The forty million bulbs we planted last November are just beginning to poke their heads up and the prizes for earliest risers go to:
and so it begins
garden
here at Sunchoke Farm
Whatever kind of soil sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes/Helianthus tuberosus require, we have it. I don’t know where they came from because I didn’t plant them, but the sunchoke patch continues to spread every year and, if left unchecked, will soon be visible from space.
back to bouquets
Woohoo! *insert GIF of cat putting on sunglasses* Summer is receding at last and the blog is finally back after being wiped out by some butthead who attacked the server this site is hosted on, along with several others, ruining the work of thousands of innocent bloggers and businesses for nothing. I will never, ever understand the point of punishing people who haven’t done anything to you, which means, I suppose, that I pass the psychopath test. Yay!
I started to catch up on some long-neglected weeding in the veg garden this morning and then made this:
It was too breezy to get a photo of it outdoors so the kitchen will have to do. Brown-eyed Susies, phlox, maple leaves, potentilla and yarrow. Not pictured: 4000 cubic metres of mint. If you need mint, I can probably help with that.
today’s bouquet
Maple leaves, brown-eyed susies, shasta daisies, veronica, yarrow, mint, vetch and wild asters.
my body positive tomato
I’m not sure why this tomato (1) ripened so much faster than the others and (2) appears to be a small beefsteak tomato on a cherry tomato plant, but whatever. You be you, little tomato.
an embarrassment of saskatoon berries
It took me about an hour this morning to pick three and a half pounds of saskatoon berries, which are seriously over-achieving this year. These went directly into a crisp, whereas the seven pounds plus that Robin, Foster and I picked last night went into jam or the freezer. Only another four thousand pounds to go.