So many great empires hath come and gone. It is quite fitting that immediately after posting about the spread of my zucchinis, they have met their maker. At the zenith of their power, like Rome before them, a barbarian horde in the guise of a white, filthy powder has been their undoing. Powdery mildew has arrived in my garden. Read More
These photos were all taken back on July 19, when I did my second real harvest. am still playing catchup with my posts, and unfortunately my garden isn’t looking as pretty today as it was a couple weeks ago when I took the below pictures. T
he real story here is my zucchinis. Check out how these guys totally took over the expanded patch. They came, saw and conquered the already growing eggplants and onions. Read More
My garden is growing faster than my capacity to keep up with the posts. I’m backlogged by about a month. But I had to get a quick post up to show the progress. Here are some photos showing the growth during the last few weeks after the big expansion was completed on June 9, when tall Paul and I built the garden boxes and planted all the new plots. Read More
Last weekend, Grant and I and our girl friends went up to Big Bear Mountain and Lake for the weekend to celebrate Grant’s 31st birthday. We both brought up veggies from the garden to use for meals/appetizers over the weekend. To the left, you can see a zucchini that Grant grew, a few small red tomatoes from Grant, cherry tomatoes from both of us, green zebra tomatoes from both of our gardens, and jalapenos and serrano peppers from my garden. We got up there late on Friday night and had some burritos with sliced up zucchini from the garden thrown in with peppers and onions. They were tasty.
On Saturday, we woke up and cooked waffles and eggs before heading out to rent a boat and do some tubing and wake boarding. You can see in the picutre on the right that Grant was having a good time and definitely did the best of all us that went wake boarding. Big Bear is very nice, it reminded me of northern Minnesota with mountains. 
The next picture is of myself wake boarding. I was going to water ski but our boat driver said that is for sissies and I should agridude up and get on a wake board. This was my fifth attempt and by far my best one. I will tell you that it is not that easy to get up when you are one half of QT…. I also want to note that I am still UBER sore from wake boarding. My back and arms feel like I did 200 pull ups and everyone knows that would be impossible for me. 
After everyone went wake boarding, it was time to bring out the tube. Grant and I had a blast out there. Tubing really reminds me of being 8 years old and having fun on the water. Our driver took it easy on us until we were tired of the joy ride and Grant thru up the finger to get buck wild. I was the first to bail on a full speed nasty turn. I think I did a cart wheel after I bounced off the water. Good times… Read More
My garden is really shaping up nicely. Below are some pictures of Agridude Paul and me doing work (Rob & Big style) back on the weekend of June 8-10. It was pretty much a full weekend project creating new plots to expand my existing garden. Work started on Saturday morning when my girlfriend Jilly and I made a trip to Lowes and brought back half the store. My small ass car was overloaded with gardening supplies – plants, wood, dirt, mulch – for the expansion. Read More
Here are a few pictures of my SoCal garden as of June 3, 2012. I’ve been working this tiny 5’x2’ plot in my apartment complex’s backyard for the past couple years. This year I’m going to work on expanding it. My gf’s parents own the building and have graciously agreed to pretty much takeover the back and let me expand however I want. My current plan is to rip out that bush/flower thing next to the garden, dig up all that crab grass, box it off, add a shit ton of good dirt, and expand. Then I’m going to run a tressle up the side of the wall and let some cucumbers run wild. I may also line up a bunch of lettuce boxes and flowers along the fence across the little walk way. There were previously a ton of dead plants and garbage sitting in the corner that totally destroyed all the grass in that corner. I laid out some sod pads a couple weeks back, but they are struggling in the summer son. Depending on how much work I can get done, I might tear it all back up and box that off for future expansion too. Read More