Friday, November 5, 2010

Organic Gardening Magazine and a mutant grape

Here's a recent post from my blog to prove that I'm a real Garden Guru! At the bottom of my post I refer to Donald, who was our cockerel (young rooster).  We adopted three baby chicks that were all sexed to be girls, but sexing isn't 100% accurate so there's always a chance that you'll end up with a boy like we did.  We live in a suburb so we felt we couldn't keep him, so a farmer from the Farmer's Market helped me to place him with a farming family who are in the National Guard.



I just got the October/November issue of Organic Gardening Magazine!  This is the bottom of page 12, photographed in my golden sage plant.

Woo hoo!

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Also, today Alan found this strange mutant grape, no I didn't grow it.  Have you ever seen anything like it?  Not only is it huge, but it has ribs like a pumpkin!  After photographing it, Alan cut it up and fed it to the chickens.

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Joel gave my contact info to Donald's soon to be new family.  His new "mom" wants him to come to the farm soon, before she deploys to (I think) Virginia to train combat helicopter pilots later this month.  His soon to be new "dad" has just deployed to Iraq.  Their son will take care of the farm while they're gone.  In the mean time, we're trying to photograph Donald a lot and shoot videos of him before he goes.  He's growing into quite a handsome cockerel, and he still likes to sit on my lap!

That's it for now!

6 comments:

  1. Is it a real grape or a weed seed pod? Looks sort of like a week that I have seen.

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  2. It's a real grape! It came off of a bunch that we bought at the grocery store. It looked totally normal on the inside when Alan cut it up.

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  3. Congrats to being quoted in the magazine and the photo as well Amy.
    Funny looking grape for sure, it looks more like a tomatoe me thinks he he he...

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  4. That grape is bizarre Amy. Perhaps we need an album of the Bizarre and mutant from the garden in here.
    Congratulations on your magazine mention and the photo.
    I look forward to seeing your lovely Cockerel. Amy you make truly are a GG..well done.

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  5. Thank you!

    Yes, it does look like a tomato but I swear that it's a grape :-)

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  6. Oh! Having an album of bizarre and mutant things from the garden is a great idea!

    Thank you :-)

    I'm thinking that when my pullets (young hens) lay their first eggs (any day now!) I'll write a comprehensive blog post beginning with our adoption of the one day old chicks, to building the chicken tractor, through our heart break of having to give away Donald, our kitties interactions with the chickens, and then finally our first eggs!

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