of you thumbs barely touching, now spread your fingers slightly.  That’s the size of a mushroom that was growing in our lawn, I honestly don’t think I have ever seen anything like it, not even down on the coast.  Disposed of neatly in the compost pile,  so now that I think of it, most likely I have spread the spores…sigh.

 

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Heat wave, we are getting a two day heat wave, yah!  After all that rain, most of June was wet, it’s good to go outside and not smell wet dog. We don’t have a dog.  It’s the rain.

Zucchini, we have 3 tiny little babies of zukies, one looks like it might make it to full grown, can I break the spell?  No pics…yet.  I will be showing pics when it’s ready, this is a celebration for us remember I can’t grown them, so if it works….

 

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Bootsie decided to pick the spot where I planted the catnip seeds to roll in the dirt.  So far he’s left all of the basil seedlings alone, but the day is young.  The cosmos have finally got their second set of leaves, after being planted for a month.

 

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Our cat loves Gangsta Rap.  The neighbour was in his shed playing that nasty, swearing, rap kind of music, and Boo was sitting near the fence enthralled, fascinated with the boom, boom boom.

Great, now I have a cat that want’s to be Gangster.

 

Getting ear plugs for the cat….Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams

13 comments:

  1. Wonderful shots! Your garden is thriving.

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  2. Nothing can be better than fresh peas from the garden ... & your garden looks wonderful with all these pretties.

    Have a fabulous day ~
    TTFN ~
    Marydon

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  3. I have fresh peas a couple of times, so delicious. Catnip will do that anytime, anyplace to all cats. Ours only want to go out to roll around in it!!

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  4. I've been spending a lot of time chasing cats out of the garden too lately. They just love rolling in fresh dirt, not sure of the fascination? Unfortunately they dont' notice the seedlings they're smothering underneath.

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  5. Your garden is doing great! I love the verigated leaves on the peas. Gangstra cat. lol.

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  6. Jen girl .... you must be able to hear me LAUGHING all the way over here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The Booster has found his niche in the "gansta' music world ! hehehehe
    Joy
    I love peas too and absolutely love the name zukies !!!! too cute !!

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  7. I really like that first photo of the pea, lovely

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  8. What a cat! I tried the baking soda all over the place and I don't notice a difference. Guess I'll try boiling water next.
    Brenda

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  9. Sorry about the cat. He needs Bach therapy. :-)

    Lucky you to be getting blossoms on your peas. I think we're a few weeks from that, but I LOVE them and can't wait! I always plant only the edible pod, Oregon Sugar Pod.

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  10. It is exciting to watch a garden take shape, checking each day to see what's new, to see how much growth has taken place. I think fresh peas right off of the vine are my favorite. So sweet. I hope you planted plenty. Or maybe green beans simmered until tender with bacon. Hardly healthy with the bacon, but oh so good. What a character: Boggie Down, Boo.

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  11. How I love eating peas fresh from the pod! I can't remember homegrown peas ever making it to the kitchen.

    I think your garden is doing so well because of your neighbour's musical tastes! Plants prefer music with a heavy beat, or so I've read. I can't believe that someone actually took the trouble to research this!

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  12. That's what you get for letting him smoke cigars under the bushes... ;0 r

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