Goings on around the home front

     Hello again and welcome to fall in Ga! I thought I would share with you some tips and some of the things I have going on around the little house on the driveway! The first thing I would like to share that I have been doing for years, which is my little stand of green onions. I love to throw green onions in many things I cook and since I mainly use the green part of this onion I learned a way to have them all season and only have to buy them once!

As you can see what I like to do is use the green parts of my onions and then I just dig a little hole in my onion pot, place the base of the onion in the dirt, firm around it and waa-la I have onion greens any time I need them. You can see where I cut them off and you can see the new growth. These have not been in the pot any longer than 2 weeks. They start growing again as soon as you place them in the dirt. Just another way to save a little cash


Now the next thing I have going is the garden, which is a moderate size this year, but some of the things grown in this garden can be grown in pots on you porch. Last year I had 2 window boxes going, one with spinach and one with leaf lettuce and I had salad right up until summer. I just hate paying a buck for a head of lettuce and the worst part is I don’t know what pesticides were used on my food. This way I know! (Unless my husband did something in not aware of.

In my garden I have at the moment baby acorn squash, leaf lettuce, spinach, arugala, mesclun, collards and broccoli. After a rain last week the lettuce started growing quite quickly. I’m hoping that the spinach and the rest of the salad greens start making this jump as well. Below is just part of the spinach I have growing. I chose 3 different types, Avon, baby leaf and Teton. After a few weeks of growing I realized that only 1 type was actually coming up. The Teton, so I took the rest of the teton and planted it where the other 2 SHOULD have been growing. Not sure what happened there as the seeds are not old just dont seem viable. Oh well! ......Hum it seems that the 2 that aren't growing are Burpee and the 1 that is growing is Ferry Morse. Note to self!

These baby acorn squash are just too cute! I've never grown acorn squash so these are a first for me. I have 4 plants, all in different stages of growth as I wish to keep them coming as long as possible. I just can't wait to bake up these little buggers! I just spread a little dried blood around all the greens. Dried blood is 100% nitrogen and just what the greens need to burst into happy table food!
One more thing I did was to go ahead and cut the seed pods off my moon flowers so they have plenty of time to dry out before it freezes. I had a real nice bunch of flowers this year so I have many seed pods. I will let these dry outside on newspaper. I dont want them inside cause ants love these vines and I dont need ants inside the house. (I dont need them outside either) Come to think of it im not really sure what ants are good for.......they are too damn small to eat! ;)

Last week I had a massive amout of female hummers. The males have already gone south leaving the females to fuel up and should be going soon. They have become very trusting of us and will almost let us touch them. I have only noticed a few today so im guessing that they are hearing the call to leave. I will take down 2 feeders and refill 2 feeders for the stragglers to have food. Some hummers dont get the call and will hang around, sometimes all year so I try to leave at least one feeder going year round.

Thats all for now off to water the garden!
Stay tuned as soon we will be making rock candles and shitake mushroom logs. I am very serious about growing as much of my food as I can and keeping our money in our own pockets!
Just remember. Do what you love and love what you do!