It is really amazing what a 32 square foot garden can produce. This year our garden went wild in greens. We planted several leafy lettuces, chard, collards, kale, two kinds of spinach, arugula, bib lettuce, romaine lettuce and radishes. The more traditional stuff is 3 kinds of yellow squash, zucchini, golden beets, carrots, lemon and [...]
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We planted some collards, kale, radish and salad spinach this year for the first time and, even though we planted each in a 1 foot square plot, we got a really good crop. We harvested the salad spinach last week, the radishes two weeks ago and since and the collards for the first time this [...]
We had to pull our zucchini, carrots, peppers, chard, spinach, arugula, and mesclun before the big freeze and snow the weekend before T-Day, so we used as much for the big day as possible. This Carnivale squash was a beauty! We’ll try to grow it next year in a bigger place. It was really “squashy” [...]
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We are getting alot of greens out of our garden still. I’ve made sauteed greens, stir-frys, salads, rice/lentil/greens combinations, daal and was running out of ideas. I found this recipe in my recipe stash. I think it is 20 years old and I think it came from Southern Living magazine. I did change it somewhat. [...]
Well, I thought I’d start out with a shot of our raised bed SQFT garden. It’s been great this year. We have green ice lettuce, arugula, mesculin, spinach, and chard in the first box, four bell peppers (green, lemon (got one so far and 3 babies are growing), orange and tiny red), broccoli rabe, italian [...]
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I had a most prolific pear tomato plant that really produced in September/October, but it got too cool to ripen the toms. I pulled all the tomatoes off last week and let them sit to maybe ripen a bit before I turned them into jam. Boy, did they turn out wonderful! See the red pepper [...]
It has turned cold and rainy here in the great PNW and last night I decided to make a favorite at our house, meatloaf stuffed peppers. We got some beautiful large bell peppers at the Oly Farmer’s Market last weekend and had a lovely dinner with our own homegrown salad of spicy arugula, chard and [...]
We have an abundance of zucchini at the moment. I have made zucchini sauteed, zucchini thinly sliced chips for dips, in salads, in soups, shredded in bread and cake. Zucchini is a very prolific plant and loves to reproduce! I love the various eggplant baked dishes like parmesan or moussaka, so I decided to make [...]
I saw the most beautiful yearling today. He had about 12″ and two tiny branches on his antlers. I was standing in the kitchen looking out the patio door and he came into the yard next to the house. He looked at ME-I looked at HIM. Wow, what a moment. He really was beautiful and [...]
We have so many cucumbers on the vine right now! YUM! I love growing food this time of year. The weather is so mild and beautiful and everything is so vividly green. I love the tiny baby cukes with beautiful yellow flowers and the fat, fuzzy, black bumblebees that pollinate them! Here is a good, [...]