Make Shish Kabob and Pasta Salad

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

The other day Karrie and i made Shish Kabob. We cut up onions and peppers.

And cut chicken into pieces.
Then we each picked different BBQ sauce and shook everything in a bowl, with the lids on, until it was nicely coated.
Then put everything on skewers.
All set, but it was a messy job.

Waiting for the grill to heat up.
Just setting them on the grill.
Almost done.

We also made pasta salad. Here's the sausage and cheese cut into cubes.

Boiling the pasta.

All done with cheese and italian dressing added.

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Garden - 2011

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

This year was the same story as the last two years. There's not enough sun in my back yard due to all the trees. I really only get about 4 hours of direct sunlight. Besides that, some of the plants did ok. I really only care about the corn, but with the lack of sunlight they are never really going to grow well in my yard.

Here's what i grew:

• peppers - red, green, orange, jalapeno
• corn
• sunflowers
• tomatoes - cherry, giant
• gourds
• carrots
• onions
• pumpkins

After the first month.

The sunflowers did the best this year. They grew so high and big that some broke in half on windy days.



The peppers grew pretty well.
They must not need as much sunlight as other plants. The jalapeno's did the best of all the peppers.
The carrots came out ok. Some of them split open and others had weird mutant shapes.
Notice the weird looking carrot.


The gourds on the fence did great too.

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Winter Seeds

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

During the same time that i was trying to get the lotus seeds to sprout i also tried growing some other plants. First i ordered a banana tree online for $4. It showed up in the middle of winter and looked pretty hopeless.

But since then it seems to have recovered. It shoots up with 2 new leaves every 2 weeks.

Also i tried planting garlic and an onion. They are both growing great so far in a small pot by the window.
I also brought home palm tree seeds from when i was in Las Vegas and Phoenix. I'm not sure what type of palm it is, but here's what it looked like. You can see the seeds near the bottom and on the ground.

I couldn't get the seeds from the really big California Palm trees, they were too high up and most of them weren't ripe yet.

But i took the smaller palm seeds home with me, then removed the outer "fruit" part.
I soaked the seed for a day in water then put it in a plastic bag with a damp paper towel. Out of probably 15 seeds that i did this with only 4 sprouted. The rest showed no signs of doing anything. But it turned out that they just took longer, around a month and a half they began to sprout.

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Garden - May

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

This year i figured it would be a cool idea to have a garden in the back yard. I started it in May and had to dig up the sod by hand and rototill the ground. And just to let you know, cutting sod by hand for an area 16'x12' isn't a lot of fun. Here's the area half way through sod cutting and then after tilling.

I planted seeds for:
sweet corn
carrots
onions
scallions
tomatoes
cherry tomatoes
beans
melons
watermelons
cantaloupe
gourds
pumpkins
sunflowers
sweet basil

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