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My Amarillis bloomed on easter

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Can't wait till we start planting again soon!

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Kraut harvest. Ten times this left to harvest.

Intercropped them between my potato rows, with a good dusting of mayweek, cilantro, and radish seeds. My first year to get good dense heads of cabbage that weren't tunneled throughout by cabbage loopers, and I lost no garden space to them.

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Was out mowing the yard when a bit of red caught my eye on the pomegranate bush. I bought a couple bare root plants a few years back, basically looked like a little stick with some roots dangling off the end. One didn't make it through the first winter, but the other kept struggling back the past few years. The bush is now a little over 6 feet tall, and this is the first time it's flowered/fruited. I'm pretty pysched about it. Hopefully, I'll have a picture to share this fall of a mature fruit.

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That's just two days' worth, and the third day has the bucket topped off.
I'd say there's 10 to 12 pounds there.
It's been quite a bumper crop this year, which is a relief because I was worried the chestnuts would succumb to the post-derecho disease like so many others in the area.

We moved to our own place last October 30th.
Our lot is about 900 mts2 and I have been working the land in my spare time. Good thing is that working from home is a big benefit because I am able to just take a little walk through our yard and see how everything is going.

So far we have planted:

- cherry tomatoes
- tomatoes
- squash
- zucchini
- potatoes
- onions
- avocado
- arracache
- melon
- water melon
- orange lemon
- cas guava
- mango
- tangerine
- orange
- spinach
- blackberry
- coriander
- lettuce
- chamomile
- chive
- banana
- sweet corn
- sweet pepper
- hot pepper
- carrots
- papaya
- celery
- Italian parsley
- mint
- thyme
- aloe vera

We are still missing the coffee trees and other plants, but all in due time. Hopefully in a couple of months/years we will see everything fructify in the Lord's name.

TL,DR; I used echinacea root tea to rapidly relieve the symptoms of an URI that has afflicted my family.

One benefit is the effect the root tea has on our upper respiratory system.

My family is sick with some random head cold, I chose to suffer through it since it didn't stop from getting my work done. No fever for me but I've been blowing out "grellow" mucus for a few days.

My three month old and almost two year old have fevers to accompany their sickness. They got to drink some echinacea root tea mixed with their breastmilk and cow milk respectively. Within the hour they both had fevers lower a few degrees and no more fussing. The mucus broke free and after one round of booger-sucking and nose blowing there's no more stuffiness.

If I followed a pediatricians advice, the youngest wouldn't be able to have anything unless we wanted to risk using ibuprofen, which doesn't really help the situation at all. The toddler would have been able to take motrin, which would help with the fever, but nothing else.

I'm glad I chose the echinacea, it's doing so well with helping the boys feel better. I still felt like crap, so I drank the leftovers with my wife. No more headache after 5-10 minutes and my nose is clear.

The plants are gorgeous as well. Mine all have red/orange flowers. I didn't want to harvest them, but the tea was why I planted them to begin.

I suggest this to others if they are so inclined, it worked better than anything I've ever taken, doesn't make me feel like shit either, like cold meds have in the past.

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Don't nibble on my tomatoes.

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Bought 3 sets of live Wasabi plants a couple years ago from a grower a bit south of San Francisco. First time they've flowered. Still in the one gallon pots, so probably time to separate the multiple rhizomes, harvest a few, and repot the rest.

So far the only pure Wasabi I've had is the freeze dried, so am anticipating my first fresh. You never get actual Wasabi at your sushi place. It's mainly horseradish and chemical dyes.

If you garden, the starts are very affordable, and they multiply off of the main rhizome. The initial 3 sets could become 24 separate pots now.

https://hmbwasabi.com/shop/ (plants and parts)

After winter and before summer heat is probably the best time for shipping.

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T. Pachanoi or San Pedro is a type of cactus that produces mescaline. I've been collecting them for a while, but I noticed something cool with this one. It underwent a mutation called cresting. It's normally supposed to have between 5 and seven ribs, but this guy has at least 16 at the top that are fanning out.

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Drip is in. Haven't had to set up the timer for how much it's rained recently though..