Channeling Sophie's Garden

Carol's garden is in Port Hope MI, in a rural, lakeside community. She has lots of space and expertise. Laura' garden is located in Centralia WA, in a small suburban yard challenged by access to sun and space. Debbie's garden is in Deckerville MI, in a smaller rural yard, where rules are ignored.

Each of us is applying what we learned at at our mother's and grandmother's knees in space once owned by Sophie Mayer Birg Harter on Rangeline Road. Sophie immigrated to Detroit in 1908 from Heufeld, a once German (Donauschwaben) community of Hungary. Her hope lives on.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

The canning continues

We are trying to get as much stuff canned as possible before we leave on vacation next week. So far this weekend we have picked and canned wild blackberries. they are really good canned. a neighbor has lots in their woods and let us pick. With the dry weather we were surprised to see so many. They are a little on the sour side but once canned they will be sweeter. We froze a few quarts of green beans and hope to make some saurkraut today. Hope everyone is busy in the garden.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Tomato


Tomatos doing well. We have been eating daily, BLT's are great

tomatot

Side garden climbers

Side garden tomatoes are doing much better than tomatoes located away from the house. The heat bouncing off the wall is making a difference.

Tomatillos are producing, massively. They are very pretty - remind me of chinese lanterns.

And with the garlic harvested, we replanted the side garden with cabbage, sweet peppers, black beans, celery, basil and carrots.