16 thoughts on “Brown Eyed Susan Haiku.”

  1. This summers has been hell on our plants, nothing is growing right.

    Heck, its 65 in August! Our tomatoes will be frostbit in no time.

  2. Chris– I’m now harvesting 2 tomatoes a day. Yummm!!!
    My pepper plants are pitifully small, but they have peppers on them. The real disappointment has been the basil.

  3. Farm picnic! 🙂
    Zipline, fishin’, and campfire songs
    Crazy Country Folk 😉

    Andrew

  4. Lucia,
    I live on the South Carolina coast and ate my 1st tomato of the season on April 15. I bought the plants when they first showed up in the nursery on February 15 and kept them in the garage or inside the house when temperatures dropped below freezing. I took a chance and planted fairly mature plants in late March (Avg last frost is April 11). My plants have pretty much played out and I will have to go through the rest of the season tomatoless. Next year I will stagger the planting. I also tried one of the products where the plant grows upside down in a bag. In our summer sun it required water at least every other day due to the water draining thru the bag (note don’t try this indoor unless you have a basin for the water to drip into). I also ended up with blossom-end rot due to the fertilizer (fortified with calcium) leaching out. Hope you are enjoying a bumper crop. I do follow and enjoy your writing.

  6. “My pepper plants are pitifully small”

    Mine too, my jalapeno’s are little, but doing all right and I should get some sort of crop. I do have the buds of a couple of peppers developing on my peach habanero’s, but I was not sure if I could get them to work in a 6A area anyway, crossing my fingers.

    If I get enough, I’m going to make a pear and apple salsa with peach habanero’s, all from the backyard, yum.

  7. Figs. Ridge and ball cucumbers. Beetroot. Toms and courgettes and blackberries and raspberries and Merryweather damsons, Discovery and Tydeman’s apples, pears and colourful carrots and, soon, grapes and pumpkins and maybe sweetcorn.

    And wasps.

    JF

  8. Mitchell– I do think we’ll make homemade salsa this weekend. There are enough peppers for that. I don’t think we’ll have enough for “dragon turds”. (Jalepenos stuffed with italian sausage, wrapped in bacon and grilled.)

  9. Patty Girl
    Furry Friend and Wily Window-Watcher
    Rest in Peace

    my sister’s cat passed away at the vet just now 🙁

    Andrew

  12. Texas summer August
    Old dry heat rustles leaves
    Cicadas lamenting summer’s end

    not quite haiku, but it is so darn hot.

  13. My wife is gearing up for the first salsa day this weekend too – we’ll probably get around 50 quarts on this go-round. Probably another 50 quart weekend coming up 2 or 3 weekends from now too. I’m definitely setting aside some jalapenos for dragon turds, though – we have a few trophie peppers that don’t deserve being minced!

  15. Old Lawnmower
    Cut through weeds as thick as thieves
    Now rendered inoperative :/

    Andrew

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