Books :
- Lawns (Rodale's Organic Gardening Basics)
- Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables - Seasonal Recipes and Stories from A Community Supported Farm
- A Slice of Organic Life - review
Toledo Talk article titled: Ten Mile Creek Farm - Community Supported Agriculture. This CSA is located near Berkey in western Lucas County.
June 2007
A small sunflower I think came from birdseed, and swamp milkweed, which is an Oak Openings native that the butterflies enjoy, especially the Monarchs. The towering oak trees provide shade and mottled lighting.
Three noisy, recently-fledged Blue Jays stop by for drink.
July 2007
My 15-year-old indoor cat, Comet, enjoying a taste of the outdoors. Literally. I forget the name of the plant in the background that grows low to the ground, but Comet enjoyed rolling around in it. He's done that in the past too.
Some of the "Black Valentine" green beans planted at the end of May are ready to be picked. Photos from earlier in the week:
A nice backyard visitor:
Organically-grown green beans from the back yard, it can be done in the city. The beans taste great. Only problem is, we don't grow enough of them. I need to build more bean boxes. We don't have enough room nor sun to grow them in our yard, so I built 4' × 2' wooden boxes with 12" walls. Our beans grow over our concrete driveway.
Some tomatoes are starting to ripen.
Recent rains have greened things up again.
Lawn maintenance
2007:
- early or mid-May, applied Espoma Turf-tone lawn food (18-0-3).
- mid-July, applied Espoma Dried Blood (12-0-0).
- mowed on July 29. first mowing since the third or fourth week of June.
