Foraging and Survival

Last Saturday, I had a chance to meet Christpher Nyerges. He is this awesome man who has been teaching survival skills, plant identification and other great stuff. At the Temple City Library yesterday, he really engaged my girls with the small animal trap and the sampling of plant based food found by foraging in the wild.

I am attempting to propagate the wild currant and the rose. If you go to his website, he has classes almost every weekend. This Thursday night, he is going to be at Eaton Canyon talking about his latest book, Foraging California. 

  

Need to Catch Up!

It's been awhile since I have blogged. School is out and I have been trying to get a position at another school closer to home. I have only been on vacation for two weeks. Time is going by so slowly! The garden had been neglected and I have been spending a lot of time grooming the roses. The rose are going crazy! Today the girls are at Raging Waters with their dad and friend.  So that gives me time to relocate a rose, water, mulch, weed, prune, tie back the milkweed, turn the worms, and trim the sage. I still need to go back to later to tie the tomatoes back. They are spilling over. Either at this garden or the school garden, work never stops! But I love touching the soil, the worms, and being patient with my newly planted seeds. The deep watering sure helps! The sun is out bright and early with no hint of overcast weather. This is not normal. What in the world is going on? The tomatoes are looking fantastic in all the plots. The temperature is just perfect! How can this be?

The mulberry tree is just about done!

I stripped the leaves but you must always leave a few in top.

First time growing Stevia. I think the plant looks interesting. 

Last time I walked by A Shropshire Lad, I snapped the flower off. This time I am very careful with this David Austin rose because it is such a tender bush.

Oh, Jubilee, you are so gorgeous and the blooming is so continuous! This is a must have David Austin rose in your garden!

I have tomatoes too . All of them have names but I did let someone else plant them. What is this one? We'll just have to wait until they ripen. I planted my mystery favorite from the seeds I collected last year, Black Cherry, Tangerine, Golden Nugget? and some others.