#better boy

Browning what will eventually be smothered potatoes: 

Impulse buy from the wine store. We’ve had sparkling reds before but this one has a lot of body: 

So much body that you only really see the effervescence when initially poured: 

Finishing the smothered potatoes - liquid added & lid on: 

Ham (pan cooked with bacon grease no less), smothered potatoes, scrambled eggs & homegrown tomatoes (Harvested green in November & just now getting ripe for consumption): 

Garden Log 3/25/20

Yesterday I got the empty space between the two raised beds ready for planting. I had already weed whacked it down to the dirt as best I could, so all I had to do was fork the area up to loosen the soil, cover it all with wet cardboard, and top that with leaf/pine shavings/etc mulch.

Last night it rained an inch and a half, so everything was nice and wet for transplanting. Maybe too wet under the cardboard? Muddy. But I think it'll dry out soon enough and not drown my transplants.

I put four Better Boy tomatoes at the far end, and four Black Krim on the end nearer the gate. These seedlings are from the farmers market. I only have four tomato cages, total, which is something I should fix before the plants get too big. (I will most likely fail to address this in time, if my past performance is any indication.) In between there are six collard plants that I started in the cold frame and moved over today.

The left bed, viewed from this distance, still doesn't have a lot going on, but the lettuce is popping up.

My wife went to the grocery store for holiday week supplies today.

I seriously wanted there to be a ‘George’ to set beside this ‘Romero’: 

Since my wife had braved the rain & the shambling throngs of plague-blighted consumers, I made dinner. Grilled boneless pork chops, broccoli mushroom rice made with leftover white rice from some Chinese takeaway & Romaine salad with homegrown tomatoes (A mixture of Lemon Boy, Cherokee Purple, Better Boy, Better Bush & Phoenix): 

Monday’s backyard garden harvest. That is the first cucumber from our volunteer plant. I suspect it is a Marketmore: 

I wasn’t completely happy with any of these photos but I was glad to capture these images of this Eight-spotted moth: 

Grapevines are a host plant for their larvae so I expect caterpillars in our future: 

Tuesday’s backyard garden harvest: 

Tuesday’s Plot 420 harvest: 

Wednesday’s backyard garden harvest:  

I think this volunteer tomato is a Juliet crossed with something else. Juliet fruits are oval so something else figured in to give this fruit its heart shape. If it tastes good, we’ll definitely save seeds: