Life Transplanet

This weekend we started the task of the last harvest. Things are starting to turn brown and since the frost hit, our basil, tomatoes and peppers have not been happy. We decided to go gather up as much of the bounty as we could wrangle together. We started to turn under the garden and we need to do the same to the greenhouse and move the chickens in, but that we might save for  another warmer  day. Here is a fun video I made of our harvest, greenhouse and garden. I just started playing with Youtube’s video editor so it was kind of fun to do. I hope you like it:

Here’s some of the bounty all washed

Look how purple this potato is…and iridescent!

Today we made egg and potato breakfast burritos with this and since it’s chili out, I’ll use some of these ingredients to make some chili to stay in too!

I think we have solved the mystery plant puzzle. I believe it is a pumpkin/gourd. Here is a picture. What do you think? We have a few of them springing up everywhere in the greenhouse. It is growing so much that it is pushing the potted plants off the shelves.

Is it a gourd or a pumpkin?

In any case, the greenhouse is so full we cannot even walk in there anymore.

We also have a few things popping up in the garden.

A curvy cucumber

Broccoli

Garlic Top Bulb looking down at it

So, this is looking down at the garlic. If you don’t cut the garlic scape as we did earlier in the spring, apparently it creates this bulb on TOP of the plant that looks just like a miniature bulb except it has all these little seed like things coming from it.  It’s weird the things you learn in the garden.

And of course, what would a garden post be without a picture of some chickens!

The yard is becoming quite the wonder once again. I wish it could be spring, summer and fall all year round because our house and yard look awesome and produces some terrific food in the bright sunshine. The chickens would be happier too!  But if that were the case, we might not be planning our escape to Puerto Rico!

The chicks are getting bigger. I think they are still too small to live outside, but they might be able to here in about 3 weeks. We had to put the Schnoodle baby gate over the top of the box because they kept flying up on top of the box sides and pooping.

The big chicken continues to lay her eggs in the newly constructed chicken coop, but still wants to sleep in the greenhouse. One day we closed the greenhouse to see if she would go to sleep on her own in the new coop. When we checked on her, she was sitting right outside our back sliding door, so we just let her into the greenhouse once again.

Here’s a few pictures I took today. Beware, they contain scenes of a sunny nature:

A chick exploring in the flower garden (under supervision)

Here’s the chick on my arm and the adult in background

Columbine plant (Colorado state flower) in Greenhouse

Looking up at a columbine in greenhouse

Tonight was a perfect summer night for a BBQ. The air was still and warm, but not too warm. There was cloud cover and it was not stinky (notorious in Greeley). We grilled up some organic chicken and drenched it in BBQ sauce.

 You might notice Schnoodle, (the black blob) and Kitty (the grey blob) in the background. The flowers are blooming everywhere in the flower gardens.

Here’s Noodle enjoying some corn cob.

Here’s one of the lillies.

These roses are cool because they change color from the UV in the sun.

Daisies…

If you know what this flower is called, let me know. I think it’s gallardia or something, but Britton thinks that’s the name of a water-borne illness.

The greenhouse plants are doing well also. It mostly has strawberry plants, lettuce, marigolds, garlic and tomatoes on the shelves.