| After months and months of attempting to grow my own food, I have a new development to announce from Flower Power Farm (my family's name for our garden): WE HAVE FLOWERS!!!!
Fava beans take 80-100 days to grow to maturity, so I'm told. We planted ours on November 11. It's been 94 days. And until about yesterday, the plants showed NO SIGN of doing anything that would result in fava beans. Fortunately, these plants are doing a double duty as wonderful cover crops, so even if they end in failure as far as fava beans go, they are still helping the soil - and the plants will be very welcome additions to our compost pile.
Then, yesterday I decided to take a look at our usually very boring fava beans. And here's what I saw:
For anyone who is keeping track, that is our FIRST FLOWER on any of our very many plants here in the entire garden. Hooray!
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| Our carrots are actually starting to resemble carrots:
I had the kids each pick one and eat one the other day. Our older daughter asked me if she eats the root or the leaves. I asked her which part of it looked like a carrot. "The root," she answered. Yup. (When I told our younger daughter that the carrots are actually underground she said "That's amazing!") In about a week, I'm going to thin the carrots and then have a baby carrot feast on the ones I thin.
And then there's the squash. Oh my god. Every time I look, it seems, more squash pops up. It pops up where it should and where it shouldn't. Here's where the squash should be growing:
Some of these guys need to be thinned or transplanted.
Here's where the squash SHOULDN'T be growing:
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