Last night I tried baking two loaves in one oven and they came out good. Since having the new entrance we can have visitors without the paranoid propaganda loving neighbor complaining. Yesterday two people came to visit and it was so nice to socialize. The first bread loaf didn't last long and was eaten within 30 minutes of being baked.
it's very windy today and I woke up quite late because I couldn't sleep so good last night. we have been rearranging the tables with the plants on to suit to the sun times better, and I transplanted the biggest Chinese cabbage plants out into the garden. They don't handle transplanting so well so we will see how they go.
freshly planted in the bed, but the others are not big enough yet to join them yet
I didn't get around to taking photos of this patch until now!
To the right of this place is an old Pond that the landowners wanted to be filled in and so it's been getting fill of cut grass and green materials, which will turn overtime into compost. Last year pumpkins grew their pretty well so they must already be enough moisture and broken down plant materials in there.
The water is held very well in the Old Pond obviously so it's actually a really good place to grow things in, in the future. This year we will try Melons there because they demand alot of water.
The picture below is Nisporro tree which I was given from a neighbor who I went to visit after a decade of not seeing him. Nispero fruits are small and orange, packed with vitamin C. I haven't given it water yet but I was told it was already four years old which explains the huge root system it had in it's tiny pot. it's best to let the roots go out and grow bigger in search of water instead of over-watering it, and it doesn't look like it needs any water at the moment.
This garden here infront of the truck was made shortly before I arrived, and has Spinach in the middle of it. Around the fence has beans planted there but not many have popped up. I guess the slugs ate the sprouting beans! A few are popping up though, and I started some more off in pots to have more chance of them growing.
Spinach
And also there are pepper plants in there too..
The pumpkins!
I didnt fit in the pumpkins which were planted out a couple of days back and here they are! Only 1 from 6 is looking good and settled in, last night and this morning they got watered though which might help.
Compost Tea!
There are various teas that you can make to feed plants with this is especially good if you have a small amount of compost and want it to go a long way. I have made various teas before, the best being nettle tea, and the stinkiest most disgusting one I remember I made was from raw fish which is great for plants that flower.
There are no stinging nettles around here the ones that are here are so tiny they don't even look like Nettles. this morning I made a compost tea it's so easy to do that everyone should do it. just take a couple of handfuls of compost (here I used hummus clay as well as we had some) and put it in a bucket, and at water. It cant get much simpler!
Compost tea is active for three days, and after 3 days the microbes start to run out of food and die off. You can feed these microbes with something like molasses but molasses costs a lot of money. Some people like to put an air bubbler in compost tea to keep it aerated but it's not needed you can just make more after the 3 days.
You can use compost tea to water things with everytime because its not strong enough to be too much for the plants. Also to feed a plant via the leaves which is called 'Foliar Feeding' is the fasted way a plant can take in nutrients, and they love it. Over the next few days I will use it to start putting microbes into the soil of the pots and when we get another spray bottle I will foliar feed in the evenings.
