A cake for Mark’s birthday
Certified Organic
OK! High & Dry Farm has just received its Organic Certification
These are the tomato varieties that we will grow this year.
First Crop of Spring
Here are two varieties of arugula – Esmee on the left and Astro on the right.
Sowing under glass
The last few days I have been busy sowing my ~120 different tomato varieties, as well as eggplant and tomatillo. The very first tomato variety to germinate was Amy’s Apricot.
Raisin d’etre
Our great weather this summer yielded a beautiful crop of about 20 lbs of Thompson Seedless grapes, from which I produced 3 lbs of raisins.
Nectar War
Here is a photo of a Pale Swallowtail.
OK, not really. Pale Swallowtails are quite rare here, so when I saw one feeding on these flowers I raced for my camera. Just as I focused this Anna’a Hummingbird showed up and aggressively drove the swallowtail away.
But doubtless God never did
Isaak Walton, in his book Compleat Angler, published in 1653, quoted Dr. Boteler as saying about strawberries “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did”.
Peas Reaching for the Sky
Lament of a wet spring
We had the second-wettest February on record in the Puget Sound, followed by the wettest March ever recorded, so needless to say, I haven’t made much progress preparing the garden for planting. That has left more time in the greenhouse, so my tomato starts (120 mainly heirloom varieties) are doing well.
