A Squash Adventure

A couple of months ago I decided to start all sorts of squash to give away. I watered and checked them daily and nothing happened. I abandoned them and Jason combined all the soil and reused it to start ice cream bean. Guess what came up?! Squash! And we don't know what is what! I can't give away plants that have no identity, so we planted them - all 15 of them. There are Wyatt's Giant Wonder, Cinderella Pumpkin, Baby Blue Hubbard, Omaha Pumpkin, and louffa gourds. There may be a couple of others as well. We'll see!
We also planted black beans, okra, zucchini, fennel, sunflowers, eggplant, orange bell peppers, tree tomato and giant white maize. Hopefully it is a bountiful harvest this year!

Tomato season is here again!

I had my Master Gardener sale on April 2nd, and the GreenSteaders sale was on the 10th. I have way too many tomato plants somehow and no place to put them all! I ended up with 5 tangerine, 2 Berkeley tie-die, 2 pineapple, 1 pork chop, 2 San Marzano, 2 Mama Leone, 1 Cherokee Purple, 1 black cherry, 2 Hezhou, 2 Paul Robeson, 1 black oxheart, and two from Apple something or other farm. Holy cow!
I've got beets in the ground and I'm getting fruit off of my snap peas. I've also joined the board of directors for GreenSteaders. :) Next up is to finish planting all those tomatoes and to start my next round of seed bombs!

Things are growing!!!

SNOW?!

I doubt we will get snow this evening, but it is in the forecast for large parts of the bay area! Jason patched up parts of the greenhouse that were destroyed in the last bad weather, and he just covered the tender plants. Hopefully most will be hardy for the cold!
We have two new additions to Sutoria Farm, a pair of ducklings named Zorro and El Kabong. Thus far they've made their home on the side of the house (they like to be near the heat vent at night), and during the day they bask in the sunshine in and around the lavender bushes in the bee garden out front. They will be quite at home this summer, and will look very cozy in the lush garden!

January heat wave

It is scion season again for the California Rare Fruit Growers (crfg.org) and our second daughter was born right in the middle of the exchanges. J went to a couple alone, and last weekend we went to the Sebastapol exchange. We tried to go to a couple of interesting places while we were there (the Yerba Mate factory and a Seed Bank), but they were closed. We did however try out the Petaluma Pie Shop and it was pretty tasty.
The warm spell we've been having has been beautiful for us, but confusing for our plants. Some of the trees are beginning to bud already. Our garden in front is sprouting California poppies and other wild flowers.
J is starting some seeds and rooting indoors. It is the cusp of spring and we are anxiously waiting for it!