My FarmVille: Week 15

Sadly, the peas are almost over, and there's not a lot else to eat in the garden right now other than herbs, lettuce and baby carrots. The broccoli is coming in very small and the beets and turnips are still nowhere near eating size, so I'm going to be relying on the farmer's market for a bit.

I have currants though:

The mature lettuce plants are getting really tall as I cut outer leaves off:

Good thing the new lettuces I planted a few weeks ago are harvest size. The weather's getting really hot and I predict these old ones will go to seed very soon.

I can't wait for tomatoes. One day this tiny green San Marzano blob will be in my sauce:

My FarmVille: Week 14

I'm pretty sure it's actually week 14, even though I just posted just last week. I'm getting a few blooms on the eggplant, pepper, and tomato plants in this bed:

I hope the bees come around again. I got another tomato plant yesterday (my 5th--the Sweet Million cherry tom I grew last year that was amazingly productive), but I have no idea where to put it. The herbs are really taking off and spreading out, and I've picked a bit of basil here and there.

The sweet potatoes (under hay) and corn are coming up nicely here:

The sunflowers I planted along the wall (above) are acting as snail bait, because I can't seem to get many to grow much before they get mowed down, giving them belly aches before they get to the other plants (I hope). I also put in another pepper plant right in front there (behind the ginormous strawberry plants in the foreground). That makes 5 pepper plants.

As you can see in the photo below, the peas got really tall and thick, and then fell over.

I'm getting a lot of peas though, so I can't complain. The carrot foliage is growing thicker now, and I've harvested a few more disappointing turnips.

The spinach is at it's end, and I have to decide what to plant there next. I also ate the first head of broccoli and it was pretty good, just very very small, but the buds were opening so I knew it was already mature.

I'm really looking forward to some baby carrots and the next broccoli coming soon.

Road Trip

The beach is a place I rarely go, which is odd considering I love the water and swimming is one of my favorite physical activities.

Last weekend I arranged to see some of my old buddies from high school and go to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which I remembered loving from childhood for all the sticky sweets, arcade games and rides, tacky souvenir shops, and silly t-shirts. I was not disappointed: