Curious Creature

The zucchini plant is producing nicely.  I cut off two more zucchini today so that makes 4 total so far.  I also picked 2 more cucumbers (also a total of 4).  Both plants are really going crazy. 

I’m still waiting on the tomato, pepper, radish, and carrots.  I suspect the pepper and tomato will be good to go by the end of the month.   The radish and carrots I’m not sure.  I just don’t know how long they’re supposed to take.

So I might be the last person on the planet who knows this information but I was really upset that the bags don’t have the recycling logo on them. I went and looked it up on their web site and the bags are code 4 (polyethylene plastic).

On a similar note I also found that most baby bottles are recyclable. The problem? Most of these items are not showing the recycling number. How are people supposed to know to put these items in the recycling bin when its time without any easy to see indicator?

We have been tossing out lots of Ziploc bags in the past because we just didn’t know they could be recycled. I know now but a lot of plastic could have been kept out of the garbage dump had Ziploc put the logo on their damn bags.

Now we just need to figure out a way to reuse the bags more (or better yet not use them at all).

The garden is growing like crazy.  Aside from the green pepper plant I had to pull everything else is going great.  

This is the first year in awhile that we decided to have a garden.   I didn’t do all that much prep work this year and the spot has been sitting full of weeds for a couple of years.  At the end of last summer I doused the whole area with Round Up.  Not exactly organic gardening to be sure but it all of last Fall and Winter to sit.   I planted this Spring on 5/19 the following:

• Carrots – 2 rows
• Peppers – Orange and Green (the green hadn’t grown after a month in the ground so I yanked it)
• Tomatoes – 1 plant
• Pumpkin (Jack o Lantern) – many seeds but thinned down to the best looking plant per the seed instructions
• Green Beans  – Bush – 2 plants
• Cucumber – 2 plants
• Zucchini – 2 plants
• Onions – Yellow/sweet – 6 total
• Italian Basil – one plant
• Sage – one plant
• French Thyme – one plant
• Rosemary
• Radish – lots of seeds thinned out to about 20 plants

This is my blog about trying to live a sustainable lifestyle. I’ve been wanting to write about sustainability issues for a long time now and, as geeky as it may sound, I was pretty inspired to finally get down to it after watching the Live Earth concert.

As for Live Earth, it was a great concert. I sincerely hope that it helps to really raise awareness about global warming and the climate crisis we are facing right now. Pat Stump, lead singer from the band Fall Out Boy, had a very good point to make when he said that politics really needs to be removed from the issue because it truly is not a political issue but a human one. We simply cannot move forward doing things the way they have been done.