Seed orders

Life is kind of funny, right? I mean look at the picture of those beans, Wow kind of awesome. A fantastic Pa German Red Lima that taste as good as it looks. I grow tons of these this year and added it to our seed catalog and put it on our website and our local harvest store. Nothing. Fine I will keep them all for myself. I could move into a cave and stare at these beans all day long. 

Wait till next year when no one buys my Hopi orange and blue lima beans. I can't wait. 

Later

Mourn A Copia

Mourn a Copia

        Leave and travel well.

I just read that Copia, The American Center for Wine, Food and Arts has locked its Napa Valley doors and filed for chapter 11, but it was too debt burdened ($80 Million dollars) and the courts turned them down. FIN.

Maybe they should have been the center for wine, food and SUV, then big brother could have helped them out.

I have only been to Copia in spirit, but I loved what they where doing, not the $80 million of over spending, but all the education and wonderful information that came out of there.

I know organic Arugula is expensive, but 80 million is a big hole, I mean don’t you get to 40 mil and say, ”Maybe this stupid.”

At least you made a tomato, and a great one at that. So this year maybe I will make the COPIA tomato my tomato of the year. Copia was breed by Jeff Dawson the first garden manager of the Copia Center. It is a cross between Green Zebra and Striped Marvel, both awesome by themselves. This is a medium large to large fruited tomato with a taste that is full of abundance, or as one would say in Latin, “Copia”.

So this year I will rant and rave and jump up and down tell everyone about you and who great you were and maybe someone will be inspired and pick up the torch you burned and fill our hearts once again with abundance. VIVA COPIA.

 

 

Fall Crops are a coming

                                                       Have you ever seen a blue radish?

                           How about a golden?

I love a good radish and I am really happy 

to see them back in the fields. 

We are collecting seeds like mad, tons of crops 

coming in now.

Later

cosmos

Maybe it was the lack of sleep, or it was the long hours in the hot sun, I don't know but when I dropped of some tomatoes today, the chef asked me what one of my big wonderful treats tasted like.

With out thinking I grabbed one of his knives and cut it in half, I put it into his hands and said, "Look and eat, it is like being with Carl Sagon looking thru the Hubble  telescope at the cosmos and being able to taste it.

He bought way more then he needed.

This is a picture of Northern Lights, green shoulder, yellow body and pink blossom end. 

later

tomatoes tomatoes, everywhere, but not a drop to eat.

Well I had my first tomato on the 18th of June and I thought well that is a record even for a brown cherry in the ground with no cover. I will just sit back and a great wave of tomatoes should be breaking over our heads any day now.

July 13th and no wave, just a tiny stream. 

I read in this old book that I have about the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and their moon lure that Tomatoes should be planted in the full moon, So I did that in April, I mean come on already. The book calls the July moon the Mead moon, I hope it is the tomato moon or I will be hitting the mead hard, anyone know a good bee keeper?

I love this stuff

                                                         Blood Sorrel, I love this stuff. 

I could look at it all day long. Eat them tender and young it is a great salad green that lends a                                           mellow lemon flavor and striking beauty to any salad.

G's up HOE'S Down

Some of my hoes.

Emerson once wrote,"My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper."

Well I must be just about out of lust and about as smooth as a babies butt.

All we have been doing is hoeing to get on top of the weeds so we can lay some mulch down.