It's raining.
I'm sitting in the kitchen watching the rain
from my bay window.
These neat succulents are
called pachyphytum,
or as I like to refer to them,
Pachys.
We grew most of them from 1 single leaf.
The others were rescued from the garbage.
I just poked the leaves into the soil
and within a few months,
we had beautiful plants.
This is 2 Pachy leaves with a baby.
This is 2 Echeveria leaves
with 2 babies.
This is a Kalanchoe.
It reproduces by making baby plants
along its' leaf edges.
Another Kalanchoe with babies.
You can see how the "babies"
sap the strength from the parent leaf.
I am planning to plant the
babies and remove the
dying parent leaf.
A close up of the babies with their root
systems sprouting.
A nickname for this plant is
"Mother of Thousands".
That is a good argument for not
planting it into the ground
and keeping it under control
in a pot.
Once they take hold in a
lawn or garden,
they are difficult to control.
I pick off the babies before they
grow too much.
Anytime a plant is allowed to reproduce
it can weaken the plant.
So, depending on the plant,
I'll pinch off new shoots,
buds, flowers or "babies",
unless that's what I want the
plant to do.
It's also.....
Boy, does this household love cheese!
and...
as you can plainly see....
But,
that's not all of it.
This picture isn't the snack cheeses or
the sandwich slices.
We all love it!
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There have been a few days
that have been too cold for some of our plants.
We usually don't do much other
than cover them, or put them
closer to the house, away from the wind.
But..
in this case I took a few cuttings
to save them for spring planting.
Lavendar.
Coleus.
It already has roots.
Pink Begonia.
The Sunflowers are starting to bloom,
but if the weather gets too cold,
they'll die.
We grow them to feed the hens
and neighborhood birds and squirrels.
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A recent harvest of
yellow cherry tomatoes,
jalapenos, broccoli and
cauliflower.
The girls are back at work!
This is about a weeks
worth of laying.
In the winter they don't lay as much.
Oh, well,
We'll take whatever they
can give us.
Thanks girls!
Everybody foraging in the sun.
But Minew has to get into the act.
The Chicken Girls tolerate her now.
Maybe they think she's a hen?
Well, now I believe it.
Minew is hanging out in the coop.
She does think she's a hen.
Ha!
Italian Flat Leaf Parsley
Yukon Gold Potatoes
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Habanero pepper.
Brazilian Habanero pepper
We have several more hot pepper plants.
I harvest them (with rubber gloves on!),
then dehydrate them.
My plan is to make a super hot
pepper dried herbal blend.
My grandson came up with
that suggestion.
Hopefully it'll turn out ok.
Broccoli
More broccoli.
We like it raw in salads.
Yum!
Cauliflower.
I bread the florets and sprinkle
parmesan cheese on them
and bake till golden brown.
Our lettuce collection
hasn't fared well in the
changing weather.
I harvested as much as I could
and put it in a ZipLock bag
with a couple of paper towels
to keep it fresh,
and then refrigerated it.
Even with covering them
and moving them close
to the house,
they've wilted or died.
But,
while it lasted, we had great salads!
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Remember
to choose being
kind over
being right
and
you'll be right every time!
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