8 Jul
The view of Brooks Forest
This was taken from the greenhouse looking down to the south and Brooks Forest
8 Jul
Weekly update – July 4 weekend
The growth is mad in the little greenhouse, we are able to have a salad each night out of the lettuce and mesculan and we were able to get our first tomatoe from the green house a 0.5 lb steakhouse tomato.
The giant tree tomatoes are also huge, at 4-5ft and growing so we will see how big they will get!
Ichiban aka Egglplant with fruit on it | Roma toms on the left and Early bird on the right, both covered in green toms | Lettuce ready to pick |
Some of the toms soon to be harvested | Steak house toms | Herbs are crazy |
Steak house tom getting red and ready | Bell Peppers with fruit | Giant tree tomato plant number 2 |
A giant tree tomato plant | Onions are nearly ready as you can see by the plant falling over | Green peppers |
Red and yellow pepper plants | Mesculan mix | The greenhouse full of green |
Its busy with growth in there | Strawberries hanging and in the pipe are about to fruit again | Lettuce, you can see we have harvested and used some |
30 Jun
Freezing herbs
We find in stores like Trader Joes and Wholefoods they sell frozen herbs, this is simple and east enough to do yourself with your home grown herbs.
All you need is a couple of things to do this yourself:
- Herbs
- Ice cube trays
- Water
- Sharp knife
- Zip lock bags
- Permanent marker pen
First harvest the herbs, here we have Cilantro, Basil and Oregano
Now you have the herbs, cut them finely
Now place them into the ice cube trays, about half a ice cube with the herb in question will do
Now add cold water (preferably bottled water, or water that has been boiled and cooled, unless you have a mountain stream like we do providing your own mineral water!)
Now freeze the trays, and tomorrow take them out and place in marked ziplocked bags. Presto you have fresh herbs for cooking for at least the next 6 mths!
To use them in cooking simply place into the dish and allow them to defrost and cook into the dish, or course you can defrost them and strain the water out, but thats too much hassle!
29 Jun
Snake is still happy
Just in case anyone was wondering the snake is still around, he was sitting out front of the greenhouse yesterday … he didnt like getting his pic taken though
21 Jun
Giant Tree Tomatoes becoming trees
With an average of about 2-3 inches of growth per week the giant tree toms are coming along great. Now if they would only fruit ….. for something that was bought off the tv on a infomercial so far its going good.
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- Giant tomatoe becoming a giant
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- Giant tomatoe plant
21 Jun
Yellow scurge threatens to make us sneeze to death
Last night, right at about the time we were to put the steak on the bbq a huge outflow of air from some storms sitting down at Denver send gusts of air up towards us, together with a shit load of pollen from the pine trees.
It was so bad it was stinging your eyes and actually making it kinda hard to breath.
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- Here comes the pollen
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- death by yellow dust
21 Jun
Too hot for the baby bok choi
Well the greenhouse has turned out to be either too hot, or too much of a temperature variation for the bok choi. They are going straight to seed, and flower.
I actually thought it was because there were too many plants close together, but after separating the plants they still go straight to flower. Oh well today they will be removed and replaced with something else… oh well maybe we will try again in the fall. (or get some better/different seeds)
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- Going to seed
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- Bok choi flowering
