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In my garden I have tomatoes, eggplant, mint and aloe veras growing.

Hi, I have growing an Indian Food. I Love so much Indian Food.

Pine nuts, from pinyon pine trees, are also an edible and delicious source of food that grows wild.

Does anyone have pinyon pines growing near? Native Americans held these nutritious nuts in high value. The gathering of the pine nuts was a traditional and very productive time of the year.

Pine nuts are an excellent source of protein. They are usually roasted in the oven or can be roasted on the stove top in a cast iron skillet. They can be eaten raw, but roasting brings out the flavor to make them more tasty.

Picked the first tomatoes yesterday they were so good. I have been waiting for enough raspberries to make something, caught the little girl next door picking and eating as fast as she could. my first raspberries I knocked on the window and scared her a bit but that was all. Children will be children.

Yes you can't stop children from playing around in your garden. It's like their favorite hiding place.

I have some volunteer bamboo shoots (yum), horehound (medicinal) and foxglove (not for eating, but i wonder if i could make some kind of natural household poison from it or something).

I remember my father feeding me horehound when I was a kid, I remember the taste. I am sure it would poison anything I love bamboo shoots!

I have a bunch of two feet tall weeks (seriously) first year I haven't been able to get the drive weeded. I just tried salt and water. It is too far to any ground areas to leech nor did I put it on thick enough to run. Will let you know what happens. If it works, and if I find out for sure it won't hurt anything, but the weeds I am going to try it in the big sprayer and hope it doesn't eat the rubber, plastic, or metal parts.

I am going to start my new potato tire mound in a few days. I have the tire, the soil, some newspaper, and a bunch of soft little potatoes.

I do have to figure out where to put the mound. Since I bought this property i have been focused on building up the soil. But since i have all these tiny old potatoes right now, I think planting them would be a decent step.

Should the mound go in the most sun?

I am having trouble finding mint seeds in any of the garden stores around here. Weird! I'd love to spray them around the yard - they would love all this rain.

I ended up buying mint plants and setting them in various places around the yard. Both regular peppermint and chocolate mint.

Right now volunteer mustard greens are coming up everywhere and i am making use of them.