Here’s a shot of our mandarin tree, which is doing much better than we ever expected it to! They’re not quite ready yet, but even in their “unripe” stage, they taste amazing! The rest of the garden is looking pretty terrible — we have lots of weeding to do yet (though we did a fair amount 2 weekends ago) and we still have to prep the beds for this year’s heirloom tomato attempts.
To date, we don’t have a good solution in place to stave off gophers and deer, though we’re strategizing when we can.
In the works for this year (in addition to the heirloom tomatoes) are some organic potatoes (thanks to a friend of our’s who tipped us off on the possibility of growing our own and split an order of seedling potatoes with us), and some strawberries and cherry tomatoes that we’re planning on planting in kid-friendly containers (so’s the kids can happily self-harvest)!
Our kaffir lime tree is just huge and is bearing tons and tons of fruit….You can see part of it just behind Tom and Dylan….The fruit is not worth eating at all — too bitter — but the zest is apparently useful in Thai cooking (as are the leaves, of course). My mom had the great idea of selling some lime leaves online. I was skeptical at first, but after seeing what they sell for, Tom and I decided to publish a trial listing on eBay and, lo and behold, we sold some! Our tree won’t make us rich, but making a few bucks off a tree just thriving in our backyard is kind of cool…!
Since the time change, Dylan and I have been going out into the garden every evening to do a little weeding (me) and a little water play and bubble-blowing (Dylan). We’ll post progress of the garden as it progresses…!
