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 [...]
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, fresh [...]
Here are pictures of our SF garden. We did have fun making these mobile 2′X4′ raised boxes full of Mel’s Mix. They are easy for us old farts to move about on our tiny property and raised to let the rain drain thru. Our plants seem to like them with the chicken wire covers as [...]
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This is my first year of urban gardening since I was a mere pup. I’m surprised to find that, in many ways, it’s not any easier than the “real” gardens of rural areas, if only because there’s so much more to do in an urban environment (like dealing with rats [!] and feral cats).
In other [...]
Every day I read several discussion boards on various subjects, and lately it seems that all of them, no matter what their subject matter, are revolving around economic discussions and how best to survive the coming zombies.
One woman posted an interesting idea today: she’s planning to offer gardening setup services to people who [...]
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To celebrate temperatures above 40 degrees, I’ve begun making seed lists for my 2009 garden(s). Here’s my list so far:
Bronze Fennel
Cream Sausage Tomato
Trucker’s Favorite Pink Tomato
Scarlet Runner Bean
Black Beauty Zucchini
Black Cumin
Bee Balm
Culinary Sage
Thyme
Aztec Sun
Purple Coneflower
Yugoslavian Red Lettuce
Brandywine Tomato
I usually make this over two days. The first day is the chicken down to the dicing stage and the second day is cooking everything else. I put in everything! I remember my Mother making this for her church suppers. It is soooo good! AND you can freeze it or eat on it for [...]