Okay, I'll try this again. I was in the middle of posting when the power went out. It's been doing that for several days now. And just my side of the street. My neighbors across the street have power...strange. I heard there are some transformers down the road that have been having problems. Well I was originally posting about all the rain we are still getting and don't need. I wish it would dry out now through Sunday. I have got to get my tomatoes in the ground this weekend. They are outgrowing their little peat pots! Since I'm tired now..I will cut this post short. But I did promise a recipe! Here is one of my son and I favorites. We don't have a name for it but we always say "that's good chicken" when we have it so the name of this recipe is...

THAT'S GOOD CHICKEN

1 Whole chicken (about 5lb)

1 Lemon

A handful of sage, oregano, thyme, and rosemary

1 Large rosemary twig

3 cloves of garlic

salt & pepper

Butter

In cavity of chicken insert a half of lemon (sliced) and the handful of herbs and garlic.

Salt and Pepper chicken and roast in oven in a large roasting pan at 350 to 375 for about an hour. Baste the chicken occasionally with butter using the large rosemary twig. DELICIOUS!!

I don't think I included the green beens or my zucchini in my other post on the vegetables that I'm growing. The beans are Top Crop bush beans and I plant them every year. Very dependable and very good. I will probably live to regret planting eight zuchinni plants but I do love zuchinni bread, my son loves fried zuchinni and my new neighbors promised they'd take some!! I once read somewhere where the only time people used to lock their cars was in August so that neighbors wouldn't put their extra zuchinni in their car! This evening I put out some lettuce. I dug a trench and filled it with some good organic soil and scattered the seeds. Then I went through and covered the seeds lightly with some more organic soil. It's a bit late to be getting lettuce out but I planted a kind that would stand up to the heat. Other than that, I'm just waiting on the big garden to start sprouting! I am not a professional at this, but I like to try new things and learn as I go along. I read a lot about gardening on the web and my magazine, Mother Earth News. My dad used to come by and say "you ought to do this or that" but I told him to just let me do it. If I make a mistake, I'll learn from it. Most of my gardens have turned out good. Except the year I got a hold of some hog manure and thought that would be great to soak into my soil before I planted. Well the corn was great, but everything else burnt to a crisp! Or the time my friend come by with a few pumpkins in the back of his truck and I took them for Fall decorations. When the season was over I threw the pumpkins in my mulch pile (another story on that later) then some kids got a hold of them and smashed them in the garden. Well that next summer I had pumpkins everywhere! Well the vines anyway. I let them grow. I did get a couple of nice pumpkins but the best part was the pumpkin blossoms! Pick them, clean them, dip in milk and egg, and cracker meal like you would mushrooms and fry. Delicious!! Believe it or not dandeloin flowers are the same way. My son loves those! Tommorrow I will share some recipes using the produce out of my garden. Till then!

Another big rain!

Well we've had another big rain and it sounds like more is on the way. I've worked at a fertilize company for 9 years so we are usually running crazy but not so much this year because the rain keeps stopping us. I know it's frustrating for our farmers. Well there wasn't much I could do in the garden yesterday. At least it got a good soaking. I walked through and checked all the plants and they are still looking good. I think this evening I need to mix my organic fertilizer and water and fertilize my broccoli. I could also trench rows for lettuce and dill, fill the trench up with some good organic potting soil and plant those seeds. I am not very technically advanced but I am attempting to put some images of all the crops I'm growing this year. And when I get a digital camera (and learn to operate it)! I will regularly post my garden pictures...oh okay..I went to post the images and it goes to the top, hmmm

The Beginning

On Friday, April 24th a very nice man with an awesome John Deere tractor came to my house to till up a very big portion of my back yard where our swing set once stood. My 13 year old son was weirdly upset to get rid of it and upset that I was going to make that whole part of the backyard a big garden. He never hangs out back there anyway! And certainly does not use that swingset at his age. My neighbor across the street has a huge sideyard and that's where all the action takes place with all the boys in the neighborhood playing some type of ball there. But anyway, he'll get over it. I gave the swing set to the new neighbors that moved in next to me about a month ago. They've ended up being great neighbors, and they are excited about my new garden as well. In fact on Sunday when I wanted to put the corn and beans in, my friend John marked all the rows. I started planting beans and my neighbor came out and was chomping at the bit to get out there so he ended up planting the rest of the beans, John did the corn and they both covered the rows and it was done! I also set pepper plants in my smaller garden (about 20 of them!) and planted my herb plants and extra peppers in a 4x4 (maybe) little tilled area south of my big garden. I will have pictures posted soon and will keep photos updated as the garden grows.

WELCOME TO MY OWN PLOT OF EARTH!!!

This is my new blog about my new garden. I was so excited to get our old swing out of the yard so I could till a bigger garden than the one I've had for 10 years! Pictures of the new and old garden and my crops as they grow will be posted and I will blog about my experiences with growing, soil, good days/bad days, recipes and anything else that my rambling mind thinks about!