...and the missing golf pics!

@ Mark!

  2nd Annual Venture to Swope Park.   Animals seen: a Fawn, a Raccoon w a broken leg, Rabbits, Hawks.  ....notice how I didn't mention BIRDIES?! haha

Tomato & Sunflowers

Below is the sequence of blooming events for the sunflower...is all happened over the weekend, like the fireworks, this sunflower has exploded and shown its summery colors.

Garden Mojito!

 Best. Mojitos. EVER.  The Colonel Kentucky Mint is amazing!
 

This is  one of many little tom's now.  This biggest of which is larger than a ping pong ball.

 LUSH

 I had to share a pics of the nachos: Carmelized Cumin onions, Black beans, Corn, Asiago, Cheddar, Carnitas.

I was messing with the color exposure on this one....

Have a great day...more updates soon!

Tomatoes be creepin...

Here in KC we've had some serious serious storms.  Crazy lightening, thunder, rain...and I guess it is what the plants needed.  The first tomatoes have begun to grow!  It is actually the Iraqi varietal, Baswara

 First, I had to secure one for the plants - - about 3 feet taller than the cage.  I used a vine again.

 ^I like this one

 These are going to be tomatoes in  a month...

 This is the Anise Hyssop plant.  ..the leaves smell like licorice, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it.  I'm thinking in a sauce would be good....probably a cream sauce.

 Sunflowers, getting GIANT!

This is my potted Cala Lilly - can't wait for it to grow....it's going to be purple and white.

Have a great day!!

Woah, check it out!

Last weekend I went camping (pics below).  When I returned I was AMAZED!  The hot hot sun seriously did some work on my plants!  Check it out!

The tomato plants are over 4 feet tall!  ...and before I left I used a little natural dish soap/water solution and sprayed where there were bugs eating the leaves -aephids I think.   I think it did the trick.  I'll post a pic soon of the technique.

This is in an off color just to show how tall they are above the stands, the ones pictured are 42in.

Some Spicy peppers, gwan!

The 2 surviving magnum sunflowers are over 2 feet tall!  The one on the left had the shell on it...remember??

 There they are again ^

  Above is Thai Basil.  It's is spreading everywhere...like all over the little patch...from way left to way right, 5 feet away from the mother plant, it's crazy!

 ^ Corn

 And the "weeds" that were the bain of my existence when I was digging the ground....welllll, they turned out to be lillies. *laughs

 Below is my favortite tomato plant -a little runt I planted at the last minute because I didn't want it to die.  It's super bad ass, and has a shape like a Bonsai tree, which I tried to capture...not sure if it worked though.

Okay, so Stacy TOTALLY hooked up the best pie ever!  She came over and fed the crew a whole Strawberyy-rhubarb pie, and, it was heavenly.   mmmmmmmm

 YUM YUM

Here are selected camping pics....and yes, they are Luna Moths in central Arkansas.

Ciao